Nicola Morgan

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May.2015Nicky Morgan accepted a donation of £3,220 from corporate investigator Paul Mercer in 2013. Mercer has been paid by large firms including BAE to monitor political campaign groups....
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  • Andrea Minichiello Williams has also claimed that Education Minister Nicky Morgan was playing into the hands of a gay “Trojan Horse” by backing campaigns to stop homophobic bullying in schools, saying: Highlighting a special category of ‘homophobic’ bullying creates a trojan horse for promoting the normalisation of sexual activity outside marriage between a man and a woman. FreeThinker.co.uk

Articles

  • Oct.02.2017: Iain Dale’s 100 most influential people on the Right 2017. Former Secretary of State for Education. Theresa May and Morgan do not get on. Never have. So Morgan’s sacking came as little surprise to her or others. She quickly became the most outspoken critics of the Prime Minister on the Tory benches. However, she’s been careful not to overegg the criticism and of late has been positively loyal. Almost. Iain Dale, Conservative Home.
  • Oct.03.2016: Iain Dale’s 100 most influential people on the Right. Former Secretary of State for Education. Theresa May and Morgan do not get on. Never have. So Morgan’s sacking came as little surprise to her or others. She has already become the most outspoken critics of the Prime Minister on the Tory benches. Time will tell if this is a good move on her part or not. Iain Dale, Conservative Home.
  • Mar.31.2016: The final frontier for privatisation: schools. As in the NHS, the govt’s structural changes to schools are just the start of a massive privatisation process. UK education secretary, Nicky Morgan said "The dramatic expansion of the academies programme’ represents a ‘dramatic shift of power from the old educational establishment’." PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is heavily involved in education system reform, and has put a figure on EdTech. It estimates that the ‘connected education’, or ed-tech, market ‘will grow at around 32% annually over the next 5 years and, by 2020, will be worth almost $446bn globally.’ At a private education reform gathering in 2012, hosted by James O'Shaughnessy, a PwC representative outlined a service it had developed to partner with groups of newly created academies to provide back-office functions, which it called a ‘schools solution for sharing’. Unlike public sector ‘sharing solutions’, however, this service would be provided on a for-profit basis. ‘PwC isn’t spending all this money for the hell of it,’ said the PwC rep regarding the investment the firm had made in developing the service: ‘We see this as a great opportunity.’) A publicly-controlled school sector is seen as a barrier to technology, whereas the private sector is seen as a much more willing buyer. The solution is clear; push for privatisation. Like the structural changes to the NHS, the govt’s school reforms will hand more control to the private sector. Across both sectors, increasingly it will be unaccountable private interests that get to say how these £multi-billion budgets are allocated. This is not how it was pitched to us. The NHS reforms were sold to us as empowering GPs. ‘The whole point of our NHS reforms,’ said David Cameron, is ‘to put the power in the hands of local doctors, so that they make decisions based on what is good for their local area.’ Likewise, Nicky Morgan said last week: ‘We need to put our trust into the hands of the people that know best how to run our schools – the teachers – and the academy system does just that.’ Tamasin Cave, SpinWatch.

References

  1. ^ Cabinet minister accepted donation from corporate spy. Johnny McDevitt, rob Evans, Meirion Jones, The Guardian, May.2015.