Sentences with phrase «liberal democrat education»

Liberal Democrat education spokeswoman Margaret Smith said: «The SNP promised when they took power they would maintain the record number of teachers they inherited, but the SNP have utterly failed to keep this promise.

Liberal Democrat education spokesman John Pugh said the government had «completely the wrong priorities».

Welsh Liberal Democrat education spokesman Aled Roberts said: «Too often we are hearing of how parents are confused why their children's school has been rebranded despite the fact its results have stayed the same.

Scottish Liberal Democrat education spokesman Liam McArthur said the SNP's track record on teacher training «was poor».

Liberal Democrat education spokeswoman, Layla Moran, said: «It is incredulous that the government have claimed they will deliver fair funding for every school in today's Queen's Speech.

Liberal Democrat education spokesman Phil Willis said he was saddened to hear «more talk of compartmentalizing our school children».

Liberal Democrat Education Spokesperson David Laws said it was vital a wide range of modern languages were available in schools, and that Liberal Democrats support those parents who are making their case to the exam boards.

In the Commons, Liberal Democrat education spokesman David Laws called the situation a «shambles».

Liberal Democrat education spokesman John Pugh said the Tories had their «priorities wrong» on education.

Liberal Democrat education spokesman Tavish Scott said teachers would be «dangerously overstretched» unless action was taken to address the shortages.

Huw Lewis's successor, the Liberal Democrat Education Secretary Kirsty Williams has said it will take time for Welsh educational reforms to be reflected in the Pisa results.

Liberal Democrat education spokesperson John Pugh will propose new rules for inspections requiring inspectors to agree both the outcome and recommendations from their visits with schools or offer them a right to respond in the text of the reports themselves.

It is easy to see the influence of the Liberal Democrat Education Secretary Kirsty Williams in Tuesday's draft budget with a doubling of the pupil deprivation grant for the youngest and poorest learners.

Liberal Democrat education spokeswoman Margaret Smith said: «The SNP government failed to deliver their «flagship» manifesto commitment to reduce class sizes to 18 for all primary one to threes.

The Liberal Democrat education spokeswoman Layla Moran said: «This is a desperate attempt to pull the wool over people's eyes.

Liberal Democrat education spokesman John Pugh urged the government to protect the school budget in real terms, adding that he was concerned that the announcement did not rule more out cuts to school budgets «which are already overstretched».

Liberal Democrat Education Minister David Laws accused the Conservatives of «vetoing» improvements and said it was «very frustrating and disappointing».

Liberal Democrat education spokesman John Pugh said these proposals made schools scramble for the same pot of money.

Liberal Democrat education spokesman, John Pugh, called on Ms Greening to «put a stop to damaging proposals to scrap Qualified Teacher Status and parent governors, as well as plans to vastly increase numbers of academies».

Liberal Democrat education spokesman Tavish Scott said «Thousands of pupils faced the prospect of going back to school without a dedicated class teacher in place.

Similar sentiments have been echoed by Liberal Democrat education spokesman Liam McArthur, who said: «I would urge the government to heed the calls of teaching unions, teachers and parents to drop plans for national standardised testing in primary schools.»

Liberal Democrat education spokesman John Pugh said:» It is bad enough that dedicated teachers are being driven away from the profession they love, but this is also laying the foundations for a disastrous teaching shortage in years to come if we can not train new teachers fast enough to replace the ones which leave.

Liberal Democrat Education Minister David Laws has outlined the «the big priorities» of any future Lib Dem government, ahead of the election manifesto launch.

The Campaign launched in June 2013, and is also already being supported by the Accord Coalition, the British Humanist Association, Professor Ted Cantle and the iCoCo Foundation, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, British Muslims for Secular Democracy, the Campaign for State Education, the Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education, the Christian think tank Ekklesia, the Hindu Academy, the Green Party, the Liberal Democrat Education Association, Liberal Youth, the Local Schools Network, Richmond Inclusive Schools Campaign, the Runnymede Trust, the Socialist Educational Association, the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches and a number of local campaign groups.

Welsh Liberal Democrat Education Secretary Kirsty Williams is investing an extra # 4.2 m to support the teaching and learning of Welsh and subjects through the medium of Welsh.

341 schools across Wales are set to get superfast broadband thanks to Welsh Liberal Democrat Education Secretary Kirsty Williams.

Welsh Liberal Democrat Education Secretary Kirsty Williams has announced new rules setting out a presumption against the closure of rural schools.

Welsh Liberal Democrat Education Secretary Kirsty Williams has written to all schools in Wales to raise awareness of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).

