Ed Balls

History? It's history

If the past is another country, Ed Balls has just confiscated the passports of our schoolchildren Ed Balls has announced that primary school history is to be subsumed into an "area of learning" called "historical, geographical...

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Oxbridge is clearly guilty of pursuing excellence

Oxbridge demands very high A-level passes and produces many students with good degrees, very few of whom drop out. Where is the problem, wonders Simon Heffer. Something called the Higher Education Policy Institute clearly has...

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Creationism could be taught in schools under Tories, claims Ed Balls

Tom Baldwin, Chief Reporter Conservative plans to grant schools freedom from central control risk bringing the creationist doctrines of a “Religious Right” into the classroom, the Government warned last night. Ed Balls, the...

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Politicians need to Net mums' votes

HERE are some examples of the stories and opinions that keep web discussion group Netmums.com buzzing... ON Coleen Rooney's night out, leaving baby Kai at home... EmmaP(324): OMG, shock horror, she's having a night out! She's a...

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Yorks MP: We can't win with Brown

Len Tingle Editor, Politics Show for Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and the North Midlands A Yorkshire Labour MP says Gordon Brown is now a liability and must go before the general election. Colin Challen who has represented Morley...

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Brown 'an optimist' over UK economy

Gordon Brown has brushed aside gloomy economic news, insisting he remained an "optimist" over the future of the country's finances. Gordon Brown has brushed aside gloomy economic news, insisting he remained an "optimist" over...

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Is Ed Balls more vulnerable than we thought?

Wikipedia Which 2005 “notional” result should we believe? After JackW’s earlier thread I thought I’d have a further look at Morley & Outwood - the seat with new boundaries that the Schools Secretary, the public-school educated...

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MPs' expenses: David Curry chairs discredited watchdog committee

The Committee on Standards and Privileges is a potentially powerful watchdog charged with policing the conduct and financial interests of fellow MPs. MP David Curry Photo: RII SCHROER But it has been criticised for failing to...

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PM's cabinet meets in Nottingham

Prime Minster Gordon Brown and his top team of ministers have travelled to Nottingham for a Cabinet meeting. Mr Brown took questions from an invited audience at the Albert Hall ahead of the meeting. As part of the visit,...

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Aynsley-Green: Invest more in children's services

The children's commissioner has called on the government and all political parties to commit to continued investment in children's services to safeguard their rights. Sir Al Aynsley-Green and his colleagues in Scotland, Wales...

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