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Category: Politics
Association of Graduate Recruiters & Tax Avoid ...
Calls to raise tuition fees and increase parental contributions to education come as no surprise to us here at EducationState.
True to form, an organisation that no-one has ever heard of – Association of Graduate Recruiters – calls for radical changes designed to make the world a better place and then hopes that its members notice [...]
Anthony Seldon’s Real Agenda
Today’s Observer includes an article attacking the state of the UK education system.
It is written by Anthony Seldon, master of Wellington College. Typically, the current system is said to be ‘in crisis’ and urgent reform is required for the apocalypse to be avoided. It is an indication of how powerful such Establishment figures remain [...]
X Factor Education
EducationState are interested, if not surprised, that the ‘elite’ are out in force ramping up the ‘crisis’ level in much the same way the ‘fear’ level is ramped up by NuLab.
We all know the drill. Some self-appointed ‘expert’ speaks out in public about some perceived problem, statistics at the ready, and either one of the [...]
Cameron’s Choice
David Cameron, Tory leader, is today quoted as calling for the creation of a ‘teaching elite’.
EducationState would like to remind Dave that to teachers and many people teaching is ALREADY an elite profession just as much as being a lawyer and doctor.
It is the strategy of both main UK parties to peddle the notion [...]
Licence to Teach or a Licence for a Robot?
The NUT has been asking its members to voice their opposition to proposed teaching licences to send in postcards.
To be renewed every five years, licences are intended to improve teaching and weed out the bad apples. Teachers and unions are up in arms about this as they see it as yet more paperwork and form-filling. [...]
Tuition Fees Comedy Review Players
Members’ biographies
Lord John Browne
John Browne was born in 1948. He joined BP in 1966 as a university apprentice. He holds a degree in Physics from Cambridge University and a MS Business from Stanford University, California. He is President of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of the Royal Society and The American Academy [...]
Tuition Fees Comedy Review
“The Universities Secretary Lord Mandelson today announced the appointment of Lord Browne of Madingley as chair of the Independent Review of Higher Education Funding and Student Finance.”
A farce already. The appointments do not include anyone whose income will be harmed come the inevitable hike in fees. In fact, the review panel is so unbalanced and [...]
Nothing new about ‘Higher Ambitions’
Mr. Mandelson has today been on the radio and in Parliament preparing the ground for YET ANOTHER review of HE entitled Higher Ambitions that fails to offer anything we didn’t know.
First reactions to this have revolved around increased tuition fees and redirecting funds to on-line, mature and part-time students.
We’ve taken the statement made by [...]
Alan Johnson sacks 25,000 people who sign petition ...
Not really but you never know…
The Alan Johnson Debacle
Alan “Postie” Johnson, under attack by usually passive scientists, is aiming to deflect attention from his pathetic attempt to stifle freedom of expression last week by ordering YET ANOTHER review of a Government body that isn’t doing what it’s supposed to i.e do exactly as it’s told.
You may be asking what this has to do [...]