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De minister van Scholen, Jim Knight, werd een publiek gegeven dat neer door leraren zich gisteren kleedt aangezien hij grote klassengrootte en het testende regime van de Overheid wilde verdedigen.
Hij was jeered door afgevaardigden bij de Vereniging van de conferentie van Leraren en van Sprekers na wordt gevraagd of was een klasse van 38 leerlingen voor acht en negen-jaar in een primaire school aanvaardbaar. M. Knight antwoordde dergelijke klassengrootte „handelbaar“ was als de leraar… was
Schok-op van de ziekenhuizen deur voor het sponsoring van McDonald's zal openen.
De firma's zoals McDonald's en Virgin zouden NHS het ziekenhuisafdelingen in het kader van radicale plannen kunnen mogen sponsoren die door de Overheid worden aangekondigd sponsoring van gezondheidsdiensten toe te staan en een nieuwe era van de open concurrentie tussen de ziekenhuizen tot stand te brengen.
De privé bedrijven zullen wat „merkvoorlichting“ zoals een embleem op het ziekenhuisbezit mogen tot stand brengen maar zij zouden toegestaan worden om geen te bereiken…
A force of 1,000 civilians including police, members of the emergency services and judges, ready to be deployed to conflict zones around the world, was among a range of proposals in a long-awaited "national security strategy" announced by Gordon Brown yesterday.
The government will publish a "national risk register" to help local authorities and businesses prepare for potential disasters, and promote a civil protection network of local volunteers. A national ...
It's probably no surprise, but the government's horrendous record with data security has destroyed the public's trust.
Only one of every ten people trust the government to handle their personal data, according to new research released today.
The DES survey also showed 93 per cent of people who were against or not sure about identity cards said that this was because the government had a poor track record on protecting ...
Police have intervened across the country to censor 'On the Verge' an independent documentary about a campaign to shut down a Brighton weapons manufacturer. So far establishments in Southampton, Chichester and Bath and Oxford as well as Brighton have come under police pressure to cancel film showings. In Brighton police intervened to prevent a showing at the Duke of York's Cinema.
Staff at the Arthouse Community Cafe ...
 Evening Standard condemned by press watchdog for coverage of the Camp for Climate Action's Heathrow protest. Claim of fabrication upheld.
In a much awaited ruling the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) issued a stinging rebuke against the Evening Standard today. The usually mild- mannered PCC slammed the Standard's coverage of last summer's Camp for Climate Action at ...
Teachers in independent schools are being denied the most basic employment rights, with some not having written contracts and others forced to work more than 100 hours a week.
Growing competition to perform well in league tables, and pressure from parents paying fees as high as £25,000 a year, are forcing head teachers to get rid of staff for the flimsiest of reasons, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) heard ...
Gordon Brown has said he will meet Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama when he visits the UK.The prime minister has faced pressure from opponents to make the commitment after recent protests in Tibet.
During prime minister's questions, he also said he had spoken to China's premier on Wednesday morning and had urged an end to violence.
Tory leader David Cameron congratulated Mr Brown on reaching what he called the "right ...
MPs told that calls from senior police officers will not be answered.
The government has no plans to extend the DNA database despite the wishes of senior figures within the police force to do so, home office minister Tony McNulty told MPs today.
Speaking at a Home Affairs Committee inquiry, Mcnulty said he thought the balance of the number of people on the DNA database is "about right".
Calls ...
Five years on, and still we have not learnt. With each anniversary, the steps crumble beneath our feet, the stones ever more cracked, the sand ever finer. Five years of catastrophe in Iraq and I think of Churchill, who in the end called Palestine a "hell-disaster".
But we have used these parallels before and they have drifted away in the Tigris breeze. Iraq is swamped in blood. Yet what is the ...
Fears of widespread fraud in the local elections in May were raised yesterday after a judge said that the rules for postal ballots were fatally flawed.
Just weeks before more than two million people are expected to vote by post in local council and mayoral elections, Richard Mawrey, QC, said that postal voting on demand was “lethal to the democratic process”.
He said that the current system made “wholesale electoral fraud both ...
The full extent of a secret 20-year "back channel" between the British government and the IRA is revealed today by Tony Blair's former chief of staff, who declares that the peace process might never have been possible without the link.
In the first authoritative account of the link by a British official, Jonathan Powell tells the Guardian that a Derry businessmen, Brendan Duddy, and a series of MI5 and MI6 ...
Gordon Brown has strongly criticised Robert Mugabe's regime in Zimbabwe, but now ministers are seeking to expel 1,000 desperate people back to Harare on the grounds that there is 'no general risk' to them. Emily Dugan and Robert Verkaik investigate
Ministers are preparing to expel hundreds of failed asylum-seekers back to the brutal regime of Robert Mugabe, seriously undermining Gordon Brown's publicly declared tough stance on Zimbabwe.
The Government has ...
Millions of Britons face having their lives made a "misery" by mistakes on Government databases, it was claimed last night.Experts warned these errors could even put lives at risk by leading to inappropriate medical treatment.
Research by IT specialists found 4 per cent of the population - almost two million people - had discovered incorrect information stored under their name by Whitehall or local authorities.
The total climbs even higher when partial ...
The Home Secretary yesterday set out her plans for a “triple ring of security around Britain”. This “triple ring” entails the funding of new Special Branch police to patrol UK borders; tougher checks at borders and ID cards for foreign nationals.
As the Troubles come to an end with their attendant measures of State control to watch ...
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