Tag Archives: Education

Michael Gove vs Reality

By James Bloodworth | Published: April 3, 2013

Short video from the NASUWT documenting education secretary Michael Gove’s long struggle with reality.

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PM visits India while new figures show no UK students studying main Indian language in school

By Left Foot Forward | Published: February 18, 2013

While the prime minister visits India, new figures reveal that not a single UK child has studies Hindi for GCSE or A-Levels in the past year.

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Gove: Ebaccs will give us most rigorous education system in the world

By James Bloodworth | Published: February 7, 2013

Michael Gove has done a U-turn over plans to scrap GCSEs.

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The case for universal free school meals – and why Labour should adopt the policy

By Guest | Published: January 31, 2013

Fiona Twycross AM makes the case for universal free school meals, and calls on Labour to adopt the policy.

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While Gove tinkers, Wales retains the GCSE

By Ed Jacobs | Published: January 30, 2013

The Welsh government has opted to retain the current exams model of GCSEs and A-Levels, putting Wales and England on course to see radically different systems.

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Twigg: Gove is the “enemy of promise”

By Guest | Published: January 24, 2013

Shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg MP responds to today’s school league tables.

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Twigg: Gove’s plans will ‘take us back to the 19th century’ and risk a “decade of decline”

By Shamik Das | Published: January 17, 2013

Stephen Twigg today warns Michael Gove’s Ebacc plans risk “ushering in a decade of economic decline”, taking Britain back to a ’19th-century education system’.

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Comment: Labour wants a true baccalaureate approach in education

By Guest | Published: January 16, 2013
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Stephen Twigg MP, Shadow Education Secretary Labour has today called a debate in Parliament on the Government’s shambolic plan for changes to exams at 16. We do need to reform our education system so that it equips young people with the skills, knowledge and resilience that they need to play their part in the economy [...]

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The impact of Gove’s reforms on teachers’ everyday working lives

By Dan Holden | Published: December 19, 2012

A glimpse into the everyday lives of teachers, looking at the attitudes of teachers towards action taken by the NUT that did not include strike action.

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Mr Gove, What’s with the rush to the EBacc, Sir?

By Guest | Published: December 18, 2012

Michael Gove will do well to listen to those urging him to think again about his proposed reforms to secondary examinations, writes the NUT’s Christine Blower.

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