In the Daily Telegraph this week, David Conway writes on the subject of his new book, Liberal Education and the National Curriculum, published by Civitas. ‘Critics of the national curriculum – and they are legion in our classrooms and teacher training colleges – seem curiously unaware that the first person to propose such a curriculum… [Read More]
Schools Secretary Ed Balls recently announced that, under the rubric of the new Personal, Social, Health and Economic curriculum to be introduced from September 2011, children as young as five will be given lessons on how to save. Editorial columns have greeted the announcement with derision, rightly commenting on the irony involved.
The recent decision by the Vatican to recognise Pius Xll as someone possessed of the three heroic virtues of faith, hope and charity has reignited controversy about the war-time Pope.
The latest salvo by the BMA in its ‘Look after our NHS’ campaign (i.e. get rid of the market) is to ask the following question, in a poll carried out by Doctors.net.uk: “The BMA’s ‘Look after our NHS’ campaign is concerned that some large multinational companies are making profits out of running local clinical services… [Read More]
Ever since exhorting indigent parishioners to meet vital needs by shop-lifting from large chain stores rather than by resorting to mugging or prostitution, Rev. Tim Jones has really had it in the dog-collar from those accusing him of having contravened the teachings of his religion.
The change in times seems marked. In its 2002 command paper, Delivering the NHS Plan, the government adopted a new paradigm that choice and competition was the means to a more efficient and responsive service: ‘If it is to better respond to the needs of patients the NHS can no longer be run as a… [Read More]
Weeding out the rogues from the refined is a particularly difficult task for—often very vulnerable—people in search of a private psychotherapist or counsellor. Scanning through the myriad of entries in the Yellow Pages makes for an interesting, if not distressing, task.
The EU has finalised the 2010 deal on its Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) setting the total allowable catches (TACs) to dictate the amount of fish which can legally be caught in the EU waters next year.
Irrespective of whether it is utter bilge or compulsive viewing, the massive popularity of ‘the X Factor’ reveals in the country a deep need for which the just concluded weekly TV singing talent contest apparently is able to cater admirably.
From good to great. The latest ‘vision’ for the NHS. But if it is one, it is wholly unclear. Rather, it is a typical mish-mash of government rhetoric, loud on promise, short on reality. Read the introduction and tell me what the vision is…