Tag: political stuff
BBC NEWS | Education | Merger may see 3,500-pupil school
BBC NEWS | Education | Merger may see 3,500-pupil school Parents and pupils are to be consulted over plans to merge three schools into one academy for 3,500 pupils. On Tuesday councillors approved a period of consultation over what would be England’s largest school. The merging of Greenwood Dale School, Elliott Durham School and Jesse…
BBC NEWS | England | London | End to father's motorway protest
BBC NEWS | England | London | End to father’s motorway protest Police said despite the massive traffic disruption on the motorway, the man had the right to protest peacefully. A Metropolitan Police spokeswoman said that despite queues that stretched for 19km (12 miles) on the M25 and 32km (20 miles) on the M4, the…
UK fishermen blame EU quotas as they discard five tonnes of endangered fish | Environment | guardian.co.uk
UK fishermen blame EU quotas as they discard five tonnes of endangered fish | Environment | guardian.co.uk A British trawler has sparked an international incident after being filmed taking a boatload of endangered fish caught in the Norwegian sector of the North Sea and then dumping the majority overboard in UK waters. Norwegian government coastguards…
staff meetings and bureaucracy
Have I spelt that right? It looks very wrong. Anyway, this morning I took another trip out to the park. I was amused by the way so many parents ignored our presence when they realised we weren’t parents, avoiding eye contact, stepping away from the item of equipment we were using and so on. I…
German minister criticises UK's renewables record | Environment | guardian.co.uk
German minister criticises UK’s renewables record | Environment | guardian.co.uk The policy had also had the effect of creating new, world-class industries which had created 250,000 jobs and billions of euros of exports a year. Germany was building the industries of the 21st century and had huge first-mover advantage, he said. “Climate change is not…
Tory MPs broke rules on second home payments | News
Tory MPs broke rules on second home payments | News The committee said the couple were “arguably” in breach of the rules following changes to expenses rules in 2003, which banned MPs from using additional costs allowance to rent from themselves. But the position was “unequivocal” after more changes in July 2006, because members of…
Some government dept, somewhere.
NDS – News Distribution Service From 2010 the new scheme will form part of personal skills accounts that will be available to all adults and will guarantee free training for older people up to at least level 2 GCSE equivalent. In todays Paper, Ministers will also announce a pilot to fund and support training up…
On the one hand
Fathers no longer needed under fertility law overhaul | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited Dr Harris, a member of the Commons science and technology select committee, said the existing act was “unjustifiable, discriminatory and vindictive. It was also unsustainable in human rights and equality terms. The evidence suggests children do very well brought up by…
I love teh internets-web-thingy
Tim is watching some scif-fi program about a series he saw yonks ago: Survivors – The Complete Series 1 [1975]. Someone narrating mentioned the links between The Good life and this series, as well as a book, Small is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered. Loved the quotes on the wikipedia page…
Help pupils now | Schools | EducationGuardian.co.uk
Help pupils now | Schools | EducationGuardian.co.uk So what makes it politically incorrect to teach children parenting? How a parent can encourage, or hinder, a child. How babies and children learn, develop, respond. I’m talking about replicating in schools the natural development of parenting skills that used to happen in extended families and close communities.…