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Kenneth Baker

November 2023

  • Backs of children sitting in classroom with hands up as teachers stands at white board

    Ofsted’s ‘simplistic judgments’ no longer fit for purpose, schools experts warn

    Former ministers and leaders agree that inspections in England resulting in one-word summaries need to be reviewed

July 2021

  • BTec students work on a car engine

    Kenneth Baker: plan to scrap BTecs is an act of vandalism

    Former Tory education secretary criticises ‘streamlining’ of vocational and technical qualifications in England

February 2020

  • A groups of GCSE pupils sit their exams

    Our ideologically driven curriculum fails the test

    Letters: The recent editorial about the new GCSEs raises readers’ fears about an increasingly restrictive programme in schools

October 2018

  • Greater Manchester university technical college

    Half of university technical college students drop out, report finds

    Education Policy Institute says UTCs – part of free schools changes – are ineffective

May 2018

  • Lesbian & Gay Pride, London, 1983.

    From the Guardian archive
    London lesbian and gay centre refused grant – archive, 1985

    4 May 1985: Kenneth Baker had not judged that the intended users of the social centre constituted a group of the population who suffered social discrimination

December 2015

  • Children are as gripped by books as ever.

    From the Guardian archive
    Reading allowed - television encourages children's reading

    The Guardian, 30 December 1986: The important thing is to get children reading, what they read is secondary

September 2014

  • Kenneth Baker

    Curb Scottish MPs' voting rights after no vote, say senior Tories

    No vote would make reduction in Scottish MPs' ability to vote on England-only legislation inevitable, says Kenneth Baker

August 2014

  • Roger Law with Major And Thatcher puppets

    Spitting Image - in pictures

    We take a look at Spitting image puppets from the famous satire created by Roger Law

October 2013

  • Kenneth Baker Margaret Thatcher

    Former education secretary attacks Michael Gove

    Lord Baker says Gove is basing all his policies on his own experience and says Cameron is 'not interested' in education

June 2013

  • Nick Clegg

    Former home secretaries urge Clegg to drop snooper's charter opposition

    Labour's Jack Straw, David Blunkett and Alan Johnson and Tory Lord Baker says bill is vital tool in fight against terrorism

February 2013

  • Student rally in Lambeth over education minister Kenneth Baker's plans for student top-up loans

    From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 16 February 1989: Palely loitering

    Originally published in the Guardian on 16 February 1989: Students, banks and the private sector are all against Kenneth Baker's plans for student loans

January 2013

  • Kenneth Baker: ‘The biggest mistake of my political career was becoming party chairman.’

    The G2 interview
    Kenneth Baker: 'People told me to abandon Thatcher but I stood by her'

    The former Tory education secretary transformed the school system in the 80s. Now he has written a new book which proposes more radical changes. And Michael Gove won't like them. He talks to Decca Aitkenhead

March 2011

  • Kenneth Baker’s vision is to set up 100 university technology colleges by 2015

    Are university technical colleges the next big thing?

    Peter Wilby speaks to Kenneth Baker, who has an ambitious plan to revolutionise education with new university technical colleges

September 2008

  • Graham Sutherland's portrait of Churchill, which was burned by his wife

    Political heroes
    The Tories' greatest hero: Winston Churchill

    Kenneth Baker

    Kenneth Baker: Above all, it was Churchill's judgment that set him head and shoulders above his peers, and above all other leaders

March 2008

  • The legacy of Blue Ken

    Twenty years ago to the day, debate was raging about teaching to the test. How come Kenneth Baker's education reforms have stood the test of time, asks Will Woodward

January 2007

  • Why the law should bite back

    Kenneth Baker

    Kenneth Baker: My Dangerous Dogs Act should never have been watered down. Now it needs strengthening.

May 2004

  • Chancellors must earn their keep

    Kenneth Baker

    Kenneth Baker: British universities need to touch their ex-students for cash, US-style.

October 2000

  • Country codas

    John Mullan on The Faber Book of Landscape Poetry edited by ex-minister Kenneth Baker

October 1999

  • He let the bastards grind him down

  • He let the bastards grind him down

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