Opinion: Changes for the Better – LibDem wins on the new National Curriculum
“I still have serious reservations about it, but it’s a whole lot better than when Gove originally launched the consultation” – a headteacher friend summing up his feelings about the newly announced...
View ArticleOpinion: Why Florence Nightingale should be in the National Curriculum and...
The Secretary of State for Education has decided that Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), famous for the Crimean War (1854-56) and major founder of professional nursing should be thrown out of the...
View ArticleClegg on free schools and National Curriculum: no more, no less than party...
No-one should be that surprised by Nick Clegg’s decision to distance the Lib Dems from Michael Gove’s schools policies — specifically that every teacher should be qualified and that every school should...
View ArticleEducation: 59% of Lib Dems say teachers should have formal teaching...
Lib Dem Voice has polled our members-only forum to discover what Lib Dem members think of various political issues, the Coalition, and the performance of key party figures. Some 750 party members...
View ArticleMike Storey writes: Qualified teachers and a national curriculum
“We are, and always will, be the party of education”. So Nick Clegg, the Liberal Democrat leader, said in his speech at Bloomberg last Monday. This is indeed what the Liberal Democrats stand for, and...
View ArticleOpinion: New school curriculum
I have recently written a couple of articles on Liberal Democrat Voice around changes to schools (here and here). Please read them, as they go with this one. To follow on from them I believe we also...
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