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Looting and Riots – “Condemned” statement by UK Youth Parliament

Posted in Children's and Youth Work, News, Politics, Society on October 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Fantastic statement on the riots by UK Youth Parliament: The UKYP condemn all forms violence used towards property or any member of the general public. At this difficult time our thoughts are with the families of those involved as victims in these riots around the country. We believe that such acts of violence and public [...]

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Education and schools work update

Posted in Education, News, Policy, Politics, Schools work on June 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Headlines from the world of education and schools work: New university gathers top academics to teach £18,000-a-year degrees: New College of the Humanities promises more direct teaching by likes of AC Grayling and Richard Dawkins.  A new private university in London staffed by some of the world’s most famous academics is to offer degrees in [...]

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Education and schools work update

Posted in Education, News, Policy, Politics, Schools work, Society on June 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Headlines from the world of education and schools work: Schools win right to turn away middle class children: Radical reforms could see middle-class children miss out on most popular schools due to their family’s higher income. 14,000 British professors – but only 50 are black: Leading black academics are calling for an urgent culture change [...]

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Education and schools work update

Posted in Education, News, Policy, Politics, Schools work on May 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Headlines from the world of education and schools work: British Crime Survey finds one in five children frightened by bullies: Nine out of 10 report bullying taking place at school in the past year, with boys aged 10 to 12 the most likely victims. Education spending in UK reaches £87bn: Public spending on education and [...]

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Books I have read: Barack Obama: Dreams from My Father

Posted in Books, Politics on May 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Whilst Daniel had a nap I finished Barack Obama: Dreams from My Father (A Story of Race and Inheritance) by Barack Obama.  Long before he was a candidate to be President of the United States, or even a Senate candidate, Barack Obama wrote “Dreams from My Father”.  He had been elected as the first African-American [...]

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Education and schools work update

Posted in Education, Policy, Politics, Schools work, Statistics on May 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Headlines from the world of education and schools work: Church of England to reduce school places for Christians: The Church of England is planning to put a strict limit on the number of places reserved for pupils from Christian families as part of the biggest shake-up of faith schools’ admissions policies for decades. School chaos [...]

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Alternative Vote resource for Christians

Posted in Church, Politics on April 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Whatever your view, I think it is really important for Christians to vote in the local elections and the national referendum on Thursday 5th May.  The Christian Institute have produced a briefing paper to help you as you prayerfully consider how you will cast your vote.  Their briefing considers some of the arguments from both [...]

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Education and schools work update

Posted in Education, News, Politics, Schools work, Statistics on April 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Headlines from the world of education and schools work: Schools ‘inflating GCSE results with easy courses’: The extent to which schools are inflating their results with “easier” vocational qualifications is laid bare in damning new figures. We must teach our children to love books again: The love of reading is being stifled by a constricted [...]

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Tonbridge Mayor’s Blog

Posted in Politics on April 3, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Tonbridge’s Mayor, Councillor Sue Murray, recently talked about how she’d been writing a blog during her year in office.  It’s run on the Borough Council website – with quite a bizarre structure that doesn’t make it easy to read (to look at it you have to find the correct month/week), but its great that she’s [...]

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Questions the British census forgot to ask

Posted in Politics on March 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Hilarious blog post on The Questions The British Census Forgot to Ask 7 by Nicholas Bate What is the true, representative British meal? Now, with considerably more hindsight, who is your favourite Beatle? The perfect cup of tea: milk first or second? When was The Empire at its best? What went wrong for Hugh Grant? [...]

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