Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Clegg - Not Fit For Purpose!

Leading universities should reduce entry grades for state school pupils to create “a fair race” for degree places, Nick Clegg will say today. (Telegraph.)
Or perhaps standards could be equalised. Just how revolutionary that would be!
I repeat - if you want the system to help 'ordinary kids', restore grammar schooling - a system that actually WORKED!
Dishonest reports, skewed statistics added together with a soupçon of leftist embitteredness - lo and behold, we were given the 'apprehensive' schools, which were seemingly devised to lower standards for working class pupils. 'Dumbing down to a norm' rather than 'raising to a standard'.

Yemen.

  Yemen is key funding hub for Islamic State attacks on Christians - report .   (Photo: Getty/iStock) A new report examining the funding of ...