Tag Archives: Politics
Christians pray to keep sex education out of academies
Christian organisations have turned to prayer in a bid to stop sex education becoming compulsory in academies.
A proposed amendment to the academies bill put forward by Baroness Massey of Darwen and Baroness Flather would make personal, social and health education (PSHE) a mandatory subject.
If successful, academies would be required to provide sex education lessons to [...]
Too much time spent on social problems, headteachers complain
Teachers are spending too much time tackling issues like health and social skills, according to a new report published by the Prince of Wales’ education charity.
Headteachers who attended the Prince’s Teaching Institute annual conference suggested that 20 years of political encroachment into education had resulted in schools “being asked to mop up all kinds of [...]
Education policy-makers ignore research, says new report
Ministers are more likely to base education policies on ideology, media influence and views of advisers than academic research, a new report has found.
Instinct or Reason: How Education Policy is Made and How we Might Make it Better, which is due to published by the CfBT (Centre for British Teachers) later this month, has found [...]
Charity boss lobbies education minister on PSHE
Education secretary Michael Gove, who blocked the previous government’s attempt to make personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education compulsory, has been urged to reconsider by a charity boss.
Sarah Brennan, chief executive of YoungMinds, a leading children’s mental health charity, highlighted the benefits of making PSHE a statutory part of children’s education.
She said: “PSHE equips young [...]
Michael Gove named as education secretary
Michael Gove has been named as education secretary in the new Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition cabinet.
He will head the Department for Education – previously known as the Department for Children, Schools and Families – with David Willetts acting as minister of state for education and skills, with responsibility for universities.
The announcement coincided with the release of a [...]
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 [...]
Rapper plots his plan B – ‘I’ll create my own political party’
UK rapper Plan B has spoken out against negative attitudes to young people and revealed that one day he hopes to set up his own political party.
The London-born musician, who attended a pupil referral unit after being violent in school, complained to the Daily Record that none of the existing parties represented him.
And though he worries [...]
Champion of children’s interests under review