Programme

CONSERVATIVE EDUCATION SOCIETY

NEXT EVENT:

Nick Gibb to speak at CES Meeting

We are very pleased that Nick Gibb, MP, Minister of State for Schools, will be speaking to CES members on Tuesday 24^th January 2012.

The meeting will be at 6.00pm in Committee Room 20 at the Palace of Westminster, and will last about an hour and a half.

Just a reminder that entry is via the main Visitors’ Entrance, and that it is possible that there will be a queue waiting to go through security, so you should arrive in sufficient time.

We apologise for the very short notice of this announcement, but we have been having internet difficulties for the last ten days.  We had previously advised our members and friends of the meeting by e-mail.

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RECENT MEETINGS INCLUDED:

Our Annual General Meeting held in July 2011, at the House of Lords, followed by a keynote speech from our President, The Lord Lingfield Kt DL. 

Lord Lingfield is perhaps better known as Sir Robert Balchin, and has a distinguished career in education policy and practice.  He was Chairman of the Grant Maintained Schools Trust, chaired a number of party policy groups whilst we were in opposition, and was asked by the Prime Minister to accept a peerage and thereby add to the education team in the House of Lords.

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Jonathan Hill, now Lord Hill of Oareford CBE, spoke to a meeting at the House of Lords.   Lord Hill is Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Schools, and was Political Secretary and head of Prime Minister John Major’s Political Office from 1992 to 1994.   His subject was “Academies and Free Schools Policy”.

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