Labour Education Crisis - Newspaper Article

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Labour Education Crisis - Newspaper Article

The man who promised us, 'Education, education, education,' as the

main priority of his government has failed again. Blair along with

forever changing line up of education secretaries has again been

branded a hazard to our children.

The new crisis in hand for our Labour government evolves our

youngsters within Primary education. The recent report has revealed

that the number of children who can read and write properly has fallen

in the last three years, as almost 250,000 seven year olds are not

hitting required standards, for the second year running. In English

only 75% have reached the required standards, leaving government hopes

of 85% English pass rate for 11 year olds by 2002 in tatters.

The report has shown three tenths of Primary school children are

behind in reading from as young as seven. Four tenths our poor at

writing, leading to one quarter of eleven year olds being classed as

semi-literate! Chief school inspector Mr David bell has described the

situation as disastrous and has said, 'I don't think we could possibly

be happy with what primary schools are achieving.'

These chilling figures reported by Ofsted are causing concern amongst

parents throughout the country. Although Mr Bell is claiming the route

of this problem is due to the teachers and Heads of the schools. As it

has been suggested that one in ten of our head teachers are 'weak',

that's a figure just over 2,000 that are simply not up to the job. If

the leaders of the schools are 'weak' what hope does it hold for our

teachers? Although Heads are saying they are being used a scapegoats

Mr Bell insists that they a...

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staffing shortage in Primary and Senior schools. At the start of the

academic year many school remained closed due to staffing shortages.

And it appears this situation to is getting worse. As a survey for the

National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teacher suggested

that nearly 63% of teachers have considered leaving their jobs within

the past 5 years. And in another survey for the National Opinion Poll

of 1,007 NASUWT members discovered that 30% felt that no political

party had the right education policies.

In conclusion it seams that all areas of or education system our in

danger and have been effected, all that is left to say is good luck

Charles Clarke, who now has the mammoth task of getting things on

track. A job that both David Blunkett and Estelle Morris have failed

to achieve.

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