E-Bacc

[DracoM]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/jan/02/education-policies-hitting-teachers-morale

Well worth reading. Sobering and reflects much of the muttering one hears as well.

[DracoM]

Hope you are watching the VERY important Education debate currently in Parliament?
You need to find out about
[a] Michael Gove and his 'soliloquys' in his departmental meetings [according to others AT such meetings] , AND
[b] the significant differences expressed in terms between the Chair of the Education Select Cttee [Graham Stewart / Tory] and the Secretary of State.

The House seems genuinely very concerned in ALL parties about what the Sec State is about to implement. David Laws speech was materially different in style and content form the speeches his boss has been making.

There is a VERY big issue opening up here and it affects every person in UK

[MrGongGong]

What the future wont sound like ?

http://www.independent.co.uk/student/news/russell-group-universities-accused-of-killing-key-subjects-such-as-economics-and-the-arts-at-secondary-school-level-8475784.html?origin=internalSearch

[teamsaint]

Blimey.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/michael-gove-forced-into-humiliating-uturn-over-ebacc-8484074.html

Mind you, the daft sod thinks we will make progress by everybody learning lots of facts.

[gingerjon]

Very, very odd ...

[ahinton]

E-Bacc gone, as they almost (don't) say in Yorkshire...

[Pabmusic]

E-Bacc gone, as they almost (don't) say in Yorkshire...

[JimD]

Blimey.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/michael-gove-forced-into-humiliating-uturn-over-ebacc-8484074.html

Mind you, the daft sod thinks we will make progress by everybody learning lots of facts.

No, the 'daft sod' thinks he'll make progress by advocating this.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Actually, you probably hear it more frequently in Lancashire. But with the Richard III discussion ongoinging, I don't want to restart the War of the Roses.

[ahinton]

Actually, you probably hear it more frequently in Lancashire. But with the Richard III discussion ongoinging, I don't want to restart the War of the Roses.

...let alone the Wars of the Roses (heaven forfend!); that said, almost anything that goes wrong seems to have to end up being "restarted" these days...

By the way, bearing in mind recent references in the other thread about nouns begetting verbs, might "ongoinging" be an example thereof?

Anyway, now that there's been a U-turn, one could say of Gove that E-bacc-ed down over his proposals (and is he a descendant of those Borogoves as immortalised by the erstwhile Charles Lutwidge Dodgson? - he sounds to me rather more akin to one of those "slythy toves")...

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

The shadow education secretary's reponse said it all.

[eighthobstruction]

Gove top item on News at One R4....

[handsomefortune]

(mind you don't bring your lunch up folks)!

[eighthobstruction]

Gove " I'm a man in a hurry"....so am I ....to see the back of you you you you educated useless expert....

[handsomefortune]

he's on now on 'pm' ...pretending he gives a monkeys about education (again).

having failed on gcse's, he's now 'assuring' listeners that course work will still be excluded from exam results.

i don't think he's 'expert' or 'educated' eigthobstruction - (at least not in education) ...i do think he interviews badly and usually gabbles furiously, presumably in the hope that no one will notice that he's an ignorant and a self serving opportunist just taking pot luck, while the coalition is in power.