tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5868129342202984491.post6730127961023765574..comments2023-05-23T11:07:08.243+01:00Comments on Beeb Bias Craig: EDUCATION, EDUCATOIN, ECUDATIONCraighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5868129342202984491.post-62711655740100992782009-08-29T10:56:28.076+01:002009-08-29T10:56:28.076+01:00I did record about half an hour of comment recogni...I did record about half an hour of comment recognising that Labour had over 11 years doubled the funding for state school pupils and had spent some of this wisely on making teaching more attractive and refurbishing the fabric of schools. But I also said there were three basic flaws: believing that diversity of secondary schools could be an end in itself; confusing rising externally driven test scores with improving education; and spinning to the point that even the good things were not quite believed. As you say, only the second of these got a very brief airing. Alan Smithers, Centre for Education and Employment Research, University of BuckinghamAlan Smithershttp://www.buckingham.ac.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5868129342202984491.post-26876187872469431952009-08-29T10:21:40.364+01:002009-08-29T10:21:40.364+01:00Why can you hardly believe it? The BBC is in many ...Why can you hardly believe it? The BBC is in many ways the media wing of the Labour party. BBC and Labour march together in the same way that rats and the plague used to accompany each other; I'll leave it to you to decide which organisation is of the genus rattus and which is a bacterial disease.Not a sheephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14123293202225008273noreply@blogger.com