(22 Mar 2016, 9:08 pm)NK53 TKT wrote Now, I disagree with some of Trump's policies (islamaphbic comments and sexist comments) however some do make sense such as a wall between Mexico and America to stop illegal immigration and drugs

(22 Mar 2016, 9:08 pm)NK53 TKT wrote Now, I disagree with some of Trump's policies (islamaphbic comments and sexist comments) however some do make sense such as a wall between Mexico and America to stop illegal immigration and drugs

(22 Mar 2016, 9:19 pm)Adrian wrote To stop illegal immigration in America? Lets not forget that the Europeans entered America as immigrants way back, and pushed the natives out. 

Building walls between borders solves nothing. You only have to look as far as the Berlin wall for that.

(22 Mar 2016, 9:08 pm)NK53 TKT wrote Now, I disagree with some of Trump's policies (islamaphbic comments and sexist comments) however some do make sense such as a wall between Mexico and America to stop illegal immigration and drugs

(22 Mar 2016, 9:32 pm)NK53 TKT wrote Look no further:
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/positions/immigration-reform

(22 Mar 2016, 10:50 pm)BusLoverMum wrote Who will he get to build that wall?

(24 Mar 2016, 5:23 pm)Adrian wrote

(24 Mar 2016, 6:02 pm)Andreos1 wrote You evil, baby-eating communist.
What would all the moderates and communists think of posts like this?

(24 Mar 2016, 6:52 pm)MurdnunoC wrote Don't you just hate all those politically-motivated climate change myths propagated by those who have spent years undertaking research and collating evidence to support their claims?

(24 Mar 2016, 10:25 pm)Adrian wrote Or all the safety legislation that was written on the back of industrial disasters, and the investigations into those?

(24 Mar 2016, 10:27 pm)R852 PRG wrote The Soviet Union and Chernobyl springs to mind.

• All schools in England to move to academy status
  
• New funding system designed to benefit disadvantaged areas
  
• Heads who take over struggling schools given a two-and-a-half-year reprieve from Ofsted inspections, to enable them to turn things around
  
• An end to the legal obligation for academies to have parents as governors in all schools
  
• A shake-up of governance, with a greater obligation to consult with parents
  
• Accreditation system for teacher training to be approved by head teachers - scrapping the current "qualified teacher status".
  

(29 Mar 2016, 12:09 pm)Michael wrote Just seen an advert for a program on channel 4 about Trump, on tomorrow.

I'm sure i heard him say "If i stood and shot someone i wouldn't lose voters"

Typical red neck yank!

(29 Mar 2016, 12:26 pm)MrFozz wrote The man is a fucking idiot, a very dangerous one at that and I worry for America if the daft bastards voted him in

(29 Mar 2016, 12:36 pm)Michael wrote Complete tool Fozz, i dread to think what he'll do to America if he gets in.

Yet, he seems to get more supporters, to me that shows he'll be in the election vote...

(06 Apr 2016, 12:58 pm)Michael wrote GrownUpPolitics - Green Party 2016 Party Election Broadcast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2dNEQiHUUo

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Not a fan of the Green party but this advert good haha

(06 Apr 2016, 6:23 pm)Andreos1 wrote It's just appeared on my fb.

I quite like it.

(08 Apr 2016, 1:50 pm)James101 wrote http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-35968423

YES

Our education system is set up to push young people into further and higher education and damn them if they'd like to do anything else. 

The people in charge of education live in an isolated bubble world where they themselves have obediently travelled through the education system right through university and have then landed a job in education to start the whole cycle again. What's missing is any real experience. It's then compounded by teachers getting so wrapped up in meeting targets and getting pupils through tests with such narrowly defined curriculum that the end result is not a well rounded individual coming out of school but a trained dolphin who can jump through a hoop and tell you some very specific facts about a book they studied for two years or some alien maths formula which has no application in the real world. 

[snip]

Teaching is a wonderful vocation and very few of us are brave enough to take it on. Most teachers are wonderful people and inspire children every day. It's the people in charge of the education system who are guiding teachers and their pupils in the wrong way.

(08 Apr 2016, 8:03 pm)BusLoverMum wrote Sadly they get no say in this. Any deviation from the expectation and they are performance managed back into compliance. Or out of the profession.

It does appear that many schools have been turned into sausage factories which do not serve the needs of many young people at all well. Compulsory academisation is, unfortunately, going to be the git big hammer whacking the final nail into that coffin.

While it comes with its own headaches, it is a slight relief for them that my boys are completely side-stepping mainstream secondary school.

(10 Apr 2016, 3:13 pm)Michael wrote UK student loans: 'we will trace and prosecute borrowers who don't pay'

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/feb/12/student-loans-we-will-trace-prosecute-borrowers-dont-pay


Also:

Stop plans to make it a criminal offence to not pay back your student loan

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/121888


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That's me screwed... i owe like 25k

(10 Apr 2016, 3:28 pm)MurdnunoC wrote As far as I can see, there's no mention of the threshold (currently at £21,000 for most recent loanees and somewhere in the region £17,000 for those who took out their loans prior to 2011/12) of either being removed or amended so I wouldn't worry that much.

(10 Apr 2016, 3:35 pm)Michael wrote When reading it, i have to admit i was confused, i wasn't sure if it was for past/current students or the new Uni year.