All but one of the Bromley’s 17 secondary schools have converted to academies
Instead of damaging political cons like his Canute-like pledge to freeze prices, it is time to get energy back to the market.
I’m at loss to know why a university professor with a PhD should be obliged to sit a GCSE in Maths simply to tick a bureaucratic box (which really happened).
Ed Balls “Off with her head!” may have brought no regrets to him, but it has cost the country several hundred thousand pounds more than if normal capacity procedures had been followed
Whether it is on energy prices, education, the criminal justice system or industrial relations, Labour remains entrenched on the side of vested interests and unions.
Asked five times if he would rule out sending his own children to a school with unqualified teachers Tristram Hunt repeatedly refused to answer.
The truth is that some unqualified teachers won’t be able to step up to the mark – but the same will transpire for every new cohort of freshly qualified teachers too.
Opportunity is the theme which links Conservative policies on tax, education and housing.
The Deputy Prime Minister is incapable of deciding whether he trusts headteachers or wants to dictate to them.
Also: SNP accuse Labour of stealing credit for public spending spree. And Belfast commemorates the nine victims of the 1993 Shankill Road bombing…whilst republicans unveil a plaque to the bomber.
The real qualification to be a teacher is knowing the subject and being able to put it across.
State school can have class teachers teach modern languages who have absolutely no experience speaking the language at all. According to Nick Clegg it is okay.
Ofsted’s leaked report on Al-Mahdina School in Derby is the most damning in the organisation’s 20-year history.
Modern centre-right politicians should focus on the cost of living, the housing crisis, worklessness, lack of educational attainment, poor quality childcare and welfare dependency.