Posted on July 10, 2008 by ToryWriter
Is there anyone left who hasn’t criticised the Minister for Education?
In yesterday’s Belfast Telegraph the Children’s Commissioner, Patricia Lewsley, noted her concern that the process undertaken by Ms Ruane has done nothing to take on board the views of young people with regard to the way ahead.
The Minister has now seemingly managed the impossible. All shades of [...]
Filed under: Academic Selection, Belfast Telegraph, Children, Conservatives Northern Ireland, Education, Grammar Schools, Sinn Fein | 3 Comments »
Posted on December 6, 2007 by Editor
By Bob Wilson - Well what would you do in her situation? You’ve been given the job of Minister for Education (something you know little about) and you are prevented from doing the one thing you and your supporters want you to do – i.e. end academic selection?
Caitriona Ruane did the only thing she could. [...]
Filed under: Education, Northern Ireland, Sinn Fein | Tagged: Academic Selection, Catriona Ruane, Education, Grammar Schools, Sinn Fein | No Comments »
Posted on March 11, 2007 by Editor
By Jeff Peel - Willie O’Dea (Irish Minister of Defence) writing in the Sunday Independent today highlight’s Sinn Fein’s desire to see the top rate of income tax in the Republic increase to 50% and corporation tax hiked to 17.5%. Meanwhile the DUP is arguing that our rate of corporation tax needs to be reduced [...]
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Posted on March 8, 2007 by Editor
BBC Newsnight reported last night that the two so-called “main Parties” (everywhere outside of Northern Ireland they are viewed as weird sectarian anachronisms) are pretty much at one when it comes to making demands on the British exchequer. Sinn Fein claims that the “Brits” owe us big time. They are demanding that jobs are “created” [...]
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