National News

A-levels are simply too narrow

Almost a quarter of A-level entries were awarded the top grade this year, results published on Thursday show. Pupils and teachers have worked extremely hard for these results and deserve to celebrate. Liberal Democrat Shadow Education Secretary, Sarah Teather MP said "The annual carping of backward-looking commentators who always want to claim standards were better 'back in their day' is unproductive and frankly boring."

17 Aug 2006
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Liberal Democrat Conference starts today

Thousands of Liberal Democrats are today heading to Brighton for their annual conference. The two centre-pieces of the week are expected to be the tax reform paper, to be debated on Tuesday, and the report of the Meeting the Challenge Working Group - 'Trust in People: Make Britain free, fair and green', which will be debated on Wednesday.

16 Aug 2006
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