According to the UK Labour Party website the Labour Party will try to achieve the following if they retain power at the 2010 general election:
Labour’s Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, Ed Balls, has welcomed the new or refurbished schools opening this month.
September (2009) will see 400 new or refurbished schools opening their doors for a new term – including the new City Academy in Hackney which the Prime Minister opened this morning.
These schools make up part of the almost 4000 schools built, rebuilt or refurbished by Labour since 1997 – the biggest sustained period of school building for decades.
Ed Balls also announced changes to the Academies system – dropping the £2m sponsorship requirement to allow more schools to benefit from a wider range of sponsors.
Labour’s Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, Ed Balls, said:
“We’ve swept away the historic legacy of under-funded and under-resourced schools thanks to our sustained, record capital investment programme over the last decade.
“A world-class education system needs world-class facilities – that’s exactly what we are delivering. This is the largest sustained capital investment in schools for decades – giving parents, teachers and pupils outstanding classroom, music and sports facilities; transforming their aspirations; and driving up standards.
”Schools in England have had the biggest sustained investment in facilities for decades – with an eightfold real terms rise between 1997 and 2011 alone. Around 4,000 schools and tens of thousands of classrooms have been newly built, rebuilt or largely refurbished thanks to our £53 billion of capital investment over the last 12 years.
“There are now 121 BSF schools open, with the first Primary Capital Programme schools open this term on top of a decade of local authority-run building projects and the expanding Academy programme – and we are committed to rebuilding or refurbishing the entire secondary school estate and half of all primary schools.”
I would be interested to hear both positive and negative views on UK Labour Party’s Building Schools policies in the comments below?
Communists/Marxists all and every one of them. Nation haters by birth and destroyers of everything a nation’s people look up to with pride and heritage.
If many of the illegals & unwanted immigrants returned home with their huge families, we would not need to build more schools, some of the money could be used to improve the current ones & ensure OUR children get a GOOD UNPOLITICISED education, without resorting to politically correct marxist curricula such as the stopping of teaching BRITISH history in favour of rubbish such as “citizenship” whatever that means!
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Citizenship and history are two different subjects why can’t no one actually see this. I am a GCSE History student and at school I learn about prison reform, WW1 and WW2, Jack The Ripper, Suffragettes, TollPuddle Martyrs ECT. If that isn’t British history then tell me what is? becuase I am really interested to hear your views.
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education needs to focus more on raising standards in learning, dramatically. too many new subjects are brought in for pupils to take on, especially during their gsce’s. it is impossible for them to cope and achieve a good sound knowledge base for their future. exams etc have been repeatedly watered down over the years that children really do not have the essential skills to go to work with. there is far too much emphasis on entertaining these children in class. since when should we compete with a tv program to ensure they learn. since when should the children get the say on what should be taught. overall, it may appear that we are getting better results but this is an illusion. we are teaching children to be dumbed down and these are the children who will be teaching and working in our future and raising others. on top of that, there is far too much pandering to their behaviour. people in and out of schools have little rights towards children misbehaving. if we do try to act there are severe consequences for us. sometimes we need more control. as children we would never dare to treat our elders the way many younger people do today. it is outrageous. toi be honest there is far too much wrong with how our society works and anarchy is being to rule a lot more than we realise.
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