Storey is currently the Liberal Democrat education spokesman in the House of Lords and co-chair of the party parliamentary education, families and young people committee.

Last year the Welsh Liberal Democrat Education Secretary Kirsty Williams ordered a review into the body that supports the development of Welsh - medium provision within higher education, enabling more students to study a variety of subjects through the medium of Welsh.

The coalition government's approach was «incompatible with Liberal Democrat education policy,» said Mr Downes.

Aled Roberts, Welsh Liberal Democrat Education spokesperson, has called on the Welsh Labour government to use the money which will come to Wales as a result of today's school meals announcement in England to be used to fund a similar scheme.

Commenting on today's Welsh Conservative debate in the Assembly, Aled Roberts, Welsh Liberal Democrat Education Spokesperson said:

Unveiling the Liberal Democrat education policy for the party's general election campaign with a keynote speech in London, Mr Clegg said that the link between deprivation and low achievement remained, despite Labour's investment programme.

John Howson President of the Liberal Democrat Education Association and has advised various Liberal Democrat education spokespersons over the past 13 years.

The abolition of fees remains central to Liberal Democrat education policy and the Social Liberal Forum believes that unless HE is paid for through general taxation, a fairly instituted graduate contribution, with repayments that reflect graduates» ability to pay, is the best policy to help the UK's HE sector remain world - class without placing a burden of debt on young graduates.»

Supporters of the campaign include the Accord Coalition, the British Humanist Association, Professor Ted Cantle and the iCoCo Foundation, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, British Muslims for Secular Democracy, the Campaign for State Education, the Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education, the Christian think tank Ekklesia, the Hindu Academy, the Green Party, the Liberal Democrat Education Association, Liberal Youth, the Local Schools Network, Richmond Inclusive Schools Campaign, the Runnymede Trust, the Socialist Educational Association, and the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches.

Liberal Democrat education spokeswoman Sarah Teather also warned ministers must also ensure children are properly taught about the dangers of knives and other weapons.

However, Liberal Democrat education spokeswoman Sarah Teather said «More of the same with some new buzzwords thrown in is not going to bring about the change we need.

It's a sop to Liberal Democrat backbenchers who at long last may be showing signs of rebelling as one totemic Liberal Democrat education policy after another is sacrificed to Tory ideology.»

A new network which aims to improve the teaching and learning of the Foundation Phase across all schools and education settings in Wales was launched today by Welsh Liberal Democrat Education Secretary Kirsty Williams.

Wales» brightest and most talented pupils are set to benefit from # 3 million of support over two years as part of plans announced today by Welsh Liberal Democrat Education Secretary, Kirsty Williams.

Schools are to receive # 14 million for small scale repairs and maintenance under plans announced by Welsh Liberal Democrat Education Secretary Kirsty Williams.

[37] The campaign has support from both religious and non-religious organizations at both the national and local level including the Accord Coalition, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, the British Humanist Association, British Muslims for Secular Democracy, ICoCo Foundation, the Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education, Ekklesia, the Hindu Academy, the Liberal Democrat Education Association, Richmond Inclusive Schools Campaign, the Runnymede Trust, the Socialist Educational Association, the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches.

It supported Humanist and Secularist Liberal Democrats (HSLD) in their efforts to draft the motion, and the BHA's Director of Public Affairs and Policy spoke in favour of the motion at a fringe event organised by HSLD and the Liberal Democrat Education Association on Friday.

Supporters of the campaign include the British Humanist Association, Professor Ted Cantle and the iCoCo Foundation, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, British Muslims for Secular Democracy, the Campaign for State Education, the Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education, the Christian think tank Ekklesia, the Hindu Academy, the Green Party, the Liberal Democrat Education Association, Liberal Youth, the Local Schools Network, Richmond Inclusive Schools Campaign, the Runnymede Trust, the Socialist Educational Association, and the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches.

Tavish Scott, the Liberal Democrats education spokesperson, commented: «Pupils deserve better than to be treated as guinea pigs.»

Welsh Liberal Democrats education spokesman Aled Roberts said: «The mess that unfolded this summer highlighted that it shouldn't be left to the education minister to be the sole decider on the way exams are awarded.

Liberal Democrats education spokesman Aled Roberts also welcomed the review but called for «a period of stability» once it was completed.

Not exact matches

«The net result of the Liberals» carbon trust shell game is that year after year money gets drained from classrooms and emergency rooms without any resulting efficiency gains while big polluters like Encana get a free ride funded by our healthcare and education systems,» said New Democrat environment critic Rob Fleming.