The Government’s Education Select Committee is toying with a new idea to improve school education. Performance-related pay is to be considered, with a proposal that poorer teachers be paid less. In doing so they are falling into the socialist trap of imposing market-style discipline on a state-controlled activity, a process that often manages to [...]
Continue Reading →Last week I looked at how, by virtue of its close proximity to government, the BBC is in danger of being subject to bias. The week before I discussed the BBC’s failure to cover Libya properly and its wasteful tendencies.
But whatever the merits or demerits of the BBC’s actual output, [...]
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The economic growth of China in the past decade has been phenomenal; it has completely weathered the downturn and is comprehensively on its way to usurping the USA as the world’s [...]
Continue Reading →Politics.co.uk reports major figures in the police have questions over the government appointment of an American 'supercop'. The story continues:
David Cameron's enthusiasm for a zero tolerance approach to crime in the wake of last week's rioting is meeting serious opposition from senior police figures.
The prime minister is [...]
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