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As one of the highest priorities of the UK Government since the late 1990s, education has been the subject of ambitious commitments and significant funding increases. The sector has experienced unprecedented change, with the government seeking improved performance at all levels and for education services and information to be easily accessible by those who use them. It has not surprisingly been a challenging period for central government, Local Authorities, learning providers and of course, the students themselves.
What would you like to change in education? Have your say here and we will endeavour to take your comments to the most appropriate educational body for consideration.
Finance better free education, free youth entertainment, improved public infrastructure and health care with increased personal and corporate UK/EU taxation. Reduce armed UK interference in foreign countries and increase focus on diplomatic and commercial incentives and sanctions. Help develop poor countries; people with something to lose in a social capitalist world have less reason to propagate extreme fundamentalist religious views. In the UK prepare mitigations for a crash/slump in the property market to avoid existing home-owners carrying the full impact, without artificially retaining inflated property prices.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
I feel that students should be entitled to free or even cheaper travel on the trains as well as the buses. I am a student at a college in harrow and I have to use the trains to and from college. This will be very beneficial to me as I do not receive (EMA) and find it hard to make my weekly allowance to buy food, buy resources like books even though I have a job. Linked with the issue about (EMA) I feel and other students at my college that every student should receive (EMA) even if their parents are earning more than £30.000 a year. Thankyou very much for allowing me to have my say and give my input on what I think the government should change.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
Employment for Speech and Language Therapists who have graduated last year and this year at a great cost to them and to the NHS. When one needs help from a speech therapist there are none available. The government are still encouraging young people to study for four years in this specialismand in then they are no jobs for them when they graduate. This is a national scandal and yet another example of how badly the NHS is being run.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
I think respect begins at school, with a return to school uniforms. And calling teacher Sir or Miss instead of Mike or Janet. I also morn the loss of morning assembly.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
To change the system for new teachers so that the support that they get in their first year is consistent across all schools and is monitored as it currently varies so much from school to school and can make such a difference in success of their career in the long term and whether they stay in teaching. We need all the teachers we can get and for so many to be leaving early on in their careers something must be going wrong somewhere.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
As free education is available to everyone in this country, every child should leave school with at least one Qualification a Certificate of Attendance. This certificate could be presented for higher education, to employers and to Benefits Agencies. PS, if you do not have an Attendance Certificate, you do not get Benefits
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
No Disability Discrimination for people with adult Dyslexia and Dysgraxia for those who have severe learning difficulties and who find things more challenging than others no disability discrimination. People should accept that each and every one of us is different not enough is done for people with learning disabilities in modern day society people who are living below the poverty line are not given enough help or support. Not enough is done for people who suffer from severe and endring mental Illness especially disadvantaged groups. Young groups with learning difficulties do not get enough support and are rejected
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
I would like to see more people from less privileged backgrounds encouraged to take up further education, including school visits with discussions about the assistance which is on offer to students, whose parents cannot (for whatever reasons) support them in this. Certainly, in my experience at school eighteen years ago or so, people from mainly nuclear families, who were not poor, were the ones who generally got to go to University. It is enough that some people suffer near poverty in their early years, without their life chances for the future being equally negatively affected. (I do realise there are exceptions to this)
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
school dinners
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
i would like to lower the price if food at our school my friends are on pack lunches because there parents cant afford school meals i go to st.bedes and i would like some thing to be done
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
i want to change my college how will it affect my visa renewal in uk
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
To put a stop to the gap that is starting to widen between private schools and state schools, the haves and have nots. I am sick and tired of hearing about the large class sizes in state schools. HOW CAN THE GOVERNMENT EXPECT TEACHERS TO TEACH EFFECTIVELY WITH LARGE CLASS SIZE NUMBERS? Educational research consistently says 20 is the optimum number per class and children in these flourish educationally. SO WHY OH WHY ARE CLASSES STILL 30 AND RISING????? Its all behaviour management and not enough educational content. The teacher is more like a bouncer in a night club than the educationalist s/he was trained to be. So much suffering for the children, their teachers,headteachers, parents and then society as whole. No wonder we have so many social problems. When will the government learn. They need lessons themselves in basic maths. 20 is the optimum number for primary school classes DO YOU HEAR???
