Tag Archives: Ed Balls
Mumsnet launches fight for financial education
A petition has been launched to make financial education a compulsory part of the curriculum.
The classes, which form part of the PSHE subject area, were set to become mandatory as part of the schools secretary’s children, schools and families bill. But the proposed legislation was defeated when Tories refused to back Ed Balls’ plans.
Now Mumsnet [...]
Tories ignored legal advice on PSHE, says Balls
Schools secretary Ed Balls has revealed that the Conservatives refused to budge on the issue of the PSHE opt out age even after he sent them “emphatic” legal advice that stated all children should have sex education classes at 15.
During a webchat with the Times Education Supplement (TES), he said that Tory shadow minister Michael [...]
Balls slams Tory block on PSHE reform
Ed Balls has been left to reflect on a “disappointing day” after the Conservatives blocked the government’s bid to make sex education compulsory for all school children.
It comes as major blow to Labour’s children’s minister as he attempts to pass his children, school and families bill ahead of the dissolution of parliament.
In a video released on YouTube, [...]
NEWS: No ban on BNP teachers
Teachers will not be banned from joining the British National Party, ministers have decided.
A review into racism in schools found that a blanket ban like that imposed on police officers would be disproportionate to the problem, but recommended that the situation be monitored in the future.
Author of the report and former chief inspector of schools, [...]
Ed Balls: ‘Bullies teased me mercilessly about my name’