By neglecting education, the 1974 Labour government failed as surely as on the picket lines of Grunwick. — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
In the hands of great school leaders, Teach First can make a spectacular difference. — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
I think universities are one of the great civilising forces of life. — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
Teachers need to have the capacity to spot those that are struggling early on and intervene. — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
Teach First is uniquely placed to help universities broaden the social background of their student intake. — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
Academies place a high premium on local community engagement. — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
Apprenticeships must be more than a re-branding of in-work training if they are going to have a substantive impact on the future… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
What most teachers need is very strong leadership and motivation, and when it comes to recruiting teachers you want to have the… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
Universities should be supporting Teach First, actively promoting it among their students and financially supporting them to join the scheme, using a… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
I'm clear that new schools should only go in areas where there is a need for places. I'm equally clear that we… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
I'm prepared to argue with some of my Labour colleagues about doing what it takes to see that every school has the… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
Bruce Liddington, who has died aged 70, was the most exotic creature in the Department for Education in the 2000s. In a… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
For decades, British governments - including the Blair-Brown government in which I was an education minister - have done a good job… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
Tests account for only a couple of hours within the six years of a child's primary education, but parents expect to know… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
Parents who've not had an education themselves find it hard to explain to their children what a decent education involves, and I… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
In Germany, apprentices undergo a final examination in the vocational school and an oral examination and practical test in the workplace. The… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
Education for all up to 18, and lifelong learning beyond. That is a vision true to Ruskin - the man, the college,… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
I'm clear that new schools should only go in areas where there is a need for places. I'm equally clear that we need those… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share
Brexit has always been an impossible project, except at the price of massive self-harm. — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share
Brexit is not, thankfully, a question of war. But, like Iraq, Brexit is an act of unprovoked self-harm and a massive strategic mistake that… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share
Teach First is uniquely placed to help universities broaden the social background of their student intake. — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share
Good government has essentially broken down in the face of Brexit. — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share
Britain's railways don't need to be wholly nationalised and they don't need to be operated solely by private companies. Both of these myopias harm… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share
The motorway network helps bind Britain together. It remains an extraordinary achievement, making a huge contribution to our economy and our way of life. — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share
It is clear to me that when London has expanded successfully in the past, there has always been a plan. — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share
I thought I'd left politics when Labour lost the 2010 election and I went off and ran a thinktank for two years and founded… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share
The partial exception to our London-centric state institutions is the monarchy, which has always had peripatetic tendencies. — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share
I'm prepared to argue with some of my Labour colleagues about doing what it takes to see that every school has the governance needed… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share
By managing the speed of traffic and opening the hard shoulder as a new running lane in times of congestion, the M42 pilot showed… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share
The SDP's founder, Roy Jenkins, was my hero and later mentor. — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share
We shouldn't leave the E.U. until we have trade protection at least as good. — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share
Until the late 1950s Britain's leaders were slow to appreciate the social and economic value of motorways. The first stretch of German Autobahn had… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share
