Silence of the Pink ‘Un
Another day and another good secret camera sting. This time it’s the Telegraph catching out exam board officials briefing teachers, for cash, what will be in the exams in order for their pupils to up their grades. Nearly every other paper has picked up the scoop, except one. The FT…
It’s not their education correspondent Chris Cook’s ongoing grudge against Gove that is the issue this time, instead the answer lies significantly above his pay grade. Pearson PLC who own the FT also owns Edexcel – one of the the exam boards named in the Telegraph story. Move along people, nothing to see here…
What an absolutely fantastic job the last labour government did on our education system. bullyballs should be so proud to realise he wrecked it almost singlehandedly , with the help of course of edexcel.
http://www.private-eye.co.uk/covers.php?showme=1215
Balls should never be allowed near children again.
And they shouldn’t sit on his knee when he’s dressed as Santa.
Don’t worry about this, a new German education system will be imposed on you soon. Now where are my Cameron and Sarkozy poodles and little Cleggy hamster?
So thats how you get a AAA stars.
No different to how government govern. Its all a massive Ponsi Scheme
At least the GIRLS get triple A’s now as they have X factored the whole fu-king world including the education system.. When did they last blow up a chemistry Lab. Shit can’t teach what the boys do well in. We cant have any one grow any BALLS just in case they might come back and bite the STATE. YES MEN AND WOMEN ONLY.
One law for Somali immigrants, one law for the indigenous population:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8937856/Muslim-women-not-used-to-drinking-walk-free-after-attack-on-woman.html
How come only white British are ever charged with racism?
Sick of it – shut the borders you muppets.
What the State cant allow is detering the immigration policy that will divide an conquer this country. As we have seen in the USA The constitution destroyed as most immigrants cant even read it let alone defend it.
If you go to live in Germany and then break the law (even if it’s 20 years after arriving), you’re deported. Even if you own a cat.
So why won’t our fucking useless government grow some balls and do what the public demand?
Steve – for goodness sake move away from Leicester.
It is no longer British territory.
Leicester will be one of the first places to be surrendered to Islam – they will acquire control of it and have Sharia Law and autonomy from the rest of the UK.
Leicester is a terrible place to visit now – multi culti’s look upon thy work and cower.
Yes indeed – I see the statue of St Margaret has been removed from Vaugn Way above the old Corah factory.
No christian icons allowed in Muslim lands – & Leicester is Muslim land now.
Terrifying.
Is it worse than Leeds?
Have very fond memories of ’60s Leicester.It was a great place and if I am not mistaken one of the wealthiest cities in the UK at that time.I worked there as a student summer of ’68. Lovely people.Understand it has changed out of all recognition. Tragic.
from the telegraph site.
“He said he accepted the women may have felt they were the victims of unreasonable force from Miss Page’s partner Lewis Moore, 23, who tried desperately to defend her from the attack”
In fairness he was either bladdered or the worst street fighter I have ever seen. I like to think if my wife was being attacked I would have sparked all three of them with probably three punches.
He was woeful.
I can’t see the point of educashon. I never had none and look at me. It ain’t done me no harm not having none.
No and yuve got a nieuw range rover too.
Nothing new here. Teaching to the exam has been going on for donkeys’ years. The person I took over from did it as does the person who took over from me. If you know what questions are coming up then you would be bloody negligent not to teach your students the answers.
That’s OK then Arthur. Let’s just all cheat, shall we? That’ll teach our children how to think and act.
Boy, you’re such a role model.
Actually, you’d be negligent not teaching your students how to read, write and understand the world around them. After the sh*t shower of our education system the young of the UK will encounter real life. No-one’s going to ‘coach’ them through that (unless you count Liebour’s Benefits Nation).
I’d honestly like to get a UK job applicant who can (a) write in something other than bad txt speak and (b) add up two numbers in their head without using their mobile phone. Still looking. Got a good French graduate who speaks English better than the UK applicants though. Go figure.
There is a big difference between looking at (say) the last five years exam papers and ‘question-spotting’ and targeting revision accordingly – which I did, as a student, myself back in the day. You are at least taking a gamble that the examiners might not be so lazy this year and use a variation of the same 10 or 12 questions they’ve always used.
But that is a world away from the examiners removing any doubt by telling certain, favoured, individuals which bits of the curriculum to concentrate on for this year. Nudge, nudge.
