I am a governor for a local primary school, and was interested to read this, a Government Review on strengthening school governance. Here are a few quotes:
Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families Ed Balls said:
Governing bodies are the largest volunteer group in the country and have a proud tradition of serving their [...]
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The BBC are reporting that there is a big row over at Nato - not over conflict in a far corner of the world but that there are not enough toilets in the venue for the next summit in Romania.
Parliamentary official Mihai Unghianu says Nato has complained that there are not enough lavatories at the venue.
Nato [...]
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Geldof and Bush: This is a fascinating article by Bob Geldof who travelled with the American President on his recent trip to Africa.
Thanks to Josh Harris
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Interesting article in the Times newspaper today on conception and pregnancy statistics.
Although Britain’s teenage pregnancy rate is the highest in Western Europe, in recent years there has been a slight fall. In 2006 the conception rate among 15 to 17-year-olds fell from 41.4 to 40.7 conceptions per 1,000 girls.But the percentage of conceptions leading to a [...]
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Report from the Children’s Rights Director for England, read it here.
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Relational youth ministry is quoting the Bishop of Chelmsford speaking to a Grand Committee of the House of Lords:
“My heart sank a little when we spoke of building youth centres. Those of us in the faith communities and the churches have been involved in work with young people for a long time.
“Buildings are important, and [...]
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Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families Ed Balls recently announced a £30m investment over the next three years so sports facilities can be used all year and round the clock.
He urged more councils to end the ‘no balls game’ culture and help give children and young people out-of-school sports provision by opening up [...]
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The Government has decided against backing more faith schools, the Children, Schools and Families Secretary, Ed Balls, told MPs.
In what is being seen as one of the most significant policy shifts of the post-Tony Blair era in education, he told a Commons select committee: “It is not the policy of the Government nor my department [...]
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The spread of faith schools across the country has been shelved because ministers fear they could help create a new generation of Muslim extremists, it was claimed last night.
A favourite project of Tony Blair, the schools have previously been seen as a success, with good academic results and satisfied parents.
But in a Commons [...]
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Michael Nazir-Ali, Bishop of Rochester has written an article in the Sunday Telegraph entitled Extremism flourished as UK lost Christianity. Some of the bits that have been highlighted include:
There has been a worldwide resurgence of the ideology of Islamic extremism. One of the results of this has been to further alienate the young from [...]
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