We have a Minister who has no idea about education. I have run out of words to describe the shameful situation she has left us in which now confronts P6 children, their parents and teachers. The Minister of Education has abandoned children, parents and teachers to the chaos of an unregulated transfer system. We have all known that this issue was confronting us from the moment devolution was restor...

One of the main reasons we need to privatise the education system is this... One of the biggest teachers' unions in England and Wales is demanding a pay rise of 10% or at least £3,000, whichever is greater. Delegates at the annual National Union of Teachers conference backed the call despite warnings it would be unseemly when people are being made redundant. A state backed system simply allows la...

The problem with serious deficiencies in an education system persisting over a number of years is that today's students are tomorrow's teachers. Earlier products of our over-centralised education system, controlled by bureaucrats and politicians instead of teachers and parents, are...

In 2009-10 the education budget runs to £66,700,000,000. £10,000,000,000 of that goes on teachers pensions. £6,500,000,000 is spending on new and improved buildings. The Education department itself spends £182,000,000 on administration, with 2,842 staff. All this in what is meant to be

The BBC today reported that the NAHT will follow the NUT and vote over a boycott of SATs in primary schools. If this is allowed to go unchallenged it will be disastrous for our children's education, and will reverse most of the improvements we have seen in the last fifteen years. It is obvious that SATs are unpopular with teachers, but guess what? I don't care! Our education system shoul...

What a joy to work in the State Education sector. Get this. "A second English school has sent children home to allow teachers to fly to Spain for ‘training’, it emerged last night. Whitegate End Primary School, in Oldham was shut last Friday after it sent all its teachers to Barcelona for the weekend. The news comes just days after a secondary school in Stoke-on-Trent abandoned plans t...

The poverty industry is big business and those within it require an endless conveyor belt of OTT headlines to keep their snouts in the taxpayer trough. "There were calls today for child poverty to be tackled as the Government confirmed that almost 100,000 children in Northern Ireland are still living in deprivation. 100,000 children - wow, that's a huge figure! And all fantasy, of course. The...

The true scale of the collapse of the college grant system is today revealed in figures which show that more than 100,000 students are still awaiting support payments nearly three months after they were due. Thousands of the students - among them the poorest in England - will not get their money before Christmas, college principals say. The figures, obtained through a parliamentary question tabled...

The General Teaching Council (GTC)  has admitted the system of rooting out  bad teachers is 'virtually non-existent' Only 10 teachers have been struck off for incompetence in almost a decade despite a Government crackdown on poor practice, it emerged today. They are being banned from the classroom at a rate of just two in 100,000 since the GTC was set up in 2001 to protect childr...

Nearly 100,000 people on benefits have four or more children, with more than 900 claimants having at least eight. Quite which way around this works though is a mystery. Is it that the existence of he benefits system encourages some to have more children? Or that if you have more children already then hte benefits