Tuesday 30th June 2015
Posted: Tue 30 Jun, 2015 7:12 am
Morning all.
I'd hate to think that you might be feeling neglected -refitman wrote:Morning all.
This is why I try to remember to thank refitman for his opening thread post! Morning you two and guests.PorFavor wrote:I'd hate to think that you might be feeling neglected -refitman wrote:Morning all.
Good morfternoon to you and everyone else here.
The wonder of London eh. That sort of incomprehensible but probably perfectly explainable scenario is definitely a part of city life I miss. (But west Wales can give it a run for the money with everyday wackiness of its very own type.)Matt Chorley @MattChorley 44m44 minutes ago
Maybe the heat's getting to me but I've just seen a man with a toilet - actual porcelain toilet - pushing in a buggy over Westminster Bridge
Well, it's not "part of a single school academy trust" - it is the only bit of it!Robert Owen Academy is a very small 14-19 free school. It is part of a single school academy trust.
It opened for students in Year 10 in September 2013 and now has students in Years 10 and 11. Post-16 provision is planned to start in September 2015.
The academy has been situated on two sites and is due to gain access to additional vocational work areas before the end of this academic year. Three Principals have led the academy since it opened and the current Principal took up post in September 2014.
David Maddox: Labour’s SNP lesson as ‘Scots voice’
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... The committee stage of the Scotland Bill, when the main changes can be made, is then the best opportunity for the 56 SNP MPs to justify their election slogan saying they are “a strong voice for Scotland”. Yet the bold statistics this week have suggested that in reality it is Labour “standing up for Scotland” and taking on the government.
The committee stage yesterday, which dealt with financial matters, saw 51 amendments from Labour, more than twice as many as placed by the SNP who managed 24 and signed some of Labour’s on top of that. In today’s committee stage on the welfare measures, key to the bill, Labour placed 21 amendments to the SNP’s 15.
Today’s Labour amendment on allowing Holyrood to top up all benefits, which has since been signed by the SNP, is crucial for making sure the spirit of the Smith Commission is met. So the 75 amendments to 39 suggest that, despite only having one MP from north of the Border, a leaderless Labour Party appears to be making the running on the Scotland Bill, not the SNP despite the Nationalists’ claims of being the Tories’ “principle opposition”...
Barry Sheerman @BarrySheerman 51m51 minutes ago
A new concept "we will re-broker failing academies" Nicky Morgan @BBCr4today
It's not new - they've been doing this for a while - something like 60 academies (IIRC) have changed sponsors.rebeccariots2 wrote:Barry Sheerman @BarrySheerman 51m51 minutes ago
A new concept "we will re-broker failing academies" Nicky Morgan @BBCr4today
This article from Umunna is worth a read, if only to contrast with the rubbish Liz Kendall comes out with. I'm not sure about Umunna's strategic approach to rehabilitating Labour's economic credibility, but at least he shows signs of understanding what he's talking about. I would trust him more than Kendall because he can demonstrate that he grasps basic economics in a way Kendall doesn't. She may understand but chooses to talk in terms she thinks the electorate will get, but the simplification of complex economics simply plays straight into the Tories' hands and for this I can't forgive her. As I have said before, the lack of a standout candidate for leader is somewhat compensated for by some good people coming through the ranks and I feel Ummuna could well be one of them. I feel a little sorry for Spinning Hugo, they were keen on Ummuna and I can at least see qualities that makes me see why. Kendall makes for a poor back up.Osborne wants to legislate to make surpluses a legal requirement in “normal times” but has failed to define what that means. He previously described an attempt in 2010 to enshrine such strictures into law as “vacuous and irrelevant”. He will be challenged to explain this.
Changed sponsors, maybe, but "re-brokered"? Sounds painful!RogerOThornhill wrote:It's not new - they've been doing this for a while - something like 60 academies (IIRC) have changed sponsors.rebeccariots2 wrote:Barry Sheerman @BarrySheerman 51m51 minutes ago
A new concept "we will re-broker failing academies" Nicky Morgan @BBCr4today
AET handed back 8 academies because they couldn't cope with the geographical spread - shame they didn't point this out when they were handed to them eh?
and -She says what people want is much the same everywhere in the country. As she has said before, she says, people want somewhere to live, something to do, something to value, and someone to love.
So she sees the Labour Party's future in the dating agency sector? It all sounds very romantic.Q: You don’t like being described as a Blairite? How would you like to be described?
As a Kendallite, Kendall says
I think Kendall's just there to make Cooper look like the reasonable centrist candidate - and it's working! I'm even warming to Cooper myself. She's very clever and she has an edge Burnham lacks. She has baggage that will make it hard for some people to support her, like Atos, I know, but the future jobs fund and Surestart are a reminder that some New Labour experiments worked better than others. Not sure she can beat Burnham, though, I assume he's still favourite.PorFavor wrote:Liz Kendall at the Labour Party leadership hustings (from the Guardian's Politics Blog (emphases mine)) -
and -She says what people want is much the same everywhere in the country. As she has said before, she says, people want somewhere to live, something to do, something to value, and someone to love.
Q: You don’t like being described as a Blairite? How would you like to be described?
