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Education and Skills Bill (17 Jul 2008)

Baroness Perry of Southwark: I am extremely glad the Minister found his notes on the Rose project because I was much reassured by what he said. I had not been reassured by his earlier answer, from his brief, to Amendment No. 128. I thought at that point that he or his officials had rather missed the purpose of my amendment—no doubt that is my fault. It was specifically not to exclude from a requirement this category of...

Education and Skills Bill ( 3 Jul 2008)

Baroness Perry of Southwark: The noble Baroness, Lady Sharp, asked the Minister how wide is the definition of a service provider. I am not sure that he answered that part of her question; it is a question that I would especially like to hear the answer to.

Education and Skills Bill ( 3 Jul 2008)

Baroness Perry of Southwark: I understand that, and I have read the clause very carefully. However, I have also read Clause 57. I find the Connexions service just as worrying. A local contractor or local school company can provide that sort of information. However, Clause 57 clearly states: "Relevant information about a pupil or student ... must be provided by the responsible person to a person involved in the provision...

Education and Skills Bill ( 3 Jul 2008)

Baroness Perry of Southwark: Forgive me if I am being exceptionally thick, but how can they provide the information unless they access the database, which will include far more than they themselves know? Surely the database from which they will provide information to anybody else, as this clause requires them to do, will be the one that the local authority has acquired from all these other bodies, including the police?

Education and Skills Bill ( 3 Jul 2008)

Baroness Perry of Southwark: I am doubly confused about the Minister's earlier answer to me, because it seems crystal clear that information supplied under Clause 17 to the local authority by, for example, the police, the Probation Service, the youth offending team or whoever must be shared with the service provider; in other words, with a school governing body or whatever. Clause 57, to which the Minister extensively...

Education and Skills Bill ( 3 Jul 2008)

Baroness Perry of Southwark: Will the Minister answer a factual question? I know that the duty in the Bill is to pass on the information to the local authority, but would it not also have to be to the governing bodies of schools, which are not within local authorities' purview?

Education and Skills Bill ( 3 Jul 2008)

Baroness Perry of Southwark: I was thinking particularly of Clause 15, which relates to the passing on of social security data and to which some of the amendments refer. Social security data are passed on to the local authority, but what would happen in the case of young people who are at schools that do not come within the local authority's purview—for example, independent schools and city academies? Would it not be...

Education and Skills Bill ( 3 Jul 2008)

Baroness Perry of Southwark: I am sure that the Minister is well aware that the list he read out of what is on the Connexions database and where it comes from covers those people who are already caught up in education and training. We are talking about people who are not in education and training, but they are not on that list. They are not caught up at all. Furthermore, as my noble friend Lord Lucas said, young people...

Education and Skills Bill ( 3 Jul 2008)

Baroness Perry of Southwark: I wish to underline the point which has just been made. I recently chaired a commission on the organisation of secondary schools in one London borough where a sixth form college takes students from no less than six London boroughs besides its own. Has the Minister any idea of the sort of bureaucracy which would be entailed by authorities if they had to do that kind of chasing up? I am sure...

Education and Skills Bill ( 1 Jul 2008)

Baroness Perry of Southwark: I understand the Minister's difficulty with bad employers who might wish to claim that time spent at home thinking about the job qualified within the 280 hours, but I am appalled at the idea that private study is not a properly accredited part of learning. Most people in the second year of the sixth form would have much less than 280 hours of anything that would qualify as guided in the very...

Education and Skills Bill ( 1 Jul 2008)

Baroness Perry of Southwark: To respond to the noble Baroness's point, which I absolutely understand and accept, we on these Benches are arguing about the nature of the accreditation. At the moment it is so rigid it has to be through Ofqual—the QCA as was. Yet multinational companies like Microsoft, BP and British Aerospace offer a real gradient of qualifications which are not accredited by anybody but themselves. If a...

Education and Skills Bill ( 1 Jul 2008)

Baroness Perry of Southwark: I hope that when the Minister replies to the amendments he will tell us that the Government already envisage a much wider spread of places in which education can take place—not least, for example, in the Youth Service, where excellent programmes are widely provided and where young people have a genuine progressive-gradient educational experience in many different aspects. This is...

Education and Skills Bill (25 Jun 2008)

Baroness Perry of Southwark: Before the noble Baroness, Lady Walmsley, replies to the Minister, can we clarify that in one of the Minister's earlier answers he was clear that some countries with no compulsion or sanctions whatsoever have achieved better participation than those with them? The facts that the Minister gave us are absolutely clear. Some countries with sanctions are ranked seventh or even 15th in the OECD...

Education and Skills Bill (25 Jun 2008)

Baroness Perry of Southwark: I have only a brief word to add. I have been around in education for a long time. While five years seems like a long time, it is not in education terms. I entirely support what the Liberal Democrat spokesman and my noble friend said. It would be common sense to allow the current 11 year-olds to run through with all the innovations that the Government have introduced, many of which we...

Education and Skills Bill (25 Jun 2008)

Baroness Perry of Southwark: It is an odd grouping of amendments which brings together the question asked by my noble friend Lord Lucas about how many hours constitute part-time or full-time and the issue of accreditation. It is worrying that accreditation is being used as a blanket and that all education and training has to be accredited to have any valency in the context of the Bill. I chair the quality and standards...

Education and Skills Bill (25 Jun 2008)

Baroness Perry of Southwark: On a slightly different note, when the Minister described the OECD ratings of countries that had compulsion for 16 to 18 year-olds, I noticed that, although Belgium was first and does have compulsion, the other countries were fourth, seventh, fifteenth—I forget the exact numbers. However, it would be interesting to have some information about the countries that were second and third and...

Education and Skills Bill (25 Jun 2008)

Baroness Perry of Southwark: I support the spirit of the amendments. It is immensely important not to introduce the element of education as something which is almost a punishment; something which you have got to do whether you want to or not. Education for young people, as opposed to children, should be something that they do voluntarily with joy, pride and pleasure. I have spent a great part of my life working with...

Education and Skills Bill (25 Jun 2008)

Baroness Perry of Southwark: My name is attached to some of the amendments in this group. I wish to relate some personal experiences that underline the reasons for my support. Some years ago I was asked by a local education authority to run a course for young teenage mothers. In its wisdom, the authority provided a crèche for the children while the mothers attended the course. It did not lead to accredited...

Schools: Teacher Training (17 Jun 2008)

Baroness Perry of Southwark: asked Her Majesty's Government: What action they will take to increase the number of applicants for teacher training to meet future demand.

Schools: Teacher Training (17 Jun 2008)

Baroness Perry of Southwark: My Lords, I thank the noble Lord for that reply. However, if he made the comparison not with 1997 but with last year, would he not feel some concern that there is a drop-off, particularly in the key subjects of mathematics, ICT and modern languages? Does he accept that possibly some of his Government's policies—surrounding teachers with bureaucracy, testing and naming and shaming—have...


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