Officers re-elected at AGM

At the Annual General Meeting of CES held this summer, Chairman, Robert Pettigrew, was re-elected for a second year.   Vice-Chairman, James McMurray, and Hon Treasurer, Chris Everest, were also re-elected.

Modern day Biggles flies into tree

Good friend of CES, Vince Hagedorn, ended up in hospital in Scotland after an amazing escape when his aeroplane crash landed.
Vince who spearheaded the groundbreaking mentoring scheme at Chelmsford Prison, which resulted in men who had never learnt to read and write being able to write to their families and to be trained to mentor [...]

CES Meeting – Monday 11 May

REMINDER OF TOMORROW’S MEETING
Monday 11 May
6.30pm 
House of Commons, Committee Room;  please ask at reception for Room number.  
Speaker:  Maria Miller MP, Shadow Minister for the Family in the Children, Schools and Families front bench team,
who will be speaking on Early Years.
 

New Date for Michael Gove meeting

We very much regret that Michael Gove has been forced to postpone his visit to CES.  
The Shadow Secretary of State for Children, Schools & Families was to speak to us at the House of Commons on Tuesday 28th April.   Unfortunately he now has other shadow ministerial duties which take him away from the Commons on [...]

Fraser Mitchell – we will miss him

We have learnt with great sadness of the death of Fraser Mitchell, our Vice President.
Fraser had been having many health problems, with walking, with heart problems, and with his breathing which had been diagnosed as being the result of inhalation of asbestos.    He had remained very cheerful, although all the problems were getting worse.   He [...]

New Year Message from the Chairman

Happy New Year to all Conservative Education Society members and friends! 
We have an exciting programme in preparation for the coming year, and look forward to seeing the Society grow and develop further as we move closer towards the next General Election. During 2008, we have strengthened our links with the respective front-bench teams, and have [...]

We welcome Robert Halfon’s Essay

We are delighted to publish on the CES Blog this most interesting “School Essay” from Robert Halfon.
Robert is the Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Harlow, (a critical marginal where he only needs a handful of extra votes to bring off a spectacular gain), and he has drawn on experiences of Harlow schools in what he has [...]

New Chairman for CNES

The Conservative National Education Society has had its Annual General Meeting, and there is a change of officers.
Having come to the end of her three year term of office, Tricia Gurnett stood down as Chairman, and has been appointed a Vice President.
The new Chairman is Robert Pettigrew.   Robert works at the Houses of Parliament as [...]

Diary Dates – 2 House of Commons Meetings

 
Two CNES meetings coming up at the House of Commons:-
Tuesday 22nd April
6.30pm
Room 2A, Committee Corridor
The Baroness
Verma
(Front Bench Education Spokesman in the Lords)
on Education from the Lords’ Perspective
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Tuesday 17th June
6.30pm
Room W1, off Westminster Hall
Adam Afriyie MP
(Shadow Minister for Innovation)
on How Innovation Relates to Education in Schools and HE and FE

The Public Services Improvement Policy Group Report on Education

The Conservative Party’s Public Services Improvement Policy Group has now published its report, which is open for discussion, and will be debated at the Conservative Conference at Blackpool.
This is the summary of the part dealing with education. 
Restoring Pride in our Public Services  -  Things Everyone Should Know
 
 *  43% of pupils leave primary school without having reached the required [...]