Category Archives: Education

Is Nick Gibb ignoring real challenges for Schools and parents?

Posted on March 4, 2021 by ianchisnall

When a Member of Parliament asks a question, with one or two exceptions, they are raising genuine issues which require the Government to respond in a meaningful way. After all these questions and answers are all made public and therefore … Continue reading →

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Well done for your cross party action in the House of Commons

Posted on February 27, 2021 by ianchisnall

Although the provision of a good quality piece of legislation is the most important element from Parliament, when backbench MPs from more than one party work together we should applaud them. That is particularly true if their cooperation and proposed … Continue reading →

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The Conservative Party does not understand Independence

Posted on February 23, 2021 by ianchisnall

Two weeks ago on the 9th February there was an announcement that the Government had appointed James Wharton who is a Conservative Peer as the new Chair of The Office for Students which is supposed to be an Independent organisation … Continue reading →

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Let us celebrate Apprenticeship Week – and improve matters

Posted on February 11, 2021 by ianchisnall

On Tuesday in Parliament Sajid Javid asked a question which is shown below. The response came as the image above shows from Gillian Keegan who is the Minister responsible for Apprenticeships from within the Department of Education. However along with … Continue reading →

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A clear question on behalf of Students – less clear answer!

Posted on February 6, 2021 by ianchisnall

Earlier this week on Wednesday there was a debate that took place in Parliament on the theme of Support for University Students: Covid-19 which was started by Paul Blomfield who is the Labour MP for Sheffield Central with his Urgent … Continue reading →

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Government clearly needs to increase its Computer provision

Posted on January 14, 2021 by ianchisnall

Last Wednesday following the debate with the Prime Minister on the theme of lockdown, there was a debate with Gavin Williamson on the subject of Covid-19: Educational Settings. My blog yesterday focused on one of the the themes in that … Continue reading →

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Why is Gavin Williamson so unwilling to vaccinate teachers?

Posted on January 13, 2021 by ianchisnall

Last Wednesday in Parliament following the debate on COVID and the call to lockdown the nation this was the debate on the theme of Covid-19: Educational Settings which began with a statement from Gavin Williamson. He touched on a number … Continue reading →

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Vaccine priorities and US Capitol chaos both need responses

Posted on January 11, 2021 by ianchisnall

At the start of this week many of us are still recovering from a number of events that took place last week. For those of us in the UK, the lockdown following a huge increase in COVID-19 cases over December … Continue reading →

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A few of the comments made yesterday in Parliament

Posted on January 7, 2021 by ianchisnall

It is very difficult to ignore these calls from senior leaders in the opposition parts of Parliament. The question is how will the Government stop arguing for different approaches and start collaborating with these people so that our nation gets … Continue reading →

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A Coalition type of leadership is now vital for our nation

Posted on January 5, 2021 by ianchisnall

The latest COVID-19 announcement by Boris Johnson which he made at 8pm last night seemed to be in a very clear change from his approach at 9am on the day before. Despite this change the positive aspects of his announcement … Continue reading →

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