Weaponising education: Tories attack schools while Labour clashes with universities

Both parties are grappling with their approaches to education as the election campaign heats up.

(Photo By David Cameron and Ed Miliband are both "weaponising" education. Photo: Getty)

As the election campaign heats up, both parties are grappling with their approaches to the area of policy-making and public spending that never fails to have emotions running high: education.

While David Cameron is making a speech today in which he will promise a “war” on mediocrity in schools, Ed Miliband will be trying to work out a way of defending his party from attacks from the university sector on his hinted plan to cut tuition fees.