Of course Labour and teachers and their unions don’t give a hoot because these ‘improved’ exam results are used to push the myth that teachers are becoming ‘better’ and that students are becoming ‘better’ and that all that money they ‘invested’ was money well spent. And look – here’s the proof – improved results and 50% of kids at university.
Whereas all we really have is the same plankton five years older and 30K in debt before they become unemployable. As evidenced by the ‘shock’ rates of unemployment amongst 18 – 25 year-olds now that the Maximum Imbecile is no longer hiring idiots fresh out of university to hide in council offices.
The press also overlooked the publication of ‘endorsed’ textbooks written by The Examiners for the courses they were setting.
To state the bleeding obvious: grade inflation happens because all parties are incentivised to have higher grades: the exam boards compete to have the easiest papers which they know smart teachers will select in order to boost results. Throwing in extra “nudge-nudge” services makes perfect sense – the underlying concept (“easiest wins”) is the basic competitive model that prevails between the exam boards today.
Why not get a bit Austrian and introduce a gold standard? Rank all exam entries from a single board’s exam into percentiles, award an A for a top 10% placing, a B for an 11-20th percentile placing and so on. An end to “all shall have prizes” and the absurdity of needing A* grades at all. Would also make relative school performance totally transparent. And the unions would probably turn blue and explode with fury – surely a recommendation for any policy.
Rank all exam entries from a single board’s exam into percentiles, award an A for a top 10% placing, a B for an 11-20th percentile placing and so on
That’s what used to happen I believe. To allow for variation in the ‘easiness’ or ‘difficulty’ of examinations from one year to the next. Of course schools still used to shop around. I’m pretty sure our school selected an examination board which catered to a largely stupid area of the UK (as opposed to the affluent South East) figuring that by heavily weighting the number of students with wasters and dullards we, at our grammar school, stood a better chance of improved grades.
Worked too.
You’re spot on with the old ranking systems, jgm2 – at my school when we took A-levels back in 81, we didn’t indulge in question picking either. We learned the whole syllabus (and the school deliberately picked the board with the widest syllabus), because the purpose of schooling was to prepare us for life, and you never know what life’s going to throw at you.
So we now have not only grade inflation due to a change in the way grades are allocated (thus producing the mistaken impression that kids are becoming brighter and / or better taught), but also due to examination boards selling to schools a way to game the system.
No wonder the universities often have to teach first year students how to write coherent English or do moderately difficult sums, and employers have to deal with illiterate, innumerate clods with several A* GCSE passes.
The school didn’t indulge in question picking. But I did. I’m a lazy bastard. Worked all through university too. You think examination boards are/were lazy? They’re a whirlwind of imagination and industry compared to university lecturers and their question-setting.
But there is a risk and I was caught out once and had to ‘wing’ the exam.
Can’t get cross at anybody but yourself when that happens.
These ‘frontline workers’ benefit from the use of what is an essentially military metaphor to a civilian situation.
As far as dishonest use of language goes, it deserves a special place in some sort of Hall of Dishonour.
As in so many areas of modern Britain, the problems comes from the takeover of institutions by “professionals”: managers and politicians. They have a vested interest in seeing their little empires top of the whatever false league table in in fashion. Whereas if the people in charge were real practioners, it is unlikely they would allow debasement of a job they loved. Such people no longer exist, of course. Labour finally killed them off, along with honour, truth, gold reserves and thousands of Iraqi civilians – oh, and a few hundred UK military lives too. As Blair said, a new day has indeed dawned.
Well said Lord Stanstead. A deliberate Plot I imagine.
jgm2 my brother was a teacher for a few years whilst the sewer party occupied office. This kind of shit was going on wholesale with the “all must have prizes” mentality. He tried blowing the whistle on it but no one was interested. The teachers are all in on it as they want to keep their chances of climbing the greasy pole intact.
I can’t believe it. You mean, those saintly teachers are more worried about their own interests than they are about the children they teach? But the BBC told me otherwise.
Anecdotal: My niece, real sweetie, primary teacher, couldn’t place where France and Germany are on an empty outline of Europe when she started teaching. Kind o’ sums it up.
It’s not just the teachers who are only in it for their own interests. So are the nurses and the council workers and all the other self-proclaimed ‘key-workers’.
