Category: BBC 2’s Newsnight

basic skills in reading and maths · BBC 2's Newsnight · Mrs Neville-Rolfe · Professor Dylan Wiliam · the Economist

Read my lips, LibLabCon: it’s the basics wot count!

John

Returning to my previous posting, a poll commissioned by the Newsnight programme was shocking in a number of ways. According to Newsnight, despite current spending reaching £86 billion a year – a 72% increase since 1977 -, two thirds of people ‘don’t think the government has invested our money on education in the most effective… Continue reading Read my lips, LibLabCon: it’s the basics wot count!

BBC 2's Newsnight · Labour's wasted billions. · Times Online

Balls’ Commons gaffe forces apology

John

The TimesOnline was two days ago reporting the recent spat between Michael Gove, the shadow education secretary, and Ed Balls, the education secretary, at Education Questions in the House of Commons. The point at issue was why, according to Michael Gove, in a year, only forty-five out of a possible eighty thousand pupils eligible for… Continue reading Balls’ Commons gaffe forces apology