New Education Secretary sold off school playing field to developer before handing school over to Tory peer
Just months after the successful 2012 Olympics, Justine Greening – the new Education Secretary – backed the sell-off of six tennis …
Tag Archives: education
Why are parents in England not doing more to stand up for their children?
Soon all parents in England – those of us who can’t afford schools like Eton anyway – will be forced to …
The shocking scale of Osborne’s fat-cat Academy School CEOs’ pay exposed
How much do bosses at YOUR children’s school earn? An investigation by Schools Week and Watchsted reveals huge pay deals for George …
Hedge fund manager donates to Lib Dem schools minister hoping for further privatisation of schools
(not satire – it’s the UK today!) A leading hedge fund manager has donated substantial amounts of money to the general …
Victorian Tory education policy: no disabled, no redheads and young children in forced isolation
(not satire – it’s Tory Britain!) The Tories are rapidly taking us back to Victorian times in many ways – not …
This may not be Cameron’s worst policy – but it’s definitely his stupidest
(not satire – it’s the UK today!) Cameron and Clegg’s stupidest policy? Introducing formal testing and grading in schools for 4 -year olds. …
Tories rush to hand over lucrative school to party donor before election
(not satire – it’s the Tories!) (UPDATE: The Cameron government has decided today to hand the school over to one …
Cameron paid a ‘donation’ for daughter’s place at so called state school
(not satire – it’s David Cameron!) There was a lot of praise recently for David Cameron’s decision to send his …
Anger as teachers at Ribblesdale Infant School get £8bn in pay and bonuses
(satire?) Anti-poverty campaigners are renewing their call for a new tax on the state education sector after the head of Ribblesdale Primary School in Clitheroe …
Private companies tortured children – now running children’s homes and services
(not satire – it’s G4S and SERCO) Private companies G4S and SERCO have agreed to pay out £100,000 in compensation for …
Tristram Hunt MP: I’ll make teachers swear if I become Education Secretary!!
(satire – and a bit sweary!) Shadow Education Secretary Tristram Hunt has announced he will make teachers swear if he …
MPs get a 10% pay rise, nurses and teachers get just 1% and police get nothing at all
(not satire – it’s the UK today!) Earlier this year, the coalition government announced an average increase of 0%-1% in …
Michael Gove claims he was stuck in toilet known as ‘westminster’ for 4 years
(satire?) Former Education Secretary Michael Gove has explained how he allowed UK schools to be taken over by religious fundamentalists – …
Telegraph columnist Toby Young reckons he was accepted into Oxford ‘by mistake’.
(not satire – it’s Toby Young!) Rabid Tory supporter, Free School advocate and Telegraph columnist Toby Young likes to boast about how he …
New Ed Sec voted to end help for poor kids to get to college and buy books
(not satire – it’s the Tories!) Way back in 2011 – before she thought she would ever be Education Secretary …
Academy school in meltdown as ex-prison head puts 100s of children in isolation
(not satire – it’s Michael Gove!) More trouble for Education Secretary Michael Gove. An Academy school on the Isle of …
Lib Dems now trying to blame Labour for their disastrous decision to triple tuition fees
(not satire – it’s the Lib Dems!) Here’s Lib Dem president Tim Farron’s reply to someone on Twitter who reminded …
Plot to take over UK schools by followers of hard-line fundamentalist Michael Gove
(satire?) Militant extremists from Department for Education in shocking plot to take over UK schools An alleged plot to take …
UKIP Pledges to Ban Education in Schools
(satire?) Leading members of UKIP have pledged a total ban on the teaching of children in schools, after the recent local election …
Read this email exchange in which a local resident takes apart UKIP
(not satire – it’s the UKIP!) Here’s a recent email exchange between a local resident of Weymouth in Dorset Jason …
UKIP to ban teaching of climate change in UK schools
(not satire – it’s the UKIP!) According to the UKIP Education spokesman and party MEP Derek Clark, UKIP will ban …
Cognita employed serial paedophile after being accused of ‘milking profits’ from school
(not satire – it’s the UK today!) It’s just been revealed that a convicted serial paedophile who drugged boys before sexually …
Academy school drops music despite it being part of national curriculum
(not satire) The Madani School in Leicester has dropped music from its curriculum even though music is supposed to be a compulsory subject …
Head of failing schools employed as schools inspector for Ofsted
(not satire – believe it or not!) Derek Davies is the executive principle of two failing privately-run academy schools rated inadequate in …
Tory vice chair – unqualified teachers hired “on the cheap” in UK schools
(not satire – it’s the Tories!) The education secretary Michael Gove has decided that unqualified teachers can teach our children. …
History ‘student’ who wrote in support of Michael Gove is really a Tory PR executive
(not satire – it’s the Daily Telegraph!) 21-year-old graduate of History and Politics Jago Pearson – who wrote in the …
Michael Gove: too much thinking still prevails in UK schools
(satire?) The educational elite is indoctrinating the young into thinking about things – and Education Secretary Michael Gove must be …
Michael Gove – WW1 quite nice actually. And WW2 a bit of a hoot.
(satire?) In an article for the Daily Mail, the Education Secretary Michael Gove has condemned what he called ‘left-wing’ academics …
UKIP Cllr who called care children ‘takers’ got state grants for his own children
(not satire – it’s the UKIP!) A UKIP councillor in Cambridgeshire who accused 3 children in care of being “takers …
Michael Gove adviser calls critic ‘mental’ on Twitter
(not satire – it’s Michael Gove!) A Twitter account used by Education Secretary Michael Gove’s advisers is in trouble again …
