How do you stop a runaway train ?

[MrGongGong]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/cash-for-classrooms-michael-gove-plans-to-let-firms-run-schools-for-profit-8682395.html

Should work now
not like this f*ckwit

[teamsaint]

http://www.independent.co.u ak/news/uk/politics/cash-for-classrooms-michael-gove-plans-to-let-firms-run-schools-for-profit-8682395.html

link just needs a tweak, Gongers.

[Beef Oven]

Gove likes to to think outside boxes.

[MrGongGong]

Gove likes to to think outside boxes.

hummm

The man is a dangerous idiot
even the most orthodox CE , Bullock in D , traditionalist music teachers I meet think he is bonkers
the Kippers don't really have an education policy though so (or what little they have looks a bit like this !) so there's no point going to them

[Dave2002]

hummm

The man is a dangerous idiot
even the most orthodox CE , Bullock in D , traditionalist music teachers I meet think he is bonkers
the Kippers don't really have an education policy though so (or what little they have looks a bit like this !) so there's no point going to them

Reminds me of Tom Sharpe and David Lodge. IIRC one of them wrote about a Durex endowed chair at a university, and I think they both had similar ideas in some of their works. Just imagine the Durex IT suite in a school! Maybe they could get Playboy to sponsor a failing school - that'd go down well!

[Serial_Apologist]

Reminds me of Tom Sharpe and David Lodge. IIRC one of them wrote about a Durex endowed chair at a university, and I think they both had similar ideas in some of their works. Just imagine the Durex IT suite in a school! Maybe they could get Playboy to sponsor a failing school - that'd go down well!

Didn't Playboy once do just that? I seem to recall school pencils and biros with the Playboy motif on them, and a lot of fuss.

[Beef Oven]

hummm

The man is a dangerous idiot
even the most orthodox CE , Bullock in D , traditionalist music teachers I meet think he is bonkers
the Kippers don't really have an education policy though so (or what little they have looks a bit like this !) so there's no point going to them

No, don't look to UKIP for anything other than the three Rs, comprehensive and grammer schools and grant funded university education based on merit.

[pastoralguy]

Didn't Playboy once do just that? I seem to recall school pencils and biros with the Playboy motif on them, and a lot of fuss.

I'm sure there's a Simpsons sketch where, looking into the future, Pepsi 'sponsors' all schools. Problem is, come exam time, all the questions have to have a Pepsi reference in the answer... One student doesn't know an answer so she gets a 'partial credit' for answering 'Pepsi'.

[MrGongGong]

No, don't look to UKIP for anything other than the three Rs, comprehensive and grammer schools and grant funded university education based on merit.

The "three R's" are , of course, reading writing wroughting NOT what most folk think
Making stuff (Wroughting) includes experimental computer music
Grammer or Grammar schools ? Terrible idea , a failed idea that we sadly haven't got rid of yet .......(you can't have "comprehensive" and "grammar" schools at the same time)

I suppose they have a magic money fish that they will catch in Icelandic coastal waters to pay for it all as well ........

[ahinton]

In answer to the question posed by the thread topic, perhaps you put Goves on the line...

[Beef Oven]

The "three R's" are , of course, reading writing wroughting NOT what most folk think
Making stuff (Wroughting) includes experimental computer music
Grammer or Grammar schools ? Terrible idea , a failed idea that we sadly haven't got rid of yet .......(you can't have "comprehensive" and "grammar" schools at the same time)

I suppose they have a magic money fish that they will catch in Icelandic coastal waters to pay for it all as well ........

You of all people making austerity arguments against grants for university students and cessation of fees. You don't need a magic money fish to have free education, all it takes is the political will.

You musthave grammer and comprehensive schools together. One produces the leaders and highly skilled, the other the mainstay of industry.

[teamsaint]

No, don't look to UKIP for anything other than the three Rs, comprehensive and grammer schools and grant funded university education based on merit.

like the others, anything to stop people actually thinking for themselves.

[ahinton]

like the others, anything to stop people actually thinking for themselves.

I suspect that it might be wise to cease and desist from looking to UKIP at all in this context, given that it has no material impact on or input into it and continued references to it might risk muddying the waters somewhat.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Gove likes to to think outside boxes.

I must have missed that. When did he actually think?

[Beef Oven]

like the others, anything to stop people actually thinking for themselves.

Not sure it stops people thinking for themselves. For example, Mick Jagger was a fine young grammar school boy and he could well think for himself!