And of course the politicians.
You’er absolutely or you would be accused of being a crap teacher . Because GCSE’s alone are not good enough to get a job , so it’s vital they get passed & move on to higher education
It’s not even the exams.I remember with great difficulty trying to find revision booklets to supplement my class notes for the Shakespearean play and the novels I had to study for GCE English in 1965.I phoned Foyle’s who duly sent a flimsy A5 10 page booklet for the play. That was all that was available.Now, the revision books weigh a ton and there are about 20 to choose from.Of course this is a scam as the examining boards publish these revision books and they are very expensive.They show you how to pass the exam. In fact you wouldn’t really need to attend any classes just read their flipping books.Who needs teachers????
Does Billy work for Bell Pottinger?
Time for some old-style education:
1. Comparatives, e.g. i) as impartial as the Speaker ii) as dignified as the Speaker’s wife.
2. Superlatives, e.g. i) Gorbals Mick is more regal than Prezzer ii) lots of leftie luminaries lead champagne lives.
Next time – alliteration.
It’s called multitasking, education and the economy simultaneously wrecked. High time Balls hit the lecture circuits in the USA.
Subject – How to sweat and salute in sedentary positions.
Wassamatter bro ?? Innit.
The rot started under Shirley Williams she of unkempt appearance and sloppy personal habits.
In 1980 I had a meeting with the Head of my sons’ secondary school because I was alarmed with their poor spelling. I was told not to worry and that spelling was just a detail and irrelevant in the scheme of things. To this day, all in senior positions, they struggle without Wordcheck.
It really does surprise me how few people are aware of the great responsibility resting on Shirley Williams shoulders for the serious start of the demise of the English education system whilst the ‘edukashun’ minister in Harold Wilson’s Labour government.
I was very fortunate to attend a Grammar school and complete my O-Levels just before it was turned into a Comprehensive.
Oi! Yu spellt won of them rite – yu bin payin atenshun or sumfink?
Makes you wonder what some in the ‘education establishment’ think their responsibility is.
Do we want a system that educates youngsters to the best of their individual abilities, or a cosy cabal of mutually back-scratching education establishment insiders looking after each other?
PS – The FT is smug, santimonious, overpr*ced rubbish, which has been consistently wrong on every major economic matter for the last thirty years.
It is like window cleaner calling himself vision engineer.
Labour see the state education system as an opportunity for the indoctrination of youth.
What’s pink and hard first thing in the morning?
The FT crossword.
No FT, No comment!
What’s pink and hard in the mornings?
Clue: I don’t do crosswords
A cot-death baby?
Edexcel sounds like the spreadsheet that Blinky uses for all his dodgy calculations.
Never trust a self-proclaimed expert in spreadsheets.
They always talk bollocks.
Such a strange thing to say and yet profoundly true.
I like conditional formatting, though?
What’s the question mark for? Been watching Neighbours again have we?
The world functioned perfectly satisfactorily before the invention of spreadsheets. What’s so special about them? What’s wrong with a piece of paper, a pencil and a bit of concentration?
It would have taken Brown so much longer to reverse-engineer his budgetry forecasts without a spreadsheet.
You think he did his budgets using the goal-seek function? – would explain a lot
Given Brown’s eyesight, I suppose he might have needed the back of a roll of wallpaper. He could roll that both ways.
Oh definitely. He started from where he wanted to end and worked his way backwards.
I want to squander umpty billion quid for which I need ‘x’ growth. Therefore growth will be ‘x’.
Same as Blair’s war in Iraq. I want a war in Iraq to try and emulate Fatcher’s popularity after the Falklands and to keep my head up George Dubya’s arse therefore I need to create a ‘reason’ for a war in Iraq.
Same with their education policy. We need to ‘prove’ all this money we’re squandering is improving education therefore, four years after we get into power, we will employ every single graduate from 2001/2 and hide them in council offices and NHS corner offices. Using more borrowed money if necessary.
I need to be found ‘not guilty’ of starting the Iraq war therefore I will limit the remit of the enquiry to the single question ‘If you were given this document would it be reasonable to act as if Iraq was a clear and present danger’. No questions at all about how many times I sent the document back and had it re-written precisely so that I could use it in just such an enquiry.
