Posted in Education, Society, UK politics on March 19, 2008 | No Comments »
The government is set to introduce the 14-19 Diploma this september and if all goes to plan it seems quite keen on having the qualification replace the traditional A level as soon as it gains ascendency.
Dr Ken Boston, the head of the qualifications and curriculum authority announced that when A levels undergo their review in [...]
Posted in Education, Political, Social, Socialism, Society, UK politics, rant, tagged Private Education on March 11, 2008 | No Comments »
I had my relatively laid back feelings toward class issues kicked back into touch again by the ongoing saga that is a fellow student in one of my lessons who was privileged enough to attend a private boarding school before somehow ending up in the same boat as the rest of us poor common people [...]
Posted in Education, Government, Labour, Political, Social, Society, UK politics, tagged Compulsory Education, Queens Speech, Utopia on November 6, 2007 | 5 Comments »
An interesting part of the Queen’s pre-speech speech(?) was a proposed bill to keep youngsters in education or training up until the age of 18 by making further education compulsory.
It’s an interesting one in as much as College has become just about compulsory for anybody who does half well at their GCSE’s, the entry criteria [...]
Posted in British Rail, Economy, Education, Free Market, Government, Industry, NHS, Police, Privatisation, Public Services, Renationalisation, Royal Mail, Social, Socialism, Society, UK politics, Utopia, democracy on July 17, 2007 | No Comments »
I am and always have been firmly against the privatisation of state owned industries, this position does not blind me however to the faults of nationalised industries nor to the benefits of privatisation.
I’ve been thinking about restructuring existing goverment industries and doing the same with present private sector industries and services after first renationalising them.
To [...]
Posted in Capitilism, Culture, Education, New World Order, Political, Religion, Science, Social, Socialism, Society, Speculation, Utopia on June 30, 2007 | No Comments »
It strikes me that one main problem I have in my thought process is that of generalisation, you see I won’t lie, or try and deny the fact that I really don’t like other people, and in most cases tend to look down on them in no small way.
Such an outlook is in reality indefensible [...]
