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Education White Paper

Asked if the intervention of Gordon Brown meant that it was less of a "high wire act" for the Prime Minister on the Education White Paper, the PMOS said that of course, the Prime Minister welcomed the remarks from the Chancellor. Equally, however, he recognised that there were still others who had different views, and therefore, we would have to keep trying to convince those people. The Prime Minister had set out the reasons yesterday why he believed that we needed to apply the lessons of what had worked in schools in recent years. If people looked at the letter today from Andrew Adonis in "The Guardian", where he said there had been a 73% improvement in the percentage of pupils getting five good GCSE results in the fourteen Academy schools, it underlined what had worked, as some of those schools had been set up in some of the most deprived areas in the country.

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That’s all right then. Fourteen ‘Academy’ schools get better results and we’re all saved. What about the thousands of other schools not doing as well as expected?
Comment by Chuck Unsworth — 26 Jan 2006 on 1:28 pm | Link
Hate to "labour the point" (huh huh huh, geddit?!?!) but we’re being groomed to accept failure, and too many are allowing themselves to be sidetracked by specifics the government has no interest in or use for. Yet another new initiative that has turned into an abject failure – and the only real defence is no defence at all, except for the fact that we can do nothing about it. Don’t you see it yet? The system is DESIGNED to fail; therefore it is a resounding success. Think about it. Who benefits from a country full of morons??? For one, a government that no longer has any use for the truth…
Comment by PapaLazzzaru — 26 Jan 2006 on 4:34 pm | Link

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