As a Kendallite, Kendall says
So she sees the Labour Party's future in the dating agency sector? It all sounds very romantic.
Umunna:Willow904 wrote: I'm not sure about Umunna's strategic approach to rehabilitating Labour's economic credibility,
I don't like it at all, I think there's been too much mea culpa already. People stop listening long before you get to the bit about what Labour did right, let alone what the tories are doing wrong now.We must be big enough to say all this not only because it is true, but because if we have the humility to make some concessions, we might get a better hearing when we turn to defending our record and arguing – as we should – that it was not profligacy on the part of the last Labour government that caused the global financial crash. We, after all, had reduced the national debt from the 42% of GDP in 1997 to 37% of GDP on the eve of the crash. Our response to the crash stopped many repossessions and saved many, many jobs.
More importantly, if we say all of this, people might be more willing to listen to the arguments we make now about the Tories’ current economic record.
Sorry to hear that, thoughts with you both. Apologies for the brevity.ohsocynical wrote:Just back from the hospital with Mr Ohso. Unfortunately he has bladder cancer. Booked in for an op on 17th, Hopefully it will be the more manageable sort.
Hospital were brilliant this morning. I just wish treatment could be quicker.
Please give Mr Ohso my love.ohsocynical wrote:Just back from the hospital with Mr Ohso. Unfortunately he has bladder cancer. Booked in for an op on 17th, Hopefully it will be the more manageable sort.
Hospital were brilliant this morning. I just wish treatment could be quicker.
I'd like to visit Greece, I've never had the pleasure.Rally in Athens on Monday against EU austerity and in favour of no vote in referendum.
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Thinking of you both, fingers & toes crossed that it is the more manageable sort xxxohsocynical wrote:Just back from the hospital with Mr Ohso. Unfortunately he has bladder cancer. Booked in for an op on 17th, Hopefully it will be the more manageable sort.
Hospital were brilliant this morning. I just wish treatment could be quicker.
Sorry to hear that, hope things go well from now on.ohsocynical wrote:Just back from the hospital with Mr Ohso. Unfortunately he has bladder cancer. Booked in for an op on 17th, Hopefully it will be the more manageable sort.
Hospital were brilliant this morning. I just wish treatment could be quicker.
Kendall's up live!AngryAsWell wrote:Is anyone listening to the leader hustings ?
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They are back at 2:00pm for the deputy leaders debateAngryAsWell wrote:Is anyone listening to the leader hustings ?
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http://www.theguardian.com/education/20 ... -education" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;nspiration Trust school application form: "The mathematics curriculum will be academic led, developed with and supported by Cambridge University, King’s College mathematics department."
King's College: "They were obviously confused when they filled in their application form. Their association is through the Cambridge Mathematics Education Project, a DfE-funded project based at the university’s centre for mathematical studies." Neither the university nor King’s College, Cambridge, had been involved in writing the school’s curriculum.
Once it's backed up you should be able to watch from the beginning in the archive. On the older version of the site, you could scroll back to the beginning but I don't know whether or not that's still true.RogerOThornhill wrote:Oh...session's just finished and I missed most of it. Damn.
Gibb's just asked the question of one of them whether they'd rather be a HT in an academy or in a LA maintained school.
Given that she's a CEO of an academy trust, guess what her answer was.
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Schools Week @SchoolsWeek 26m26 minutes ago
Once again Gibb asks witness to promote the value of academies model. Seems he's been sent here to anchor the positive stories #edubill
Is that his only purpose? Academies work because we say they do.
edited to correctIf you read nothing more of mine, please read the following:
Bookmark the website posted below, everyone.
It's way better than Labour's yourbritain website.
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So sorry to hear that, Ohso. Fingers crossed that it can be managed and that the hospital continue to be brilliant. Love to Mr. Ohso, too. xxxohsocynical wrote:Just back from the hospital with Mr Ohso. Unfortunately he has bladder cancer. Booked in for an op on 17th, Hopefully it will be the more manageable sort.
Hospital were brilliant this morning. I just wish treatment could be quicker.
Leslie had a good campaign, but I have not been impressed with him as SC post-election.StephenDolan wrote:Was the 50p top tax rate a vote loser? I'm wondering what evidence based conclusion is being used when Leslie (who I generally have a lot of time for) is saying this is a dead duck.
It's been pointed out elsewhere that grammar schools, even if they are above the floor target could be regarded as coasting given their intake.LadyCentauria wrote: What do you think to the announcement that secondaries with fewer than 60% of pupils attaining A-C at GCSE, or primaries where fewer than 85% pass at KS4, and who do not have an 'improvement plan acceptable to the Regional Schools poobahs, will be given over to academy chains? I think it's crackers...
Back up with the DL debatesAngryAsWell wrote:They are back at 2:00pm for the deputy leaders debateAngryAsWell wrote:Is anyone listening to the leader hustings ?
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Eurostar and Eurotunnel services cancelled for the rest of the day
Ferry services to and from Dover are also suspended as striking ferry workers blockade French port and set fire to the track in Calais
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Assume there are daily limits outside Greece.citizenJA wrote:"Would Greeks still be able to travel abroad and withdraw their money from the nearest foreign cashpoint, or are all their accounts completely frozen?"
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Anyone know the answer to this here?