Ian C

If this is not new (or recent)- do you accept it as propaganda -

Phil Sheldon

Perm any 1 from 7 of these plonkers:

Department for Education and Skills Ministerial Team
Secretary of State for Education and Skills:
The Rt. Hon. Alan Johnson MP

Has overall responsibility for:

The Department, its policies and strategy
Finance and public expenditure
Economic issues
Major appointments

Minister of State for Schools and 14 - 19 learners:
Jim Knight

Responsibility

Takes an overview of all schools strategy, with a particular focus on: transforming secondary schools; behaviour; 14-19 learners; school funding and capital including Building Schools for the Future; remodelling the school workforce; and raising standards across the board. His specific responsibilities are:
Transforming secondary education


Minister for Children, Young People and Families:
RT HON Beverley Hughes MP

Responsibility
Beverley Hughes has overarching responsibility for children, young people & families policy and the Every Child Matters programme, including leading work across government and working closely with the new Social Exclusion Minister. She will chair the departmental safeguarding board and maintain an overview of all areas.

Every Child Matters: strategy, change & performance


Minister of State for Lifelong Learning, Further and Higher Education :
Bill Rammell MP

Responsibility
Takes an overview of HE, FE, international relations, adult skills, the LSC and lifelong learning ensuring the overall coherence of all post-19 policy. He will take a direct lead on Higher Education issues and the reform of Further Education including the FE Bill and implementation of the FE White Paper, on which Phil Hope will support him. Bill Rammell will also lead on the LSC, its budget and operational performance. His specific areas of responsibility are:


Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Children, Young People and Families
Parmjit Dhanda MP

Responsibility
Parmjit Dhanda has specific responsibilities on which he will report to the Secretary of State. These will include 3 PSA targets; a new strategic responsibility for DfES interests in children's health; a new lead responsibility for the Department's parenting strategy and the lead on the DfES interest in the HMT Third Sector Review and in the Voluntary & Community Sector more generally. He will also be the department's lead on sustainability.



Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Skills:
Phil Hope MP

Responsibility
He has a specific focus on adult skills and vocational education. He will also support Bill Rammell on the reform of FE. His specific areas of responsibility are:

Adult skills

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Schools:
Lord Andrew Adonis

Responsibility
Has a particular focus on Primary schools, the school curriculum and SEN disability and the delivery of the Academies and Trusts programme and the London Challenge. His specific responsibilities are:

Raising standards in Primary Schools

National strategies
Primary school curriculum
Class sizes
The school curriculum

Science, Design and Technology, History, Geography, English, Maths, RE, Sex Education, Citizenship, Modern Foreign Languages, PSHE (working with Parmjit Dhanda) and Playing for Success. Drug and alcohol education (working with Parmjit Dhanda)

http://www.dfes.gov.uk/aboutus/whosw...tersinfo.shtml

Why does it take seven people to ****-up the education system?
Johnson is very capable of doing this on his own.

prober

Havnt people heard of " socialist physics " from Marxist theory , put into practice in early Soviet Union 5 yr plans leading to theoretical meeting of people's progress development targets eg oil refinery development ( & shooting those that failed to meet them or cook the books sufficiently). All students should get a pass as hot/cold etc is merely relative & their opinion is as good as the "experts".

tito

I am sitting this very AQA Physics exam tomorrow morning.

C_steam

Be fair. Not all of them are bad. Hope and Rammell are trying to do a good job, and heavily involving industry in implementing the leitch report.

I met Rammell - seemed a fair bloke who understood his subject.

mkpdavies

Remember to what is the most evil nightmare to hit the world is co2. The only force that can prevent it destroying the earth is the EU.

BTW, my Mrs has just watched 3 episodes of Corination Street (yes I know this is grounds for divorce). All 3 episodes contained Global Warming brainwashing. They certainly know which media outletd to target.

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tito

OK, did the exam. He was right, ****** all to do with physics. I kid you not, this was a question, without any previous information or implication

"Describe an advantage of CCTV and a disadvantage of CCTV". I felt like screaming "Advantages for what? Compared to what?

Given the nature of the rest of the paper I assumed it meant ethically.

There was also "What is the SETI project" and something about the disadvantages of nuclear power.

I did get to write a disadvantage of wind power, because I've studied the syllabus I know they wanted me to write they are unsightly and expansive. This has sweet FA to do with physics.

There was a question on why EU "a" regulated fridges are better and how much money they save you. Which was a matter of taking one made up number from another.

My friend got bored and worked out that around 18% of the marks were awarded for physics-related calculations and relevant factual questions. The rest was ethics, politics and pitifully obvious facts. Oh, and lies: who wires security lights to AND gate and relays?

John Carter

Tito, please tell me you're BSing.

g hall

John CarterI'm afraid he's not all teaching in this country is influenced by the Islingtonia movement fortunately not all students believe what they are told.
Wait til they bring in psuedo psychometric testing for right think

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tito

No I'm not. I had a traditional physics teacher and believe I have a strong grasp of true physical concepts. But this exam was so far off the mark I nearly walked out.
I will draft a letter of complaint over the weekend. To think the people who will be our future engineers could get into university with such appalling education is sickening, fare well British engineering.