No surprises here
Another recycled story that the worst off, stay the worst off.
Taken from BBC Education on 22/12/10
Posted by Jonathan Wells of Guroo Functional Skills
Pupils on free school meals are 55 times less likely to go to Cambridge or Oxford than those from private schools, the Sutton Trust has said.
The charity said it feared rising fees and [...]
Labour, schools and a damning indictment
Labour, schools and a damning indictment
By DAILY MAIL COMMENT
Last updated at 11:53 AM on 8th December 2010
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1336642/British-education-deterioration-Labour-schools-damning-indictment.html#ixzz17bKLJrJG
From seventh place in reading skills to 25th… from eighth in maths to 28th… from fourth in science to 16th…
Britain’s relentless slide down the international education league tables over the Labour decade is nothing less than a [...]
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Extra funds meant more university places. The real issue now is cuts to education maintenance grants
Ed Miliband will on Thursday lead Labour MPs into the Commons division lobbies against proposals to treble student fees. “No party with a deep and genuine commitment to social mobility could support them,” he argued in the Observer this week. [...]
The current edition of sec-ed on pages 8-9 carries a goo review of whole education comparing ASDAN CPE and several other quals.
How will these stand up in the Wolfe review.
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