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  • Beef Oven!
    Ex-member
    • Sep 2013
    • 18147

    Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
    Not necessarily a development to give him comfort.
    It wasn't a comfortable show - Will Self actually 'offered Gove out'! Offered to 'take it outside'!!!

    The thought of Gove and Self rolling around on the pavement outside the studio at their age, tearing their clobber!! Lol!








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    Last edited by Beef Oven!; 28-09-13, 10:23. Reason: I had too many Os in 'rolling' so I removed one of them. It's much better now that I've taken this action.

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    • An_Inspector_Calls

      Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
      So have I.
      So you have, endlessly.

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      • teamsaint
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        • Nov 2010
        • 25190

        Originally posted by An_Inspector_Calls View Post
        So you have, endlessly.
        well gove gives Alps endless opportunities, to be fair......
        I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

        I am not a number, I am a free man.

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        • Eine Alpensinfonie
          Host
          • Nov 2010
          • 20569

          Originally posted by An_Inspector_Calls View Post
          So you have, endlessly.
          ...which doesn't stop it from being true.

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          • MrGongGong
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            • Nov 2010
            • 18357

            Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
            ...which doesn't stop it from being true.
            Indeed....... Why do so many folk not really care ?
            It makes me weep

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            • Eine Alpensinfonie
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              • Nov 2010
              • 20569

              The thing that I find most alarming is the fact that the opposition is feebly going along with Gove. Last tike round they reintegrated grant maintained school into local control, almost seamlessly. Now they are effectively colluding with the ridiculous divisive free school policy. How spineless the Labour Party has become. :sadface:

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              • An_Inspector_Calls

                Never mind all that, where did you go for your last strike? Hope you had good weather?

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                • amateur51

                  Originally posted by An_Inspector_Calls View Post
                  Never mind all that, where did you go for your last strike? Hope you had good weather?
                  Are you implacably opposed to the right of workers to strike then Inspector?

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                  • Richard Barrett

                    Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
                    the fact that the opposition is feebly going along with Gove
                    After some other recent events (Syria and the Daily Mail in particular) I thought there might be a spark of hope that Labour would be beginning to offer some kind of alternative to the Tories by 2015, but no.

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                    • Richard Barrett

                      Meanwhile, in the expensive world of higher education, I read in the New Statesman that

                      In response to calls from Oxford vice-chancellor Andrew Hamilton and others for the tuition fee cap to be raised from £9,000 to up to £16,000 (the annual cost of educating an undergraduate), [Nick Clegg] said: "Don't worry, we're not going to raise tuition fees to £16,000."

                      Yes, that Nick Clegg, telling us not to worry about university tuition fees.

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                      • MrGongGong
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                        • Nov 2010
                        • 18357

                        Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
                        The thing that I find most alarming is the fact that the opposition is feebly going along with Gove. Last tike round they reintegrated grant maintained school into local control, almost seamlessly. Now they are effectively colluding with the ridiculous divisive free school policy. How spineless the Labour Party has become. :sadface:
                        Indeed
                        What a bunch of chickens
                        So who will get rid of the "free schools" nonsense ?

                        No one it seems

                        That's what I call "democracy" , waste of time participating :-(

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                        • Eine Alpensinfonie
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                          • Nov 2010
                          • 20569

                          My son met a young teacher at the weekend - someone who actually thought Gove's policies and ideas were good. My son, to his credit, resisted the temptation to hit his opposite number, when the latter said "If the oldies can't take it, they should get out." (Emoticon needed)

                          My problem is that I fit into that category, and have become institutionalised, having been in educational establishments since October 1954. (Another emoticon needed.) Now that I only work part-time, I feel like an ex-convict who has been released from prison, but feels the need to re-offend in order to go back inside. This is in spite of the fact that I have intermittent orchestration work and a newly begun wedding photography business.

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                          • MrGongGong
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                            • Nov 2010
                            • 18357

                            What did you make of this Alpen ?

                            Ofsted survey report challenging music education hubs to boldly implement the national plan for music education.


                            A bit of a rude title (even to potty mouthed me ;-) ) all that's missing is "or else ?"


                            I've not read it yet but Jon has some interesting things to say

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                            • Eine Alpensinfonie
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                              • Nov 2010
                              • 20569

                              In my experience, the introduction of whole class/wider opportunities teaching in primary sxhools has been detrimental to music teaching in Key Stage 2. It isn't that there is anything wrong with the teaching, or what is being taught. That's usually very good. But it takes away the confidence of many primary school teachers to do music themselves. If they do, they fall back on the dreaded backing tracks.
                              Last edited by Eine Alpensinfonie; 19-11-13, 11:38.

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                              • MrGongGong
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                                • Nov 2010
                                • 18357

                                Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
                                In my experience, the introduction of whole class/wider opportunities teaching in primary sxhools has been detrimental to music teaching in Key Stage 2. It isn't that there is anything wrong with the teaching, or what is being taught. That's usually very good. But it takes away the confidence of many primary school teachers to do music themselves. If they do, they fall baxk on the dreaded backing tracks.
                                It's interesting that many of the folks who have been (justifiably IMV) critical of the "wider ops" thing are enthusiastic supporters of the whole "Sistema" malarkey which uses more or less the same methodology (with some rather iffy bits that we aren't supposed to talk about !) but with much more money.

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