Happy Christmas

Happy Christmas from the Conservative Education Society. Have a good break and a peaceful New Year.

AGM elects new Officer Team

The Conservative Education Society Annual General Meeting, held on 13 July, elected a new Officer Team. Chairman, Robert Pettigrew, was re-elected, and there are three new officers, Phil King, Richard Tyson, and Vernon de Maynard.  This is the full list:- Chairman:                                          Robert Pettigrew Vice Chairmen:                                 James McMurray  and  Phil King Hon Treasurer:                                 Chris Everest Hon Secretary:                                 Richard Tyson [...]

CES AGM and TALK BY THE LORD LINGFIELD

CONSERVATIVE EDUCATION SOCIETY NEXT EVENT: ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING to be held on Wednesday 13th July 2011, at 6.00pm In Lords Committee Room 3, House of Lords, London SW1 0PW (via main visitors’ entrance to Palace of Westminster)     After the AGM, our President, The Lord Lingfield Kt DL, will give his annual keynote speech. Lord [...]

Happy New Year

from CES to all members and friends.   May 2011 be successful for us all as the government’s education policies begin to bear fruit.

CES President is now Lord Lingfield

We are delighted to record that on Friday our President, Sir Robert Balchin, was introduced into the House of Lords as The Lord Lingfield, Kt, DL.   Bob will be a Conservative working peer, specializing in education, and we know that he will do an excellent job. Many congratulations on your peerage, Lord Lingfield!

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Good luck to all our Candidates

We wish the very best of luck to all members, supporters and friends standing for election on 6th May  -  in the General election, of course, but also in local government elections.

New Year – New hope for Education

So here we are in 2010, General Election Year. All being well, we shall be celebrating a Conservative Government, and the implementation of Conservative education policies, and that’s new hope for our education service.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.   [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]