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Great for @ShippersUnbound to have such an informed reshuffle piece, but aides briefing on reshuffles causes mayhem – angry ministers start demanding private reassurances and counter-briefing begins. Soon someone asks: are sure we *really* want to do this? pic.twitter.com/E9f99pWHJ5
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Hunt Vs Mordaunt for the leadership.
Will be a disaster if Greening goes and is replaced by another meddlesome fool in the Gove/Morgan/Balls tradition.
Overall I would be surprised if the reconstruction was as extensive as predicted. That would mean a third of the Cabinet removed in less than three months, which would compare with Macmillan's Night of the Long Knives. She doesn't have Macmillan's majority and cannot afford the trouble it would cause.
If she does go for it, I expect her to be out by Easter with Hammond taking over.
Johnny Mercer, your time is coming.
I'd put a strong emphasis on history, maths, and the sciences.
I'd be the greatest Education Secretary ever, as I'd push up standards like never before.
We should just teach history all the time.
We don't need any of this bollocks about 2+2=4.
Edit - incidentally one thing I did do this year is quit my union, although I have joined a different one. One quite niche story looming in education is that a super-union has been created from the ATL and the NUT, and it is a car crash before it's even properly merged. It's too big, too clumsy and profoundly undemocratic and I can foresee lawsuits.
Which will of course make life just a little easier for the government as at a difficult time one of the main teaching unions, representing I believe the majority of teachers and ancillary staff, is going to be fighting amongst itself.
Teach the sciences/astronomy by explaining the trial of Galileo.
Further: Arithmatic-operators do not conform to current (and future) biometrics: What happens to a negative receiver? To be a fluid-constant surely the receiver should befine the power behind the coupling.*
[* Cooking dinner and am bored.]
I said I was happy to do it on my own terms, as long as I could teach it as somebody with training in economics. On being asked what I meant, I proceeded to demonstrate that one equals between four and six depending on the parameters you set.
Strangely I wasn't asked again.
Instead, experts were allowed to speak on the state of democracy worldwide.
Click bait title? Yes.
But the show was worth a listen.
One of the reasons why I'm in favour of abolishing the monarchy.
Right now I'm reading Kill Them All - Cathars and Carnage in the Albigensian Crusade, by Sean McGlynn.
So the top job in this country is limited to a select few.
The only cut through would be a change of leader.
But I was thinking more that the papers themselves are not very rigorous. For example in history you now have blind source material on every paper, not one in three as before, and instead of comparing you just critique them in isolation, which is a truly pointless exercise. You also answer two essay questions, but less detail is required than before.
Are you saying the frequency of acid attacks hasn't significantly increased in recent times?
We shall see but yes May has to be careful a second 'night of the long knives' does not create too many more enemies of her.
Real value was in 1963 when I took my 'A' levels.
Also in those days men were men - and women were glad of it.
Although hopefully she won't have all her enemies shot, bludgeoned to death with an axe, drowned in a river or beheaded the way the first one did.
If Corbyn could pass A-levels in 1967, we must assume either you are wrong or there was a sudden dramatic drop in standards in four short years.
Not sure Is Democracy Pretty Much Where it was 5 Years Ago? would have worked as a title though...
A party which pledges to give the NHS "£350m per week" by 2022, raise the minimum wage to £12.50 per hour by the end of 2022 and commission a million affordable homes for sale exclusively to non-investor FTBs would do very well.
I think all of that is well within the realms of possibility for either party tbh, though Labour would probably make them social housing for rent rather than affordable housing for private ownership, which is why the Tories must offer ownership before Labour can create 2-3m new social tenants.
The only questions worth asking are those which have trade offs.
When did serious grade inflation start? I'd have imagined it was it was from 1997 onwards, but I'm sure there was (and is) a background level of inflation.
Does anyone know anyone that got a 4th? (Oxford).
According to Wiki, Corbyn achieved two E-grade A-Levels before leaving school at 18.
At University one maths exam was so difficult only one student passed before all the marks were scaled up. The one who passed (Sun Soon Lim from Malaysia) was given 140% to allow the bulk of us to get over the pass mark.
http://www.bstubbs.co.uk/a-lev.htm
There doesn't seem to be any one moment where it 'took off' in that timeframe but the greatest jump appears to have been around 2001 for most subjects - curiously the last year of the old A-levels.
Edit - on a very careful check the largest jump overall was indeed in 2002. But grades had been steadily rising for a long time before that.
If you're in favour of grammar schools, then you're an enemy of social mobility.
Why are public schoolboys so against Grammar schools? I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you were a good Grammar school lad, but why was Tony Crossland so against them - the posh git.
https://youtu.be/pj-1b1Yvep8
https://yougov.co.uk/news/2015/09/08/monarchy-here-stay/
I'm in favour of not leaving any child behind.
Everyone else, quick! onto the merits of pineapple on pizza and Hannibal so we don't get an AV thread.
The only 'affordable' element of affordable housing is the rented part which must be no more than 80% that of the market rental.
So for shared ownership (part rental part purchase), the rented element can be subsidised but the purchased element should be at market value.
Well said, Mr Eagles. Don't drink too much tonight.
That is an entirely serious comment but unfortunately I can't expand on it too much.
But otherwise it is a very good school. Indeed my grandfather went there (a little before even Corbyn) and it set him up for a brilliant career in banking.
Grammar schools increase competition at the top so reduce the public school monopoly of elite schools, indeed many private schools saw falling rolls when grammars were at their peak in the 1950s and early 1960s, why pay for an education you can get free? Plus of course from 1964 we had no private school educated PMs for 33 years, since 1997 In the last 20 years we have had an Old Etonian PM and a PM educated at Fettes, the Eton of Scotland
I am intrigued however that it is making the link to the independent sector (and it always has been de facto an independent school) so very explicit. I wonder if this presages a Manchester style Declaration of Independence?
Edit - if you thought my comment was an oblique reference to that, unfortunately it wasn't. It was a reference to the standard of teaching in the History department at Adams.
Tory position is nowhere near as bad as is painted. Simply by executing Brexit and making sure there are more homeowners I suspect the Tories prevent a Labour government.
If you can afford to pay fees, you can certainly afford to move to places where there are good State schools.
This is what I get for logging out of PB for a few hours.