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	Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis, originally Andreas Adonis (born 22 February 1963) is a United Kingdom Minister of State in the Department for Education and Skills.
		Adonis' previous role in the Number 10 Policy Unit is generally accepted as having driven most of Labour's key education reforms since the 1997 general election - most notably the programme of city academies.
		The move first to promote Adonis as a Minister of State and then to nominate him as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Education and Skills is said to have followed the recognition that Adonis had played already a major role in the Department's policy outline, even in David Blunkett's days.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Andrew_Adonis (1811 words)

	Andrew Adonis
		Adonis has been known for admiring the German school system despite its extremely bad results in all OECD PISA studies.
		In September 2004 Adonis was rumoured by the media to have been heavily involved in the resignation of the then Secretary of State for Education and Skills, Estelle Morris, when they failed to work effectively together.
		Adonis has never been elected but is said to have - despite his duty only to give advice - great policy influence (on education) and ambition.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Andrew_Adonis (514 words)

	Encyclopedia: Andrew Adonis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		An academic, Adonis is generally credited with being behind most of Labour's key educational policies since coming to power in the 1997 general election.
		Lady Adonis is a graduate of Jesus College who has worked in public relations and marketing ; she grew up in Tunbridge Wells, but her family has Welsh origins.
		The prospect of Adonis' peerage and ministerhood was described by Roy Hattersley, former Deputy Leader of the Labour Party and lifelong advocate of comprehensive schooling, as an example of Tony Blair's "kamikaze attacks on its [the Labour Party's] most cherished values" and that the appointment "wins high marks for [its] arrogant insensitivity" [13] ( http://politics.guardian.co.uk/election/comment/0,15803,1479616,00.html).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Andrew-Adonis (2544 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| Election 2005 \| Profile: Andrew Adonis
		Andrew Adonis is often described as a "key aide" of Tony Blair.
		As a former head of the Downing Street policy unit, Mr Adonis was instrumental in shaping the public service reforms that are so close to the prime minister's heart.
		As a result of this close identification with controversial reforms, Mr Adonis has become a hate figure for some on the left of the Labour party.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/uk_politics/vote_2005/frontpage/4530847.stm (342 words)

	Guardian \| The reshuffle you may have missed
		Because of that it is difficult to postpone rejoicing at the evident demotion of Andrew Adonis.
		The reassignment of Andrew Adonis to "a cross-cutting policy role" - clearly junior to his previous status - should be greeted with only modified rapture.
		Adonis is the architect of both the assault on comprehensive education and the introduction of top-up fees.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4748517-103677,00.html (769 words)

	EducationGuardian.co.uk \| News crumb \| New kid on the block
		Tony Blair has brought in his former education advisor Andrew Adonis as a junior minister in the latest education reshuffle.
		Adonis is certainly a key thinker, trusted by the prime minister.
		Meanwhile other senior education players suggest that Adonis's "bogeyman" status is a product of the backroom job he's had and that giving him a job out in the open will make him more accountable and is proper recognition the power he already has.
	education.guardian.co.uk /schools/story/0,5500,1480554,00.html (566 words)

	EducationGuardian.co.uk \| Schools special reports \| Profile: Andrew Adonis
		Rumours flew at the weekend over the possible appointment of Downing St education advisor Andrew Adonis as schools minister.
		Andrew Adonis is something of a bogeyman to many in the education establishment and the Labour backbenches.
		But other senior education players suggest that his "bogeyman" status is a product of the backroom job he's had and that giving him a job out in the open would make him more accountable and would properly recognise the power he already has.
	education.guardian.co.uk /policy/story/0,15572,1479874,00.html (472 words)

	Politics \| Andrew Adonis: elitism jibe denied
		It is not hard to see why Andrew Adonis makes a handy hate figure for critics of Tony Blair and the New Labour project.
		Mr Adonis is seen as the man who promoted last year's variable university tuition fees - which brought Mr Blair within five votes of defeat in the Commons - and who "forced" Estelle Morris to resign as education secretary.
		Mr Adonis is delighted that applications to be secondary teachers are 70% up, that billions will be pumped into the under-fives, that exam results are getting better.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5112991-107979,00.html (413 words)

	New Statesman - Which of these two men is the real education secretary? (not the one you think)
		Both settled in Islington, and Adonis still lives there: he was one of the governors of the George Orwell School who oversaw its change of name to Islington Arts and Media School and the disastrous appointment of a superhead, Torsten Friedag.
		Adonis was an Oxford Fellow for three years and, for a time, a Liberal Democrat councillor in the city.
		At the Labour conference in Brighton, a Labour MP told Adonis that condemnation of comprehensives (which are attended by some 90 per cent of the nation's 11- to 16-year-olds) was unhelpful.
	www.newstatesman.com /200010160007 (1774 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Comeback for Hughes and Hunt
		Andrew Adonis, a key Downing Street policy adviser, is widely distrusted in the Labour Party because of his background in the SDP.
		Although Mr Adonis headed the policy unit at one stage, he has always specialised in education and was one of the main proponents of specialist schools and city academies.
		Mr Adonis is being given a peerage so that he can serve in the Government from the Lords.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/10/nelec110.xml (611 words)

