A report by Carol Voderman for the British government says that almost half of  English children are leaving school at 16 without managing a C or better in their maths GCSE’s and they should all study maths until they are 18. The report also says that 300,000 16 year old English students leave school every [...]

SCOTTISH universities have received 5,000 fewer applications from students south of the Border wanting to take their degrees in Scotland amid claims that the recession and uncertainty over fees are causing undergraduates to stay closer to home.  That’s the Scotsman’s theory on why Scottish universities are seeing a drop in the number of English students [...]

Members of the NUT and ATL teachers’ unions are going on strike next week over proposals to make changes to their taxpayer-subsidised gold-plated pensions. The Hutton Report recommends raising the retirement age, paying less out and requiring more in contributions and it is this suggestion that public sector workers should feel some of the pain [...]

Nick Clegg has told the Daily Telegraph that it is right English students should have to pay up to £9k per year to go to university while Scottish students should study for free. He said that under devolution it is right that there should be differences in the two nations and he’s absolutely right – [...]

#2 son is due to start secondary school next year and we’ve just put in his application for the same school #1 goes to and his preferences for the LEA-controlled schools. #1 son goes to an excellent independent school (top performing state secondary in England) and #2 son wants to go there as well but [...]

The MP for Kirkcaldy & Cowdenbeath in Scotland standing in front of a British flag talking telling us his latest plan to balls up the English education system. Perverse. And does No Mandate Brown mention the country he’s talking about once in his 30 minute election address speech? Of course not!  But he does talk [...]

A primary school in Inverness has cancelled an adventure holiday for its pupils after the mother of a disabled pupil threatened to sue the school for discrimination because her daughter was incapable of taking part. Rather than tell the idiot mother to crawl back under whatever rock she’d dragged herself out from underneath, Highland Council [...]

Peter Mandelson, the unelected British English Business Secretary, has announced over half a billion pounds in budget cuts for English universities and told them to protect quality and access to higher education at the same time. The Scottish Chancellor announced £600m of cuts for English universities in his pre-budget report a few weeks ago and it [...]

#2 came home from school today with a letter offering him a trip to Arthog for a week. Arthog is an outdoor adventure centre in Snowdonia owned by Telford & Wrekin Council (our local authority) that’s used mainly by schools in Shropshire. This trip costs £200 for 5 days – not the cheapest school trip [...]

Three years ago one of my kids was punished for “racism” at school after he called one of his black friends a monkey when we was pulling monkey faces and making monkey noises. The Manifesto Club has finally noticed that something is seriously amiss when primary and nursery school kids are being accused of racism [...]

Liebour’s pet far-left extremists, the IPPR, have suggested that students from “middle class” families in England should be refused student loans to pay tuition fees to make more money available to students from poor families who are more likely to vote Liebour. They are also calling for grants and bursaries to be restricted to students [...]

Peter Mandelson, the unelected Minister for English Business and Enterprise, who also has responsibility for English Higher Education, is considering allowing an increase in English university tuition fees. Tuition fees were introduced in England after Scottish Labour MPs were whipped to vote in favour because a majority of English MPs were opposed to them.  Without [...]

  The British government is putting an extra £200m into the English education budget to fund extra places as shortages have reported. The extra £200m will, of course, trigger a corresponding bonus for the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish budgets whether they need it or not thanks to the Barnett Bribe.  The population of Scotland, Wales and [...]

My boys came home from school today with their school reports. #1 goes to secondary school in September so this is his final report from primary school.  The expectation for the average child in his year was 4a or 4b – he got five 5a’s.  A child geting a level 5 in year 9 at [...]

My eldest is starting secondary school school next year and we’ve been doing the school open day circuit. Sunday was the Thomas Telford School, one of the best independent schools in the country.  We won’t find out until March if he’s been selected to go there.  Last night was the Lord Silkin School, the closest [...]

The primary school that my children go to has a School Council which gets the kids involved in how the school is run and even how some of the money is spent. Last year the children who wanted to take part stood for election and were voted in by their peers.  However, next year (this [...]

Lord Goldsmith, the former British Attorney General, has told No Mandate Brown that children should have to go through a citizenship ceremony when they leave school and pledge alliegence to the Queen like they do in the US to their flag to promote Britishness. The Scottish government have, of course, rejected this out of hand [...]

Getting your children into a decent school and getting them a decent education is already enough of a lottery without the latest batshit scheme from British government. Today saw the introduction of new admissions rules for English schools that will see English children getting allocated places at English schools based on a lottery system.  You [...]

According to that last bastion of objective reporting, the Sun, school children are being punished for wearing clothes with England flags on them or even for being dropped off at school in cars with England flags on them. Normally I’d take anything the Sun says with a pinch sack of salt but in this case [...]

The British government plans to allocate every 14 year old child in England a unique ID number which could be tied to the national ID database and will be used to provide access to school records for potential employers and the state. The Education & Skills Bill – which only applies to England, not the [...]