And so on and so forth.
Confuscius say – Engineer with constipation works it out with pencil
Absolutly. One of mankind’s most versatile inventions, the pencil.
Pencil and paper in my day – but then maybe we had a bit more cash to spare.
Don’t forget the slide rule and the book of tables, Eng
I must be one of the last people to be taught how to use a slide rule and log tables at skool.
Never used ‘em since.
Worth reflecting that Concorde was designed with slide rules and log tables.
I used a slide rule for my O-levels (1979), just to be perverse. I even used tables rather than a calculator for Physics A-level, again out of a sense of fun, as calculators were allowed that year. One of my classmates had a whole bunch of handy stuff programmed into his TI calc, but my Sinclair Cambridge was a battery pig and besides I thought it was cheating.
Great thing about slide rules is that they don’t need batteries or throw an electronic wobbly like the early Sinclair shite. Mind you, then HP invented the RPN calculator and number crunching nirvana arrived.
Tables, otoh, have not fully disappeared if you are in engineering because you will invariably have a copy of the Zeus tables located in strategic places in the office and machine shop.
Ah yes, 4 figure log tables for O-Level and 6 figure for A-Level.
Never got on with a slide-rule, knew how to but I always found log tables easier.
Is this the same EDEXCEL / PEARSON GROUP who run the computer testing for the UKBA. The same test that born and bred English nationals have failed to pass because the questions are so ‘iffy’! A test based on UNLAWFULL regulations that have been before four UK Courts, incl the Supreme Court. where eight British Judges have ruled against the Home Secretary and told her she is trying to side-step Parliamentary scrutiny! No wonder the Home Office UKBA is in such a mess and the Home Sec can’t control immigration!
I stopped reading the FT almost a decade ago after two decades of reading it. I just could no longer stomache its breatheless cheerleading for the EU and the crony capitalism of Bliar, Berlusconi and their ilk.
+1
I used to get a free copy every morning but it wasn’t even worth that.
+104.
With so many dopey City spivs (some of whom live on here) still reading such uninformed crap, no wonder the country’s in the doo-doo.
When I worked in the City, the FT stayed in Reception.
I got a job at an American stock-brockers early in my career, and thought I’d make good impression on my first day by arriving with a copy of the FT under my arm. Everyone just laughed. They all read The Sun.
Yes.It’s been discredited for a long time now. I’m surprised that it’s still going.
Fanx 2 laybear, i Gott rEALy guD eDJUkayshon.
Free Emma West
Free Fred West
Bit late for him, wouldn’t you say?
Free Ambaro Maxamed, Ayan Maxamed, Hibo Maxamed and Ifrah Nur.
Oh, they were never gaoled.
(‘Kill the white slag’)
Free Willy.
A slap on the wrist for racially aggravated ABH on a white girl, but jail with no bail for complaining about immigration on a tram. The white English are second class citizens in their own Country.
But she is in custody “for her own protection”. It said so in the paper, so it must be true.
They could have just sectioned her and put her in hospital, but no – jail it is. And all for speaking the truth.
I’m sorry but I don’t know what you’re talking about, I haven’t seen or read anything about this.
Move along please, nothing to see here…
Watch the whole thing:
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2011/12/07/female-gang-who-attacked-woman-spared-jail_n_1133734.html
Is it okay to say ‘Islamic trash’? Or is that wrong for white English people?
Thank god we have clever liblabcon judges who understand these things so we don’t have to.
That’s OK – a Jamaican friend describes Somalis as “fucking savages”. Even the other Muslims can’t stand them.
Paragnostic – there was a news item a while back that said London-based immigrants hated Somali immigrants for giving immigrants a bad name.
Of course, the government’s refusal to even mention the problem, let alone tackle it, gives parliamentary democracy a bad name, too.
Notice also how the murder of a white lad in London last weekend by an ethnic gang soon disappeared from the news after barely a day.
State policy seems to be ‘play up race attacks by whites, play down race attacks on whites’.
Only Whites can be racist, only males can be sexist.
That’s what Ed says? What do most English people think?
Another farce! Answer must surely be to scrap all examining boards and replace with a single entity with questions drawn from any part of the curriculum.
Or (the Libertarian stance?) allow skools to set their own exams, as happened before the onset of O levels.