	Mirror.co.uk - News - Kevin Maguire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		ADONIS MUSCLES IN ANDREW Adonis is a wonker, a policy wonker*.
		Adonis lacked the bottle to seek selection as a Labour candidate so he should be left in the shadows.
		Adonis also champions donating huge dollops of public cash to businessmen, to open privately run "city academies".
	www.mirror.co.uk /news/kevinmaguire/tm_column_date=11052005-name_index.html (2334 words)

	Adonis: Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Adonis was speaking, but so fast and animatedly that Andrew's broken version of the language seemed elementary.
		Andrew was flabbergasted the color completely drained from his face and his hands clawing at the edge of the table as if it would give him his lost composure.
		Andrew was just staring at Adonis like he was some six headed alien, and poor Laura was left baffled and signing the check.
	smallstories.whymestudios.com /adonisstory.php (7470 words)

	Results: June 13, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Andrew eyes widen, then his face turns to a scowl as he nods his head.
		Andrew steps up and as the ref tells him not to hit with closed fists, Shaun kicks him in the knee.
		Andrew slams his fist into Shaun's chest, and uses it to slowly push himself up to his knees.
	ufafed.org /MondayMadness/results/06-13-05.htm (7920 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Education \| Adviser Adonis made a minister (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The most controversial appointment is Downing Street policy adviser Andrew Adonis being made a peer and a junior education minister.
		His appointment was welcomed by Ms Kelly, who commended Mr Adonis as "a man of immense intellect, passion, commitment to the cause of education and social justice".
		This was dismissed by senior Labour MP Barry Sheerman, who said that the appointment of Mr Adonis would be to the most junior ministerial post and would support the education team with an in-depth knowledge of the subject.
	newswm.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/education/4530433.stm (678 words)

	Observer \| Feud with Blair aide 'finished Morris'
		Rather than go to war with Adonis over the issue, and after being weakened by the row over A levels and worried about media intrusion, she decided to quit.
		Morris had instituted fortnightly meetings to try and keep Adonis talking to her, but several officials close to Morris said that he often communicated with her civil servants without her knowledge, an operation Morris found 'very destabilising'.
		Adonis, a former journalist who wields huge influence within Number 10, is renowned for generating a constant stream of ideas.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4533249-111083,00.html (659 words)

	Jurassic Theology
		Andrew Adonis, was one of the 80 or so unelected 'advisors' who seem to run the government.
		Because Andrew Adonis has never been elected, much of what he has done, and advocated, has been shrouded in secrecy, in a way that is only too familiar in the Blair government.
		Adonis was the architect of the "Fresh Start" policy, where "failing schools" were closed and reopened with new names and new staff.
	www.ucl.ac.uk /Pharmacology/dc-bits/jurassic.html (5043 words)

	Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis - Enpsychlopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Nicos Adonis remarried when Andrew was eight and again some time later having more children.
		Lady Adonis is a graduate of Jesus College who worked in public relations and marketing mainly in Germany ; she grew up in Tunbridge Wells, but her father has Welsh origins.
		Lord and Lady Adonis and their two children live in northern London.
	www.grohol.com /psypsych/Andrew_Adonis (1820 words)

	Education \| Top of the class
		Some of what was in the previous patch including city academies and London schools will be handed to long-standing No 10 policy adviser Andrew Adonis, the new schools minister, whose appointment was been mired in controversy since being leaked the day after the election.
		At the end of the day, Adonis has had seven years at the heart of government, while Ruth Kelly has been in the cabinet a mere six months.
		His appointment has triggered sweeping changes to No 10's policy unit, not least with the appointment of Conor Ryan, who was a long-time adviser to former education secretary David Blunkett both in government and in opposition, to replace Andrew Adonis.
	education.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5191340-108228,00.html (510 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Comment \| Fiona Millar: The trouble with Andrew Adonis
		On the day the No 10 adviser Andrew Adonis was appointed schools minister, one of his mates, the former chief inspector of schools Chris Woodhead, was on the radio explaining how many wonderful things this unelected, elitist policy guru had done for our children.
		Foremost among them, he explained, was the invention of the city academies, that new breed of school designed to help the poor, increase choice and woo back the disenchanted middle classes from the private sector.
		You may think that, after devising such a brilliant piece of policy triangulation, this bloke Adonis clearly deserved a halo as well as the peerage he needed to join the government.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /comment/story/0,9115,1485343,00.html (679 words)