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
too b able too spill
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
An education system that buildson the strengths of all individuals and lets students build skills and knowledge to understand society, culture and the technological aspects of the world that we live in. Included in his is the funding and backing of the government to truly transform education into the power it can become.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
The education system - better quality education for all regardless of capability to pay.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
My English
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
Our Language skills. We can do it we just don’t try
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
Give kids a chance to reach their dreams - keep the safe, healthy and educated
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
To bring back discipline in schools and in the home so that children behave better and become better people in society
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
Kid's aspirations, so their ambitions are not pre-determined by where they arrived in our society
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
I'd like to see 'life skills' taught at schools
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
Give kids a chance to reach their dreams!!
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
The number of teenagers who leave school without hope for the future
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
The youth of today to be a role model to aspire them to do well and to show them that no matter what background you can do well
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
To give more people a chance to get to know our world - a wider perspective; a global perspective. Getting key life skills onto the school agenda - first aid and communication in particular
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
That all children received the same availability of education, health and security
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
The attitude of young people about education, drugs and authority!
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
UK governments attitude to education - financial investment in teachers, materials and peroperty. Simplification of curriculum and decrease in red tape to allow teachers to teach. And the amount of people on 07.26 train into chairing cross
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
The focus on speed cameras to reduce accidents. Education and physical enforcement is the way
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
More funding for resources to help students learn interactively.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
Reduce class sizes.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
testing children when they are ready, not just when they are a certain age.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
Change the standards of education in inner city schools.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
To consult children more in the process of change.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
Access to ICT
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
No School, holidays all the time
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
The number of children in a class
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
School only 4 days a week
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
No school
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
Secondary school ends when your 15 and you can get a job
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
A rollercoaster in our playground
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
No school
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
No homework
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
School food
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
No homework
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
More school holidays.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
I would make break times 10 minutes shorter so people can get a better education.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
You know on wet play we have to stay in, if we had bits of the building we could have apparatus inside so we didn't have to go on the apparatus outside, and then you could have as much fun as you would outside.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
I would like to change playtime so they can be longer
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
I think all the years should get to go swimming, not just year 4.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
Better sports facilities in my school
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
Cleaner toilets in my school
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
I would like more gym clubs in Burton and more adventure playgrounds so we can have more fun. And more learning in school, and treats in playtime.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
I would like to change the food we have at school, because sometimes we are starving by playtime and we have nothing to eat. I don't feel that energetic at playtime and then I am always caught when playing it and stuff.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
I wish we had more toys at school
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
I would like to have Friday's off school
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
Shorter school/uni holidays. Two months in the summer and long breaks over Christmas/Easter and half term are not necessary. There is far too much crammed into term time at present.
Added by Anonymous on 21-02-2008
Greater punishments for parents if their children are regular truants. We need to address this trend now, as the more children leave school before go through the system, the more these children will go on to have children and continue the cycle. People/ parents need to take ownership for their reponsibilities
Added by Anonymous on 21-02-2008
Education should be relevent to life.
Education should get taught the same things, regardless of teacher or school.
Education should be personalised to suit students learning styles.
Added by Anonymous on 26-02-2008
Education should be relevent to life.
Education should be personalised to suit students learning styles.
Everyone should get taught the same things, regardless of teacher or school.
Added by Anonymous on 26-02-2008
The “One Laptop per Child” initiative presents a grand vision for the $100 PC and has almost universal government and industry support. In another 5 years, there will be twice as many people accessing the Mobile Internet as the Internet. We could potentially reach a great many more children throughout the world with a $100 Smart Phone then we will ever be able to reach with the $100 PC. Why don’t we super charge the “One Laptop per Child” initiative as a converged telecommunications and technology industry to sponsor a $100 Smart Phone with Mobile Internet for a new “Connect each Child” agenda.
