The news that Ed Balls will force 15 year olds to have at least one year of mandatory sex education in schools has re-opened that old debate – who should provide children’s sex education? Personally, I doubt whether teachers or parents are better suited to the task, as both use either clinical candour, which children find hilarious, or a stream of inscrutable euphemisms. The wider deba...

The government is accused of doing a U-turn over compulsory sex education in faith schools.

Schools Secretary Ed Balls drops key reforms for England, including compulsory sex education, after the Conservatives refuse to back them.

Wonder what you make of the news that lessons in healthy lifestyles and sex education could replace traditional academic subjects in a shake-up of primary school teaching planned by Education Minister Ed Balls?. Pupils could even be assessed on their ‘personal development’ as well as the three Rs. The Schools Secretary has ordered an inquiry into primary school lessons to consider whet...

Nanny's special little pet, Ed Balls (Schools Secretary), is living up to his name by recently spouting complete shite.In his view, and this is the most amazing piece of Big Brother "double speak" that I have read in a long while, grammar schools damage educational standards.Just think about that for minute.Balls is saying that by trying to turn out well educated pupils, grammar schools are damagi...

As Co-operative Party Conference kicks off today in Westminster Central Hall, Patrick Wintour in the Guardian trails the announcement that Ed Balls will make later about co-operative trust schools:Ed Balls, the schools secretary and only member of the Co-operative Party in the cabinet*, will today propose that 100 schools over the next two years become co-operative trust schools owned and controll...

Ed Balls is a weapons-grade fucking cunt: Schools are being given advice on how to prevent pupils becoming drawn to violent extremism and terrorism. Guidelines are being made available to primary and secondary schools in England to help them discuss the issues surrounding extremist views.WHAT THE FUCK???!!? Schools Secretary Ed Balls said schools could play a "key role" in getting young people to ...

I've just read an article reporting that Ed Balls is trying to warn of cuts in education and that headteachers need to trim their budgets, especially primary school heads. If your not involved in schools this might sound fine to you, but I can tell you the government has until very recently been giving schools a hard time about not spending enough money ! And why won't the schools spend ...

Oh no. If the country wasn't facing enough problems, what with the recession and George Osborne's colourful holidays with Peter Mandelson, the government has chosen today to reform sex education for the tiny tots. It's surely on a hiding to nothing there, I'd wager. Before schools minister Jim Knight unveiled today's details of what he and his capo Ed Balls have in mind, h...

Ed Balls, the Schools Secretary, sought to turn the spotlight on education today as the major political parties stepped up their skirmishing ahead of the general election.