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Put to the PMOS that Estelle Morris had today said that the white paper was the worst document she had ever encountered and that Downing Street only had itself to blame for the current difficulties, the PMOS suggested that there were a lot of documents competing for that particular prize and not all of them were produced by government. But to answer seriously the white paper was designed to meet a need. That need was clearly identified by the NAO report of last week, which showed that the number of failing schools had halved. Equally it showed and confirmed that there was still a long way to go in terms of raising all schools up to the necessary standard.

What we had to do therefore was learn the lessons of what had worked in the past five years and build on that. This was what the white paper sought to do, not just by giving schools more independence in terms of identifying an ethos and so forth but also in furthering personalised learning and in taking seriously the discipline agenda. All those were matters, which went right to the core of the education debate and were about what was necessary to raise education standards in this country. Put to him that the rhetoric had not matched the substance, the PMOS said that if you looked seriously at the white paper it was difficult to say that it was anything other than a very serious document addressing serious issues.

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Question; is the government deliberately trying to fuck up the education system even more?

Answer; Yes they are.
Comment by PapaLazzzaru — 17 Jan 2006 on 12:34 pm | Link
Strange, that as the educational standards in schools drop and people are given exam passes to make them think they are smart, the more people actually believe anything they are told by the government and ‘news’ papers etc.

Youd almost think it was a policy to make people very easy to control………..
Comment by tony — 18 Jan 2006 on 10:25 pm | Link
Strange, that as the educational standards in schools drop and people are given exam passes to make them think they are smart, the more people actually believe anything they are told by the government and ‘news’ papers etc.

Youd almost think it was a policy to make people very easy to control………..
Comment by tony — 18 Jan 2006 on 10:26 pm | Link
"Youd almost think it was a policy to make people very easy to control"

NOW you’re getting the point!!! :o>
Comment by PapaLazzzaru — 19 Jan 2006 on 10:03 am | Link

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