U.K. Department for Children, Schools and Families

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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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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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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Pupils to be given lessons on Darwin

Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution is to be taught to all primary school pupils in Britain, Children’s Secretary Ed Balls has announced. From 2011 Darwin’s discoveries will be taught during science lessons in a curriculum...

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Simon Hoggart's sketch: I'm an MP … get me out of here!

A handful of Labour MPs turned up on the day after the Queen's speech. And most of them could scarcely be bothered to stand up and ask a question. Nobody believes in this thing. It's not worth the parchment it's written on....

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TOM UTLEY: As a fellow 'nul points' duffer, my heart bleeds for that Mastermind dunce

The show was The Year In Question, hosted by Hunter Davies, who grilled teams from rival newspapers on the events of a given year, of which we were notified in advance to allow us to do some homework. The paper's editor, Eve...

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The Sketch: Ed Balls: the dull thud of a party next door

Can't they put Ed Balls into law? Make him the subject of a Guarantee? Can't he be a right that every parent has? If for the first time Balls was put on a statutory basis millions of people would be certain of access to him.

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Message from Christine Blower - General Secretary - End SATs á“ donát forget to VOTE áYESá

Dear Colleague You may have seen todayás announcement from Ed Balls that SATs will go ahead for 2010. It is in that context that I am asking members who have received ballot papers to VOTE áYESá in the current indicative ballot...

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Gordon Brown fights for his elderly care reforms as objections grow

Sam Lister, Health Editor, and Francis Elliott, Deputy Political Editor The row over Gordon Brown’s care plans for the elderly increased yesterday, forcing him to defend the policy against accusations that it risked causing...

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Poll lays bare myths of 'safe sex'

More than one in 10 people (11%) do not realise a woman can get pregnant if she has sex standing up, according to a new poll. More than one in 10 people (11%) do not realise a woman can get pregnant if she has sex standing up,...

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