Comments on: Ed Balls shows he is more politician than Cabinet Minister

By: Neil Craig

Neil Craig — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:08:16 +0000

I suppose the alternate to that soundbite would be to say that Labour promise to make every student above average & the Tories only a minority.

Reply: Ten years into a Labour government and still half of all the people are on below average earnings!

By: judy from the north

judy from the north — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:28:01 +0000

i am so glad someone saw how awful Ed Balls was in the debate yesterday it was an old style politics.He never gave ministers chance to debate it was bash the tories the whole time until the speaker told him to get on with it.Am i alone in thinking he is Auther Scargill in disguise

By: Letters From A Tory

Letters From A Tory — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 07:56:26 +0000

Excellence for everyone, Ed?

Maybe someone should remind him that universities and employers are refusing to accept his new 14-19 diplomas on the basis that they are pathetic qualifications?

http://lettersfromatory.wordpress.com

By: Cliff

Cliff — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:43:14 +0000

Is Ed Balls short for Education Balls up?

We need to take politicians out of education and trust the professionals.

We teach children from a very young age to pass tests, this in my opinion is wrong. These tests are on very narrow subjects. We should be teaching a wider curriculum in order to make lessons interesting and stimulating. Children will take in information they find interesting and information that is presented in a lively entertaining way.

It seems the government move the goalposts every year or so with education, they need to stop now, well actually after they have implemented real Conservative educational reforms based on Grammar, technical and secondary modern schools. Just because the idea is old, it does not mean it is wrong.