	Results: June 20, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Adonis goes for drop kick but Webber is only barely pushed back.
		Adonis goes for a second and manages to rock Webber.
		As the two argue, Adonis hooks Webber and rolls him over and on to his back in a pinning position.
	ufafed.org /MondayMadness/results/06-20-05.htm (7586 words)

	Kelly guarded over adviser Adonis: 14.05.2005: www.paris-accommodation-hotels.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Much of the news coverage of the ministerial reshuffle had focussed on the appointment of Tony Blair's former education adviser, Andrew Adonis, as a junior education minister in the House of Lords.
		So, what about the appointment of Andrew Adonis: had she - as reported - insisted that he was given the post of under-secretary not the more senior role of minister of state for schools?
		She may indeed be grateful for the policy experience of Andrew Adonis.
	www.paris-accommodation-hotels.com /hotels-news.php?lang=en&nid=61653 (1302 words)

	Industry Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Andrew Adonis was until the election the Prime Minister’s adviser on education and public services, and was previously Head of the No 10 Policy Unit, joining the Prime Minister’s staff in 1998 after a career as an academic and journalist.
		He is author or co-author of six books, including studies of the English class system (A Class Act, 1997), the rise and fall of the poll tax (Failure in British Government, 1994), the Victorian House of Lords (Making Aristocracy Work, 1993) and a collection of essays on Roy Jenkins published last year.
		Andrew was educated at Kingham Hill School and at Keble and Nuffield Colleges, Oxford.
	www.industry-forum.org /bio_andrewadonis.html (180 words)

	Andrew Adonis unveils Bill Bryson-RSC scheme to inspire schools science (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		New schools minister Andrew Adonis has today launched a Royal Society of Chemistry scheme - worked out with author Bill Bryson — to provide every secondary school in Britain with a free copy of his book A Short History of Nearly Everything.
		The best-selling writer was at the RSC's London offices participating in the Society’s initiative to mail his book, a worldwide best-seller, to every secondary school head teacher.
		Andrew Adonis, who invited Bill Bryson to present a group of youngsters with the book, which has to date sold two million copies in the UK alone, said: “I welcome this initiative by Bill Bryson to make science more accessible for children.
	xwwwlive.rsc.org /AboutUs/News/PressReleases/2005/BillBrysonBookScheme.asp (575 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Comment \| The rise of Tony Zoffis
		With the announcement that Andrew Adonis is to get a peerage so that he can become a minister at the Department for Education and Skills, we are back, with a sharp bump, to the old, arrogant, reactionary Blair.
		Adonis wanted performance-related pay for teachers – one of the pottiest bits of management voodoo to emerge even from New Labour – and Blunkett did not.
		Adonis thinks that these schools are beacons of hope, from which the state system should learn.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /comment/story/0,9115,1480977,00.html (758 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Special Reports \| Dismay and anger at elevation of Adonis
		Because his earnest middle-to-junior ministerial reshuffle on Monday had given a coveted job to Andrew Adonis, the No 10 policy adviser on education whom many Labour backbenchers regard as epitomising every wrong turn in party policy.
		Apart from the education team's collective appearance at a London primary school yesterday, Mr Adonis, a 42-year-old former Oxford don and Observer/FT columnist (his children attend state primary schools) was keeping mum yesterday.
		When it came to her deputy's job, she did not want Mr Adonis, but happily settled for Jacqui Smith, who served successfully under David Blunkett at education for two years: she will manage both reform and the stroppy unions.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /labour/story/0,9061,1481099,00.html (859 words)

	Shuggy's Blogspot: Choice in Education
		The appointment of Andrew Adonis has raised a few eye-brows after Blair said he was prepared to "listen" after the election.
		Partly because he began his political career, not in the Labour Party, but in the SDP/Liberal thingy in the 1980s; partly because in order to lever him into the Department of Education, Blair had to give him one of those microwave peerages; and partly, to put it bluntly, because he's a Thatcherite in drag.
		Now, with the appointment of Adonis, the English system is about to experience the extension of choice in the system, with more "specialist" schools and more parent power.
	modies.blogspot.com /2005/05/choice-in-education.html (746 words)

	This Adonis of mine. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Andrew jerked back, shocked, staring at his Adonis with a look of confusion and hurt.
		“You did.” Andrew answered, his voice soft and dreamy, a smile playing on his lips, his mind replaying all the lovely happenings of his fantasy in his mind.
		You did look good with that billowy shirt and the long hair flowing in the wind.” Andrew said in a teasing voice, laughing at the look bewilder curiosity Xander was sending his way.
	wim.synfuldesigns.com /adonis.html (1523 words)

	Reform - Media Summary Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Adonis was made a peer and an Education Minister.
		Mr Adonis, former chief of the Prime Ministerâs policy unit, was given charge of the city academies programme and
		Adonis, who will be Ruth Kellyâs No. 3 at the Department for Education, is known for his bold ideas for improving schools.
	reform.moodia.com /website/pressroom/mediasummaryarchive.aspx?o=272 (4556 words)

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