More seriously, why not adopt the International Baccalaureate program in full? It starts at age 3, is an internationally recognised set of qualifications and would be less susceptible to degradation.
Because most of our students will fail it. Not good for the ever-sustaining Liebour politik view of the sun ever rising over the potato fields (shiny new tractors at every gate).
It’s a bit like asking the BoE to stop doing QE. The moment they do we’ll have a 5-10% economic contraction. Not good for the ‘safe-haven’ nonsense peddled by Libeour-Lite Georgey ‘don’t call me Darling’ Osborne. So we’ll keep doing QE until someone far more sensible takes the toys away.
Likewise with the education system. Grade inflation until all of our young are drooling spastics incapable of drawing a cross for their signature. It started in Europe (or was it Amercia?). No, honest, it really did (f*ckwits).
Schools shouldn’t produce winners. Everyone must be equal. Competitiveness is wrong.
A friend attended a state skool which firmly adhered to the principle of excellence – he came top of his class – and was awarded two boiled sweets at the Founders Day for achievement. Every other pupil received a single sweet for trying.
He felt cheated and his parents were incandescent.
It would have been discriminatory not to give the others a sweet.
That’ll look good on the cv; awarded 2 boiled sweets for being top student in class. ROFLMHO.
Did he turn into a fatty?
No but I did when I didn’t pass my 11+ and so my dad didn’t buy me a bicycle and so I got fat.
I had my revenge mind you. My government destroyed everybodys education for an entire generation. That’ll teach you for failing me on my 11+.
You also destroyed the housing stock you great plonker. Anybody watching Channel 4 over the last three nights will have seen the great Pathfinder scandal. Hundreds of thousands of houses left empty and £2 billion wasted.People living in lovely old Victorian houses, turfed out by Prezza’s henchmen.Whole communities in the north of England scattered around,rehoused in flimsy plywood gerry-built monstrosities.You only have to look at the badly designed new council houses in places like Lambeth to see crappy design.Within 10 years they will be slums. Well done Pie-face. The joke is that Nu-Liebor chatterers and MPs just love to live in these solid Victorian houses themselves but deny others the same opportunity.
At my secondary school only two people per class of 35 got prizes.The first prize was awarded to the best pupil and the second prize was for the most improved.In the last school I worked there were 22 pupils in a class yet 10 pupils in each class got a prize
This was in reply to 36 MrAngry61.
Cash for questions – will not go away.
We made sure cash for peerages went away.
Cash for US Senate seat– now Rod Blagojevich is going away.
http://news.yahoo.com/blagojevich-gets-14-years-prison-corruption-183334615.html
One day you’re getting bunged up, the next day you’re getting banged up.
Union cash for questions, or the Bell Pottinger bullshitters?
So What! Schools must not produce winners.
So thats what the new english teacher gets up to in the common room at break.
One can’t help feeling the pink’un is just as bent as the rest when it comes to unpalatable home truths.
I thought the FT was above making it up to suit their argument clearly no better than the gutter press then!
The europhilic stance, especially in the Comment pages is sickening. And the articles (with the notable exception of some of the guest business leaders) tended to sophistry and pedantry, exactly like a Marxist polemic.
http://rt.com/news/fox-moscow-fake-riots-281/
FOX Lies!
Fox News caught banged to rights by Russia Today.
I wonder why Sky News isn’t reporting this
Never apologise, never explain
lol
Oh er….
Morning Guido/Neo Guido *Waves* and fellow window lickers
No Billy, Screw Fix is not a dating agency.
Please don’t take gordon to see them.
Does anyone think I need help ??
Don’t bother waking up tomorrow
Sarah Brown frightens me very much. So much so, I have to
buy some sweets after exposure.
“Woke up this morning wondering how the pandas are settling in” is in fact a blues classic, first recorded in 1947 by Eustace “Syphilis” Waller.
Is there no professional help available for this woman. Perhaps on the national health as I understand neither she nor her husband directly receive any money for the very wonderful work they undertake on behalf of the world. She needs help, free treatment for her would be the right thing to do
“Blind Dave” Blunkett’s version, accompanied by acapella howls from Lucy, is universally acknowledged to be fucking awful and thus in the best traditions of Labour.
The financial times
When Ed Balls removed science from the KS2 SATs exams I thought at the time that there could be no educational reason or benefit for doing so.