Added by Greg Garrison on 10-03-2008
I work in adult education and I would like to see greater flexibility in the way adult learning courses are structured, priced and organised.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
parents expectations of what teachers can actually achieve with their child in school when they have hundreds of children to look after.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
The amount of assessment all the way through, they tend to work towards assessment and not learning and enjoying learning.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
More emphasis on vocational education.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
All children should receive the same level of education and that's one of the things I think technology can help achieve, so regardless of background, everyone has the same access.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
Get kids writing more, we need to engage our kids.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
more attention of personalised learning, rather than a formulaic approach for all children.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
Smaller class sizes.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
Everyone to receive the same quality of education.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
Education to be more child centred, so children receive a more broad and balanced curriculum, rather than it being assessment based.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
To motivate students to come back to learning
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
The rigid structure of the curriculum, so teachers and pupils can be free to creative and innovative
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
More support for the IT department, as it is such a progressive area.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
The learner needs to have more control over the way they learn, so it can suit their own needs and so they are not forced into some monolithic system which seems to be the case at the moment.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
More funding from government, education is the future of our country.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
To see government organisations talking to each other a lot more, so that schools aren't bombarded for more and more requests for change and more direct funding coming into schools.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
I'd like to move away from politics interfering with education
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
I want more personalised learning, the children at the heart of everything and the teachers less involved in paperwork, league tables and beuarcracy and more focused on the things they were trained to do.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
cut down the number of exams children sit, I think it's terrible that they start at 7 and then write exams all the way through.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
I'd like to stop the banning of the use of personal technologies being brought into the classrooms. Let them use them to aid learning in the way that they want to.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
I'd pay teachers more, they do an amazing job and just not enough people are doing it of the right kind of quality.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
Until we can stop focusing on test scores and focus on personalised learning, then we are not going to transform education.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
Give more power to teachers to manage behaviour in the classroom.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
The pressure on the curriculum, so we have more freedom to plan our own work
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
The cost to the schools of getting new technology, it's just not cheap enough and it means we are never keeping up.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
More discipline in schools, as more and more at the moment, the teachers don't have the control, the kids do.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
We need to make education child centred and child lead.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
League tables.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
Beauracy, the red tape that surrounds every element of a childs education.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
Less paperwork and more teaching time for teachers.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
Give teaching back to the teachers, stop interfering so much, as teachers are highly trained professionals and know what they are doing.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
I'd make sure all the experience and resources were available to students with disabilities.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
I've moved out of 6th form teaching as I didn't feel there was enough disciple, pupils knew the rules and knew how to push it. Give teachers more power to help educate them.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
Listening to children more about what they want. Children use technology a lot now in their everyday lives and they really want to use that more at school. That's what they'll be doing back out in the work place too.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
More money to provide new technologies, so students are prepared for the future and work.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
The government's and LEA's understanding of what is happening on the ground
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
More resources for children with special needs in mainstream settings.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
Lets treat pupils as individuals, instead of this treat them like sausages approach, I'm very much into personalised learning.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
training for teachers to work with children with special needs and behavioural problems.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
The amount of assessment children get from such an early age.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
I want to see a 4 or 5 year plan form the government, without on the hoof latest initiatives from ministers just wanting to make an impact.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
PwC should consider those whom have done actuarial exams at their own expense for a position within there actuarial function. I graduated with third class Bsc Maths, and undertook the FIA exams; scored above 90 per cent in CT1 - CT 8 exams. Work for Deloitte, but would like to join PwC - deterred because I think degree class is more important to you than a individual.
Added by Patrick Loston on 15-04-2008
School meals are shameful. No plates on a tray like prison!
Added by L on 24-05-2008
I would like to see inclusion of special needs children into mainstream schools to be more effective and I wouldlike to see more money put in to this. I think staff need to receive additional support and training for young people to come into their schools before they arrive and not as a reaction to a crisis created bya lack of services. Headteachers needs to consistently dedicated SEN funding for those students and stfaf for who it is intended.
Added by Jane Parry on 02-06-2008
for working class children to have access to the same standard of education as the upper class...just ban the class system in england which serves only the rich
Added by roz on 08-09-2008
The focus on speed cameras to reduce accidents. Education and physical enforcement is the way
Added by Anonymous on 21-09-2007
UK governments attitude to education - financial investment in teachers, materials and peroperty. Simplification of curriculum and decrease in red tape to allow teachers to teach. And the amount of people on 07.26 train into chairing cross
Added by Anonymous on 21-09-2007
The attitude of young people about education, drugs and authority!
Added by Anonymous on 21-09-2007
Education, individual's rights, crime and health in the UK and worldwide
Added by Anonymous on 21-09-2007
Gun culture / Hoody culture parents to take more interest int heir children. Encourage them to make a differenct, rather than become a crime statistical
Added by Anonymous on 21-09-2007
That all children received the same availability of education, health and security
Added by Anonymous on 21-09-2007
The support available to people suffering from depression and my organisational skills
Added by Anonymous on 21-09-2007
To give more people a chance to get to know our world - a wider perspective; a global perspective. Getting key life skills onto the school agenda - first aid and communication in particular
Added by Anonymous on 21-09-2007
The youth of today to be a role model to aspire them to do well and to show them that no matter what background you can do well
Added by Anonymous on 21-09-2007
Improve people's understanding of other cultures from around the world
Added by Anonymous on 21-09-2007
The number of teenagers who leave school without hope for the future
Added by Anonymous on 21-09-2007
Give kids a chance to reach their dreams!!
