Dave Lister
Dave Lister is an ex-teacher, trade union activist and governor support officer. He is a member of Brent CLP and Chartist EB.
Seen but not heard
Dave Lister on the backward ideas animating the chair of the new Social Mobility Commission
Jewish Voice stifled?
Dave Lister calls for a halt to the purge of Jews from Labour
Tories caught out on schools catch-up
Dave Lister on how penny pinching provoked the resignation of top government commissar
Why Black children fail
Dave Lister reflects on Small Axe's episode on education
New times, old delusions
Dave Lister on simplistic internationalism
Schooling in a time of Covid
Dave Lister on a litany of broken promises, planning failures and continuing safety anxieties
Uproar in schools
Dave Lister looks at the rolling disaster that is the government’s schools and exams policy
School curriculum – a multicultural past
Former teachers Dave Lister and Mike Davis reflect on different times
Don’t Stop the War Coalition
Dave Lister finds that Stop the War's silence and equivocation on Syria raises questions over its peace ambitions
Schools out for summer?
Dave Lister calls out a rushed and ill-prepared Cabinet decision to reopen primary schools
What do we mean by a National Education Service?
Dave Lister says content and funding must go hand in hand