With the recent revelation of Labour asking the unions for their input into parliamentary affairs the penny dropped.
Balls is bad for childrens education.
bullyballs was disastrous for our children’s education. I’m not much of a fan of the coalition but at least Gove seems to be improving things.
True, Gove does seem to have a passion for education, speaks his mind and is certainly on the ball.
Balls was never on the ball.
Do I get a prize for helping ruin the education system and also destroying the U.K’s finances ?
Oh, wait – we don’t believe in giving out prizes in Liebour, do we ?
Not to mention abolishing teaching of foreign languages in schools – and his chum MiliMajor closing the FO’s own language school – just when the world is becoming a smaller place. We now have children/young adults who can barely scrape by in English let alone the language and culture of another country.
Then WTF does Hague not reopen it? Britdips around the world are (or now maybe were) famed for their excellent mastery of the local language(s) in whichever country they were posted. Still not too late to catch up. Mind you, many of them arrived already having A level or higher language competence. But if foreign languages are no longer taught in schools, that might be a problem for the newbies.
To be fair, Hague is reopening it – and more besides:
http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/news/latest-news/?view=Speech&id=652930982
An interesting speech, despite his taste in SpAds.
Should have gone to Edexcel. Then France would still have A*A*A* rating.
True, but so would Zimbabwe.
If the wheels fell off you will have to blame that Clarkson bloke for cornering too fast and too deep
Trashbin Alibi Clown on Channel 5. She says Yvette Cooper should be Labour leader.
What people really want to know is…
What people are asking me on the doorsteps of my constituency are…
What people reslly want to know is…. when is Gasbag Ali Baba going to fuck off back to Africa where it is now quite safe to live?
Ditto what people are asking on their doorsteps.
Havent the hordes of Jocks come down to get Matthew Wright yet?
seemingly she is the most racially abused woman on telly. Good!
Trashbin Alibi Clown just said Cameron is not a good looking man. Isn’t this the same Trashbin who always condemns ad hominem attacks?
She’s not really a stunner herself
I would
Stick to ref’ing football matches, it’s what you do best. I’ve seen your work on more occasions than I can count.
She’s not a good-looking man either.
Trashbin Alibi Clown just said Cameron is not a good looking man
IMO she’s making an unintentionally valid point. Dave was selected/elected partly because of his slick, photogenic ‘heir to Blair’ phenotype.
If he’s aging gracelessly there’s even less reason for the proles to vote for him.
If he’s aging gracelessly
It’s a phenomenon that I used to find more noticeable with world rulers. You could see Fatcher age under the enormous responsibility. Not so John Major or George Dubya. Mainly because I don’t think either of them had the slightest grasp of the enormity of their responsibility.
Blair didn’t age too much in power either but then he’s a psychopath so you wouldn’t expect him to bother too much about the potential consequences of his actions. Likewise Brown.
Likewise Obama. He doesn’t seem to be ageing much either. Another psychopath. The real heir to Blair.
Iv mi teechur adunt cheetid
an elped me wiv me eggsams i wunt av got 9 strayt g’s init !
I’m 100% committed to social justice too. You get out what you put in. What could be more socially justified than that?
You fuckers have perverted it to meaning you get out what some other stupid bastard pays in.
What do you think he means by “Labour to the core”? – milker of expenses and believer of having right to benefits he was not entitled to?
I thought you were only supposed to say nice things about people when they died – ‘Labour to the core’ seems a pretty spitefull and mean spiited remark to me
‘Labour to the core’ seems a pretty spitefull and mean spiited remark to me
Indeed.
Like proclaiming somebody is a ‘brilliant politician’. Right up there with being remembered as a ‘brilliant mass-murderer’ or a ‘brilliant liar’.
Had either of these two had recent meetings with Gordon Brown?
He was a gifted trougher too, wasn’t he ?
Labour to the core = Deep down, he’s all right.
Alan Keen and his ghastly wife troughed and troughed and troughed their way through the expense scandal. Labour to his core alright.Bought a luxury flat near Westminster on expenses paid for by the British taxpayer.He and his wife lived half an hour from Westminster. but couldn’t be ar….d to go home every night.Greedy b………ds
Any chance of a tweet about Gordon then Ed?
Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Ergo knowledge corrupts.
