Tag Archives: education

English as she is spoke

Baroness Deech 11/01/2010 – 4:59 pm

Lord Quirk asked a question today about taking measures to improve performance in written and spoken English throughout the education system.  So many peers rose to their feet wishing to participate that very few could be heard.  Had I been one of them, I would have asked the Minister to tell schools and universities to deduct marks for poor spelling and grammar when marking assignments.  Many […]

School Lottery is a Loser.

Lord Taylor of Warwick 13/03/2009 – 3:45 pm

If Ed Balls was a student, I would fail him. His career as Schools Secretary has been stained with the SATS marking fiasco and questionable education standards.    Recently, after a huge amount of stress to pupils, parents and teachers, SATS were abandoned overnight because the Government were unable to devise a suitable marking system.    Accusations of dumbing down to achieve better grades, […]

Preparing for a Bill

Baroness Murphy 19/03/2008 – 1:03 pm

Like other blogging peers I've been amazed and delighted by the response of you blog-watchers. It's certainly an incentive to carry on. A very busy couple of days for me. Yesterday was my Council meeting at St George's University of London. I've been Chair of Council, the governing body of this college of the University of London, for nearly two years, at a time of great change. We are a small me […]

Welcome, everyone

Baroness Murphy 16/03/2008 – 1:47 pm

I'm excited this blog site is finally going live tomorrow and hope very much 'you lot out there' will want to talk to us and tell us what's on your mind. The peers taking part have been more or less talking to each other while getting the hang of it. Some of us, unlike former MPs like Lord Soley who are old hands, have never blogged before so we don't know yet what really interests the wider blogg […]