Sentences with phrase «education secretary said»

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Shadow Education Secretary said: «Labour supports teachers, parents and pupils who are demanding exams are marked fairly.

Lucy Powell, Labour's shadow education secretary said the report was more evidence of an «undoubted» teacher shortage.

Asked last week during a visit to a complex of magnet schools in Hartford whether the state's moratorium should be repealed, the U.S. education secretary said that's for local and state officials to figure out.

Obama's education secretary said the GI Bill was «essentially a government educational voucher with no strings attached.»

«As the education secretary said in her speech at the Sutton Trust last month, we know that tackling social mobility is a generational challenge,» she said.

The education secretary said the schools on her tour operated as they chose, «without anyone in Washington... telling them «no.

The education secretary said she was «very happy» to arrange a meeting to discuss the «excellent bill» and how it can help young teachers.

Exam board WJEC called the fall in top grades «disappointing» while the education secretary said some subjects could learn from improvements in maths and history.

The education secretary said academies and free schools have helped by «promoting new ideas and approaches, and helping to drive up standards in other local schools as a result».

Asked whether pupils should be able to wear face veils in school, the education secretary said «we're not going to tell people what they can and can't wear» but schools had the right to impose a uniform policy.

The education secretary said that schools were better funded - but he acknowledged that they now faced increased financial pressures and also more social pressures, such as children's mental health problems.

The education secretary said: «The truth about free schools is that they help children in areas where they've been let down in the past.»

This would allow their progress to be tracked and would «free up» teachers, the education secretary said.

Headteachers know «better than the Department for Education» how to improve their schools, and should be trusted to «get on with the job», the education secretary said today.

Ministers have defended their plans for free school meals for infant children in England after a former adviser to the education secretary said the idea was «dumb» and a «bad gimmick».

Yesterday on the World at One the education secretary said that delivering the free breakfast policy could cost # 174 million — almost three times what her party had originally pledged.

The education secretary said all grammar schools should change their admissions code to give priority to disadvantaged children.

And the education secretary said that she had never planned to be a politician - and could remember her father shouting at out - of - touch politicians on the television.

«Saying you're going to be a bloody difficult woman right at the start of negotiations tends to make sure that you do get a bad deal,» the shadow education secretary said.

Addressing headteachers at the annual conference of school leaders» union NAHT in Liverpool, the shadow education secretary said the government «wouldn't survive their own Ofsted inspection», as she attacked restrictions on teacher pay and problems stemming from the school accountability system.

Speaking at the Institute of School Business Leadership (ISBL) conference in Cardiff's City Hall, the Education Secretary said:

Angela Rayner MP, the shadow education secretary said: «This report from the government's own Social Mobility Commission shows that their policies will not improve social mobility in Britain.

Speaking at the Institute of School Business Leadership (ISBL) conference in Cardiff's City Hall, the education secretary said: «Teachers and headteachers need to be able to concentrate on the roles that they are best equipped to perform, roles that they trained for, roles that made them want to become teachers in the first place.

Tristram Hunt, the shadow education secretary said: «The growing pressures on primary school class sizes should compel the government to rethink how it is allocating funding for schools.

The former shadow education secretary said he had «no desire to rock the boat» and insisted anyone who interpreted his decision to quit that way is «just plain wrong».

The Education Secretary said simply, «both.»

The Education Secretary said: «This is a measure that is being discussed.

The education secretary said they had to make sure the taxpayer «is not paying twice».

The Education Secretary said: «Ed Miliband made a cynical calculation to put his political interests ahead of national security and humanitarian intervention.

The Education Secretary said he loves music like Wagner which «marks you out as a right - wing lunatic, if not sexually confused or repressed from the beginning».

The new education secretary said the government would «push ahead with a refreshed and revitalised radicalism in our schools policy», insisting that this constant drive was what had kept the political left together.

Turning towards Scotland, the former shadow education secretary said that Corbyn's approach would be put to the test next year:

The education secretary said the government would consult on the reforms this autumn, with a view to introducing the new examination system for 15 - and 16 - year - olds by the end of the parliament.

The Education Secretary said the 2011 GCSE results had shown the EBac was «reversing the long - term drift away from» history, geography and languages which were «bouncing back to the levels of a decade ago.»

In a tense exchange with Lord Leveson, the education secretary said the inquiry into media standards could produce proposals which would be «worse than the disease».

Lord Justice Leveson is said to have complained to Downing Street in February after the education secretary said the inquiry into media standards was having a «chilling effect» on freedom of speech.

The coalition was «fundamentally a Conservative government» and Tories should not be let «off the hook», the shadow education secretary said.

Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme, the Education Secretary said he had been told David Cameron put no pressure on the Culture Secretary to stand down.

The shadow education secretary said private educators should be sharing their expertise to help state school pupils get into top universities, and should set up joint school programmes such as combined extra-curricular activities, if they wanted to keep receiving government subsidies in future.

Giving a speech at the Durand academy in south London, the education secretary said an «educational underclass» had developed which thousands of children were joining every year.

The shadow education secretary said that any decision on whether Lord Archer joined his local Conservative association was up to the local board, saying it would be «crazy» for the party leader to intervene in the proper process of membership.

«Our challenge now is to learn from the best evidence of what works and when, and to embed that within the literacy strategy for the future,» the education secretary said.

*** One suspects another clash of the PM's inner circle is looming after the education secretary said «teachers should definitely be paid more than they are at the moment».

The education secretary said that he would not undermine Ofqual's authority in regulating qualifications and examinations in English schools, during the first questions on education of the Parliamentary session.

The education secretary said the popular series had sought to denigrate British patriotism and had been used by «left wing academics» to portray the first world war as a «shambles» led by an out of touch elite.

The Education Secretary says she won't be directly intervening in the case of a Christian school that says it has been threatened with an Ofsted downgrade.

«Teachers need to be honest about faults in the exam system if they are to gain more respect and esteem for the profession, the shadow Education Secretary says today.

On the other hand, Nicky Morgan, education secretary says that the new policy to make the EBacc obligatory for all students is simply a matter of «social justice».

The state's education secretary says the move will help ensure students» preparedness for the «21st century marketplace.»