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Over at the BBC News website, Lib Dem shadow schools spokesman David Laws “reveals the most important things he has learned in his life.” Here’s one of them … 5. Sometimes it is easier to achieve your goals in a roundabout way than by a full-frontal assault. When I was in the City you were taught to
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Ed Balls, in his infinite fucking wisdom, has decided that Latin is a useless subject in schools. Like Boris Johnson, I am outraged, not least because this is my livelihood at stake. The joy and value of Latin being taught in schools and the defence of it being of course entirely separate from this
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Bella Gerens, commenting on Boris' splendid broadside today against the loathesome Ed Balls and his crusade to sideline the teaching of the classic in schools: Could you even begin to grasp the idea of an ablative absolute, or listen with any light of comprehension in your eyes to a discussion of the sexual puns in a poem by Ovid? Students can. Could you find in your shrivelled soul an inclination...
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Ed Balls MP, Labour's Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, is today urging people to take a long hard look at the Tories plans for schools. He is challenging the Tories to come clean on how they will pay for their two flagship schools policies – new ‘free market' schools and a national ‘pupil premium'. Earlier today, Ed Balls set out to Parliament...
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Ed Balls MP, Labour’s Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, is today urging people to take a long hard look at the Tories plans for schools. He is challenging the Tories to come clean on how they will pay for their two flagship schools policies &# new ‘free market’ schools and a national ‘pupil premium’. Earlier today, Ed Balls set out to Parl...
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Vital investment in schools and hospitals is starting to be reined in as the government curbs public spending in an effort to reduce the UK's debt burden
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The Mail on Sunday reports: As a Labour candidate in a working class area of Liverpool, glamorous 28-year-old Londoner Luciana Berger has gone to great lengths to prove her down-to-earth credentials. The privately-educated friend of the Blairs’ son Euan has spent months canvassing on jobs, schools and hospitals. And such is her devotion, the former management consultant has
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Everywhere you turn, it is hard to escape the sirens of decline. Their song echoes through Coffee House: “Buy supplies”, they sing, “take the kids out of schools, close down the hatches - for Britain is going under, broken beyond repair, stuck in a rot from which it cannot escape, while the weaklings of yesteryear (like China and Brazil) roam free on the land that our forbears to...
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Teachers, Thatcher, tax and troops: Nick Clegg Q&A In this afternoon’s Q&A from the Conference hall, Nick Clegg tackled questions from the floor with a relaxed and confident manner that bodes well for the upcoming TV Leaders’ Debates. He took questions from party members in the hall, before taking supplementaries. First up was education and whether schools should use the Pupil Premium to reduce class
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A new book explodes the myth of racist children and reveals how anti-racist initiatives in British schools have split pupils into ethnic camps.
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