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Kenneth Baker
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Maths should be split in two, says Lord Baker
Writing ahead of a major Tes investigation into the new-look GCSEs, a former education secretary plots more reform
24 May 2018
Kenneth Baker: ‘We need design, art, music and drama in the heart of a new baccalaureate. The current EBacc doesn’t work’
21st-century pupils need a core of academic subjects supplemented by technical and creative skills, argues the former Conservative education secretary
28 September 2016
Legacy of a woman who ‘liked a fight’
Tory former education secretary Kenneth Baker recalls the road to enduring reform he travelled with Margaret Thatcher
12 April 2013
Legacy of a woman who ‘liked a fight’
Tory former education secretary Kenneth Baker recalls the road to enduring reform he travelled with Margaret Thatcher
12 April 2013
Why the government EBac is not enough
Our young people need vocational skills just as much as academic results, argues Tory former education secretary Kenneth Baker
14 December 2012