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 …
Tag Archives: education
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!) Telegraph columnist Toby Young likes to boast about how he is a perfect example of how …
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 …
Come on Nick Clegg admit it – the Lib Dems f*cked up by voting for Gove’s education reforms
(not satire – it’s the Lib Dems!) In 2010 the coalition government rushed through its flawed Academies Bill in record time which …
Bonkers Tories expect 4-year-olds to be ready for employment, university and “hard problems in calculus”
(not satire – it’s the Tories!) A group of 100 education specialists has criticised Education Secretary Michael Gove’s policy of …
WARNING! To avoid risk of explosion, never mention these 2 facts about childhood obesity in the same sentence. OK?
(not satire – it’s the UK today!) DANGER! The following two facts must be kept well apart – mixing them …
Plans to test 5-year-olds is not the coalition’s worst policy – but it’s their stupidest
(not satire – it’s UK education today) Have any government ministers ever actually spoken to a 5-year-old child? Because formally …
Gove – children to start learning to hate school from age of 5
(satire?) Education secretary Michael Gove’s efforts to revolutionise learning in England’s schools will see five-year-olds learning in their first year that going to school …
How The Gove Stole Summer (with apologies to Dr. Suess)
How The Gove Stole Summer In which Dr. Suess posthumously questions Michael Gove’s decision to abolish summer holidays for school children Every schoolchild …
Gove announces plan to phase out teaching in schools
(satire?) Educational experts have expressed reservations over Education Secretary Michael Gove’s announcement that the coalition government intends to phase out …
EXCLUSIVE – leaked sample questions from Michael Gove’s new GCSE Mathematics examination
(satire?) 1. Leroy wants to buy a TV for £400 plus VAT. VAT is presently at 17½%. How much money …