Consequently the ploy to curtail / bend education standards by limiting their scope can easily mislead the dregs of an electorate into thinking that they are more educated than they really are. This has been and always will be Labour’s lever into power. Sheep to the slaughter!
http://search.dilbert.com/search?day1=28&mth1=05&yr1=1989&day2=28&mth2=05&yr2=1989&x=65&y=20
WJEC felt the need to give advice on how to pass their exams? Even twenty years ago, they were notorious amongst teachers for setting the bar to success the lowest. It is hard to imagine that they have not ridden the wave of grade inflation with all the rest.
Of course this never happened under Labour. Just like the phone hacking is all the fault of the T*ry/Murdoch press who certainly did not do anything like this while they were supporting Labour.
We are whiter than white
Hello landlord.
Yo bro – an ah is blacka dan blackk. U B wacist?
Well, we would be, had you listened to me 40 years ago.
Billy do you Frenchman on the loo limerick again.
It’s needed now more than ever with the credit agencies trigger finger getting itchy.
A Frenchman went into the lavatory
And he was there for half a day
When he finished he couldn’t find the paper
So he shouted out in dismay
Ou est le papier?
Ou est le papier?
Monsieur, monsieur, je fais manure
Ou est le papier ?
+0.32
Today the provincial governors are summoned to a meeting where they will be given new orders.
The measures will further develop the economy and greater glory of the Fatherland.
Seig Heil.
Are there any institutions not infiltrated by marxist placemen these day? I can think of only one……Top Gear. Little wonder lefty/green bedwetters start foaming at the mouth at the very mention of Jeremy Clarkson FFS.
Top Gear went off the rails went that nice Mr. Baxter left, dear.
Er, that was Tomorrows World granma.
The FT-another example of a once admired British institution that has been discredited and devalued by the perverse values of our left-liberal ruling class.
Probalby cost that much to chisel the bogies of Brown’s wall and fill in the nokia dents – anyway not doing so would have taken money out of the economy thus causing the recession
Would have cost that much to successfully fumigate it.
Note I used the word “successfully”.
Why not just burn Number 10 to the ground and replace it with a garden of remembrance?
“Here lived successive leaders of British democracy, 1735-1973″.
Well, Conservative Central Office has been rededicated to the greater glory of the United States of Europe, so your idea is in line with the thinking of the Bundesregierung.
How about making it the new home of Frau Merkel’s ambassador here?
Media outlet doesn’t cover article due to vested interest shocker.
I only come on here for the comedy.
Dear Mr I Amascammer
I have deposited the money you have requested please let me know when the money will be put into my account.
King Regards
Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP
ME
I advertised for an administrator. One of the candidates, Julie, who worked at the town hall, turned up. Julie was a man dressed as a woman.
Our “right on” friend asked if I gave “it” the job.
“No”
“Why not?”
“Hes obviously fucking mental”
She was appalled. Not as appalled as the time I told her I had a baseball bat next to our bed.
“What for?”
“To smash over intruders heads”
“But……. what if they are on drugs?” (Her reasoning being the poor dears cant help it)
“All the more reason to hit them harder”
What if they are simply nasty, greedy, criminal bastards who just can’t help themselves or who just can’t manage on benefits? Surely you would take pity on them?
Do people read the FT?
Deafining silence from the teaching unions. Not surprising really, if you flick through ATL’s consultation response on GCSE changes, published a month ago:
https://www.atl.org.uk/Images/ATL%20submission%20to%20Ofqual%20consultation%20on%20GCSE%20Reform%20-%20NE%20submitted%20FINAL.pdf
This bloody 2012 running and jumping show seems to be costing the whole country a helluva lot – £9.3 billion? – just to subsidise East London.
Don’t blame East London for this bollocks. They have suffered huge destruction of houses and businesses and will be left with a large bill for a huge pile of junk rapidly disintegrating as it sinks into the marshland. And they will not even be able to enter their own homes while the nonsense is operating in case they hold up important people – fucking foreigners as usual.
This whole thing is a jolly for the liblabcon mis-rulers and has no other benefit or purpose. Even the opening ceremony (- the onlt bit most people ever bother with) will be dominated by the BBC with their shitty camera work designed to avoid showing as much as possible of anything at all that viewers might find interesting or entertaining.