Added by Anonymous on 21-09-2007
I'd like to see 'life skills' taught at schools
Added by Anonymous on 21-09-2007
Kid's aspirations, so their ambitions are not pre-determined by where they arrived in our society
Added by Anonymous on 21-09-2007
To bring back discipline in schools and in the home so that children behave better and become better people in society
Added by Anonymous on 21-09-2007
Give kids a chance to reach their dreams - keep the safe, healthy and educated
Added by Anonymous on 21-09-2007
Our Language skills. We can do it we just don’t try
Added by Anonymous on 21-09-2007
My English
Added by Anonymous on 21-09-2007
Improve my lead guitar playing
Added by Anonymous on 21-09-2007
The international language of business to welsh. I'd need to learn welsh though
Added by Anonymous on 21-09-2007
My (in) ability to play the flute
Added by Anonymous on 21-09-2007
Water into wine but I belive that trick has already been done
Added by Anonymous on 21-09-2007
A Light Bulb
Added by Anonymous on 21-09-2007
The ability to follow things through to the end (on a personal development level)
Added by Anonymous on 21-09-2007
I'd like to be in touch with my Chakras, and have the insight to know what people want, to either reach out and influence or know when to avoid
Added by Anonymous on 21-09-2007
The education system - better quality education for all regardless of capability to pay.
Added by Anonymous on 21-09-2007
An education system that buildson the strengths of all individuals and lets students build skills and knowledge to understand society, culture and the technological acpects of the world that we live in. Included in his is the funding and backing of the government to truly transform education into the "power" it can become.
Added by Anonymous on 30-09-2007
too b abel too spill
Added by Anonymous on 05-10-2007
To put a stop to the gap that is starting to widen between private schools and state schools, the haves and have nots. I am sick and tired of hearing about the large class sizes in state schools. HOW CAN THE GOVERNMENT EXPECT TEACHERS TO TEACH EFFECTIVELY WITH LARGE CLASS SIZE NUMBERS? Educational research consistently says 20 is the optimum number per class and children in these flourish educationally. SO WHY OH WHY ARE CLASSES STILL 30 AND RISING????? Its all behaviour management and not enough educational content. The teacher is more like a bouncer in a night club than the educationalist s/he was trained to be. So much suffering for the children, their teachers,headteachers, parents and then society as whole. No wonder we have so many social problems. When will the government learn. They need lessons themselves in basic maths. 20 is the optimum number for primary school classes DO YOU HEAR???
Added by Rebbeca Tring on 09-10-2007
i want to change my college how will it affect my visa renewal in uk
Added by gboyega on 11-10-2007
a offer from yahoo to work with them,or be part of this great search engine/program.
Added by mandy orr on 13-10-2007
i would like to lower the price if food at our school my freinds are on pack lunches because there parents cant afford school meals i go to st.bedes and i would like some thing to be done
Added by chantelle thompson on 15-10-2007
school dinners
Added by tasha on 16-10-2007
I would like to see more people from less priveledged backgrounds encouraged to take up further education, including school visits with discussions about the assistance which is on offer to students, whose parents cannot (for whatever reasons) support them in this. Certainly, in my experience at school eighteen years ago or so, people from mainly nuclear families, who were not poor, were the ones who generally got to go to University. It is enough that some people suffer near poverty in their early years, without their life chances for the future being equally negatively affected. (I do realise there are exceptions to this)
Added by Karen on 23-10-2007
There is so much resources in Africa and yet her people suffer untold hardship, deprivation and oppression. We call upon the west to assist by putting in place strong enlightenment programme that will educate the people to understand the fact that "an evil we do not fight will continue to torment us".
Added by Philips Adelana - President,Campainers for a Better Africa on 26-10-2007
No Disabilty Discrimnation for people with adualt Dyslexia and Dysgraxia for those who have severe learing diffculties and who find things more challenging than others no disabilty discrimnation. People should accept that each and every one of us is diffrent not enough is done for people with learing disabilties in modern day society people who are living below the poverty line are not given enough help or support. Not enough is done for poeple who suffer from severe and endring mental Ilness especially disadvantaged groups. Young groups with learning diffculties do not get enough support and are rejected
Added by anisaabdillahi@yahoo.co.uk on 26-10-2007
As free education is available to everyone in this country, everychild should leave school with at least one Qualification a Certificate of Attendance. This certificate could be presented for higher education, to employers and to Benefits Agencies. PS, if you do not have an Attendance Certificate, you do not get Benefits
Added by Pat Gosbee on 26-10-2007
To change the system for new teachers so that the support that they get in their first year is consistent across all schools and is monitored as it currently varies so much from school to school and can make such a difference in success of their career in the long term and whether they stay in teaching. We need all the teachers we can get and for so many to be leaving early on in their careers something must be going wrong somewhere.
