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School Wars: debate hosted by the National Education Trust
Posted by: melissabenn on: January 31, 2012
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 Upcoming event ‘Government education reforms will lead to a lack of accountability and greater inequality’, Melissa Benn will say at the forthcoming ‘School Wars’ debate. The debate takes place in Islington on Thursday 9 February and is being organised by the National Education Trust, the leading education charity. It will be led by Melissa [...]
In a very good cause…….
Posted by: melissabenn on: October 21, 2011
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I will be hosting a fundraising evening on December 1st in aid of the Maya Centre, which provides therapy to low income women. The evening will feature some of our finest writers – Jill Dawson, Margaret Drabble, Helen Simpson and Sarah Waters – reading from their short story collections. Tickets selling fast. Please come along.
School Wars: upcoming events
Posted by: melissabenn on: August 26, 2011
Some of the events I will be doing over the next few weeks and months. September 21, 2011 / The Court Room, Glaziers Hall Melissa Benn: Comprehensive School Education – Policy Mistake, Lost Ideal or Model for the Future? Part of the University of Leicester ‘The Floor is Yours’ debate series September 25, 2011 / [...]
On Burma and Bigotgate……..
Posted by: melissabenn on: April 29, 2010
Read Melissa Benn’s latest pieces on the web. Further comment on ‘bigotgate’ in Public Finance, and a piece on one of Burma’s most celebrated activists, the poet and comedian Zarganar, recently sentenced to thirty five years for criticising the government’s handling of cyclone Nargis in 2008, on the Guardian’s Liberty Central section of Comment is [...]
Election matters, and why this election matters so much
Posted by: melissabenn on: April 28, 2010
Two excellent pieces today on separate aspects of the election campaign. Francis Gilbert has written a cogent piece on Comment is Free on why Tory policies for schools will spell disaster for our education system. In the main paper Natasha Walter analyses the deeper reasons for the absence of women from the front line of [...]
Check out Event 29!
Posted by: melissabenn on: October 18, 2009
Below, the latest link to one of Melissa’s December book events.
Ending rejection: news from Labour Party Conference
Posted by: melissabenn on: September 30, 2009
Spoke last night at full and very lively fringe meeting at Labour Party conference on the importance of ending selection or, as we in Comprehensive Future call it, rejection at 11 plus.The other speakers were Vanessa Everett, the head of both a comprehensive school and a small secondary modern in Kent, and Aaron Porter, Vice [...]
Maya centre meeting: update
Posted by: melissabenn on: August 9, 2009
For those of you following the campaign to promote government funding for long term psychodynamic therapy as opposed to merely offering everyone quick fix CBT, particularly for those on low incomes, you might be interested in a rather lyrical summary of aspects of the spring meeting, which I chaired, at the Houses of Parliament, and [...]
Breaking through the silence
Posted by: melissabenn on: June 18, 2009
Please come to a special event, Breaking Through the Silence, put on by the English PEN Writers in Prison Committee and JAM, an organisation set up to nurture, promote and perform new music in the UK, in support of imprisoned and persecuted writers throughout the world, but particularly highlighting the situation of Aung San Suu [...]
The conundrum of Caroline Flint
Posted by: melissabenn on: June 7, 2009
For the moment, I am only going to set out a couple of questions currently buzzing round my brain about the Caroline Flint affair, in particular the matter of those photos coupled with her angry comment that Gordon Brown used her and other women in the Cabinet as ‘window dressing.’ Yesterday I had at least [...]
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