News from around the world of education and schools work:
- Faith schools ‘should not select on religion’: Religious schools should be stripped of their right to select pupils according to faith or lose their state funding, according to a two-year study into church and other faith-based state schools.
- Jonathan Romain: Faith schools can and should operate without discriminating on the basis of belief: Jonathan Romain: The Runnymede Trust is right: faith schools can and should operate without discriminating on the basis of belief
- Most adults feel exams failed to gauge real ability: 77 per cent of adults believe that exam results should not be used to judge their suitability for jobs
- Scrap history lessons in primary, says study: Traditional lessons in history, geography and science should be removed from the primary curriculum and children taught their essential content through cross-curricular themed classes, the biggest inquiry into primary schooling in a generation has reported
- Experts caution against themed classes: Subject associations have voiced concern about proposals to move away from traditional subjects in favour of themed classes in primary schools.
- Rose calls for review of primary Sats: Ministers should put the Sats system of testing primary pupils under review to help free up schools to teach more in depth, according to the government’s chief adviser on primaries.
- Dramatic improvement in science and maths: A Sharp improvement in the performance of 14-year-olds taking maths and science in England has been revealed in an international study.
- England’s playgrounds get million-pound makeover: England’s playgrounds are to be given a £235m makeover from next spring, ministers revealed
- Ofsted proposes whistleblowers hotline for child abuse cases: Ofsted considers introducing a ‘whistleblower hotline’ for social workers in light of Baby P case
- Most UK toddlers ‘cared for out of home’: A childcare revolution has meant the majority of toddlers in the UK are for the first time cared for outside the home before they reach the age of one, according to a major international study published today.
“he deserved to be brought to justice”
I’ve been struggling with this all day – the use of the word justice, by everyone from Obama to the man on the street (or Facebook). I agree with the statement above, but don’t agree that’s what has happened.
Whatever Bin Laden’s crimes (numerous & hideous), surely he deserved justice. Killing Bin Laden doesn’t bring about justice for anyone. Taking him alive to be charged and tried and then sentenced would. But it seems the US feel quite at ease about denying a trial to people they don’t agree with (see Guantanamo Bay).
The justice issue is always a tough one. More thoughts here:
http://youthpasta.blogspot.com/2011/05/death-to-enemy.html