Francis Beckett
Articles by Francis Beckett
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Politics
NS Special Report - Comprehensives: a minute to midnight
- 14 October 2002
Do you remember voting for the return of selection at 11? Well, it's coming all the same. Francis Beckett tracks the slow decline of one of Labour's great ideals
Politics
Welcome to your local school, plc
- 16 September 2002
Ministers want teachers to become entrepreneurs, and sell services to each other
Politics
Private profit, public squalor
- 15 July 2002
Why, in 2002, does a school have rain pouring through its rotting window frames? Francis Beckett reports
Economy
Why sweat? Be a worm instead
- 13 May 2002
Management gurus claim you need the skills of a boxer to succeed. Wrong: a toady's will do. By Francis Beckett
Politics
Great Western rip-off
- 08 April 2002
Transport crisis - A new report reveals the full horror of what happened to our railways
Society
Why teachers are so ungrateful
- 01 April 2002
Labour has indeed poured money into the schools, but it has done so in a way that provokes more unrest than ever. Francis Beckett reports
