Sir Jim said that combining traditional subjects in themed ‘learning areas’ and introducing more practical and applied teaching would help pupils to make use of their knowledge in real-life situations, such as in managing their own finances. He said that traditional subjects needed to be taught in a different way to make lessons more relevant to children. ‘We are certainly not getting rid of subjects such ‘Human rights’ culture has done serious and fundamental damage to traditional English liberties. This is for a number of reasons. 1) The ‘rights’ that that it claims are universal are nothing of the kind. Because they are balanced by competing rights they are highly contingent on the whims and prejudices of individual judges to decide which of them comes out...
Monday, 8th December 2008
Groundhog day in primary school
12:49pm
It’s groundhog day all over again. A report being published today by the former education inspector Sir Jim Rose is apparently proposing that traditional subjects such as history, geography and religious studies should be replaced in primary schools by a merged ‘human, social and environmental’ learning programme. Information technology classes would be given as much prominence as literacy and numeracy, and foreign languages would be taught in tandem with English:
...'Rights'? Wrong!
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In an exclusive in today’s Daily Mail the Justice Secretary, Jack Straw, confides that the Human Rights Act has become a serious problem. He says he is ‘frustrated’ that the courts have interpreted it to prevent the deportation of terrorism suspects or to allow prisoners to avoid punishment. He proposes instead to bring in a bill of ‘rights and responsibilities’ – with requirements, for example, to obey the law and be loyal to the country.
Monday, 8 December 2008
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