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90 years on from the Fisher Act: we realise a key aim
Posted on Sep 24 2008
Are we serious about closing the gap in educational attainment so that the least well off in society have equal chances of succeeding in their future as their better off counterparts? If we are then we must properly embrace the Government’s legislation, which raises the education leaving age from 16 to 18. Our world is changing, and on both a social and economic level, we must change too. More and more jobs now require specific rather than generic skills. And in order for Britain to remain a competitive nation, and equally importantly, for ordinary people to have the best chance of finding employment so that they can support themselves and their families, we must provide as many opportunities as possible for them to gain these skills.
New Tory, New Spin, Youth Wing clipped..
Posted on Aug 11 2008
Cllr Arculus might think of adding ‘spinning’ to scuba diving and stained glass amongst her impressive list of hobbies and interests. On Monday August 11, at Quayside Youth Centre, with a neat flick of the hooves, she jumped clear over the pig’s ear that West Sussex County Council is making of the ‘once in a lifetime’ opportunity of the South Coast Academies.
South-Coast Academies - Labour kick starts schools renaissance in Adur
Posted on Apr 08 2008
In a £70 million co-sponsorship with the Woodard Corporation - the hugely respected and successful operator of over 40 schools - Labour is transforming the life possibilities of thousands of our local children.
King’s Manor. Boundstone. Littlehampton - the South Coast Academies?
Posted on Sep 07 2007
Prime Minister Gordon Brown yesterday formally opened Bristol Brunel Academy, the first brand new school built under Building Schools for the Future (BSF) - the government’s flagship capital investment programme to transform education by rebuilding or renewing every state secondary school in England.
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- Excluded from the Future, the waste of Potential
I’ve just finished my last ever ‘first week’ back at school. As I start my 14th year of schooling, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the education system, its strengths and its weaknesses.
- The more things change, the more….
One of the incidental, but great, pleasures of getting by in another language is to discover exactly the same self-doubts and navel gazing over at the neighbours. Following our annual wail at levels of literacy and numeracy, I came across this within an online conversation in France’s LeMonde: