Michael Gove axed as Education Secretary

The viewpoint is there, but the education is certainly not. Why do you think there are many ads on TV to stop people doing things (i.e smoking) - because they work. Education works.
And there is extremely hard solid scientific evidence porn, video game addiction, smoking, excessive eating all cause Hypofrontality and Desensitization. And that exersize and meditation reverse these by increasing dopamine and dopamine receptors. You are incredibly ignorant. A neuroscience perspective on academic achievement I thought was original and many people ignore the Hypofrontality- not helped by the fact their is no education on it. You're jut as obnoxious and ignorant as somebody who claims cancer and depression does not exist.

So they went and spent spent spent and borrowed borrowed borrowed and ruined the economy. If funding the state sector meant ruining the economy, then I would rather them not do that.

You do not like the results of the Labour education system so now you are making out that the stories are distorted. I used to live in Labour run Wales and the education there was notably worse to where I am now, It took me a long time to improve. What some people fail to realise is spending so much money on education does not mean academic performance will improve. The best way to improve academic performance is having a strong work ethic which is best gained from one's parents.

Certainly, his efficiency is something to be commended.

However, I would like to use one example. Last year, Michael Gove revised the national Geography curriculum, failing to release it until one month before the term started. If he had adequate knowledge on the kind of preparation needed for teachers, this decision might not have been so reckless. It is customary for a two-year notice to be given so that these preparations can be made and can be accommodated for by schools. It causes severe management issues (I can speak personally from experience) and is extremely inconvenient.

Implementing reforms in the middle of the year is absurd as far as anybody experienced in education is concerned.

Why are you ignoring that there is education on these issues? My year group went on a one month government funded programme trying to educate us about these issues.

Do you not even consider the possibility that people know that smoking is harmful to their bodies even before they start (as some of my friends did) yet they do it anyway?

There are many adverts on TV to encourage people to stop smoking because a company wants those individuals to use and pay for their services.

I did not claim cancer and depression did not exist. You obviously could not critically analyse what I had said so you resorted to putting words in my mouth and insulting me.

It's too easy to blame it on one party and I'm not really blaming it on current parties at all (although I do think the decline started under Thatcher) - the situation in Wales is complicated, but like other poorer areas of Britain, the position for state school students has made a turn for the worse. Most indicators definitely were improving though under the last Labour governments, purely because they increased spending.

It's too easy to blame it on one party and I'm not really blaming it on current parties at all (although I do think the decline started under Thatcher) - the situation in Wales is complicated, but like other poorer areas of Britain, the position for state school students has made a turn for the worse. Most indicators definitely were improving though under the last Labour governments, purely because they increased spending.

Well I have had 0 education whatsoever. What people should be taught is the dangers in normal PSE/ PSHE lessons. That's not hard to do. And it's therefore they can do things knowledgeable of the outcomes. It will deter many people. You're ignorant.

Not at all. It was a very brief factual statement. I do understand a lot. I'm merely making it understandable. There is in fact, so much more to addiction and rewiring, you don't even know it.

The strike was about pay and conditions, not about anything else and was the culmination of a 2 year long dispute extending beyond just teachers. Attempting to recast the strike to be about the quality of education in schools is disingenuous.

Also, you are wrong about there being no strikes for teachers during the previous Labour government. There was a strike under Gordon Brown's premiership, the first in 21 years (yes do the maths, that takes us well into the conservative period of the 90's).

Of course it is a lot easier to construct a story off the top of your head to fit your ideological viewpoint rather than actually look at the facts.

Well I have had 0 education whatsoever. What people should be taught is the dangers in normal PSE/ PSHE lessons. That's not hard to do. And it's therefore they can do things knowledgeable of the outcomes. It will deter many people. You're ignorant.

Speaking as someone who did January exams for my AS's last year, but didn't have them for my A2's this year, I think removing them was the right thing to do. It meant we spent less time doing and slugging for exams, and more time actually learning.


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You're the exception rather than the rule then, and it's your school that's to blame rather than the government. Almost everyone I know had extensive education on these things in PSE, with the exception of porn.


Thank you for making the information more digestible for me - how was I supposed to know that someone with the username Mathmeister would also be an expert in neuroscience



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The Labour education system had failed us. So many people in my college could not even tell the time.

Don't displace your method of arguing onto me to fit your ideological viewpoint.

You would think they would have had more than one strike under Brown 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 for spending and borrowing so much money which is why there is a freeze on public sector wages today.

It's too easy to blame it on one party and I'm not really blaming it on current parties at all (although I do think the decline started under Thatcher) - the situation in Wales is complicated, but like other poorer areas of Britain, the position for state school students has made a turn for the worse. Most indicators definitely were improving though under the last Labour governments, purely because they increased spending.

So the Labour-PC Welsh government is responsible for education in Wales but the decline in performance of Welsh schools is the responsibility of the Con-LD UK government?

Are Cameron and Clegg also responsible for the Moscow Metro crash?

I was (attempting) a serious point, that most of the trends are long term and that there is unlikely to be that much difference between deprived areas of S. Wales (as that's really what we're talking about) and deprived areas in other parts of the UK. I was suggesting that the current or recent politicians staffing the senior jobs are unlikely to be having much effect, unless they make drastic changes. I am also pointing out that education spending declined as a percentage of national income severely from 1979 as a result of Tory policies, which is a valid assertion. More recently it is also true that Labour attempted to reverse that trend.

Which is?



Moving the goal posts because I pointed out you were wrong? How predictable.

However a divergence seems to have developed in recent years between English and Welsh educational attainment that seems not to relate to socio-economic factors but to government policy.