Added by Tara Cooke on 28-10-2007
I think respsct begins at school, with a return to school uniforms.
And calling teacher Sir or Miss instead of Mike or Janet.
I also morn the loss of morning assembly.
Added by David Wallace on 29-10-2007
Employment for Speech and Language Therapists who have graduated last year and this year at a great cost to them and to the NHS. When one needs help from a speech therapist there are none available. The government are still encouraging young people to study for four years in this specialismand in then they are no jobs for them when they graduate. This is a national scandal and yet another example of how badly the NHS is being run.
Added by Mrs Grimshaw on 30-10-2007
I feel that students should be entitled to free or even cheaper travel on the trains as well as the buses. I am a student at a college in harrow and I have to use the trains to and from college. This will be very beneficial to me as I do not recieve (EMA) and find it hard to make my weekly allowance to buy food, buy resources like books even though I have a job. Linked with the issue about (EMA) I feel and other students at my college that every student should recieve (EMA) even if their parents are earning more than £30.000 a year. Thankyou very much for allowing me to have my say and give my input on what I think the government should change.
Added by Nathan Williams on 31-10-2007
Finance better free education, free youth entertainment, improved public infrastructure and health care with increased personal and corporate UK/EU taxation. Reduce armed UK interference in foreign countries and increase focus on diplomatic and commercial incentives and sanctions. Help develop poor countries; people with something to lose in a social capitalist world have less reason to propagate extreme fundamentalist religious views. In the UK prepare mitigations for a crash/slump in the property market to avoid existing home-owners carrying the full impact, without artificially retaining inflated property prices.
Added by Andrew on 06-11-2007
school hours, 1:30pm-2:00pm
Added by frank pooh on 07-11-2007
Gordon Brown is looking young people (esp those capable of social behavious) to stay on at school to 18. I think the opposite - these young people want money and more than likely manual work. Get them trained in apprenticeships and out working earlier....not everyone needs 3 A Levels to succeed
Added by KL on 07-11-2007
having healthy school meals and talk about it to the children in school and what junk food can do to your body
Added by courtnie wood on 07-11-2007
my 8 year old son will not eat what is on the school menu, he gets free school meals and now they are saying maybe give him toast to take to school or cold fishfinger sandwhiches. i dont find this acceptable as they should cater for him...
Added by jill lakin on 08-11-2007
Im a student in a secondary school in year 11 and i think that the new healthy meals are good, but i think the price of the meals is too high. water is a must for me everyday but a bottle costs me 80p in my canteen... whereas i can find it for half or a quater of that somewhere else. things like a slad pot can cost up to £1.70...i wouldnt mind paying that if there was a fair size of salad pot rather that a tiny thing with 10 bits of pasta a spoonful of chicken, 3 bits of lettuce and 2 bits of cucumber. A panini which is a bit of bread filled with ham and cheese costs £1.75 which i think is ridiculous really. i would like the prices to go down a bit on some things.
Added by Lara on 12-11-2007
I would like to see all children given more encouragement to fulfil their potential and love learning, not just to jump through hoops at school. In particular I see very little help or encouragement for children with dyslexia and dyspraxia in the State education system, and many bright children failing to meet their potential.
Added by Anonymous on 13-11-2007
please can we improve the standard of English teaching in the UK.
Added by Anonymous on 22-11-2007
i think that the bullying situation needs to be controlled more than it is being as pupils fight in school and the teachers just stand there as they are worried someone will accuse them of something!
Added by Jordan Campbell on 23-11-2007
I want top quality public services. Better Education. Better Healthcare. More Peace. Recycle everything.
Added by Daniel Wells on 27-11-2007
my school dinners are so healthy, i just hate it
Added by dilan on 28-11-2007
I would love to change the cost of university fees, please.
Added by Anwen on 29-11-2007
I think more information should be given to students around the time of sitting A-levels, alot of students are not aware of the requirements for applying for and how key the results are for some employers, by the time you reach university and are applying its too late to see the options. This information needs to be given before university when there is time to change things.
Added by Anonymous on 15-01-2008
The “One Laptop per Child” initiative presents a grand vision for the $100 PC and has almost universal government and industry support. In another 5 years, there will be twice as many people accessing the Mobile Internet as the Internet. We could potentially reach a great many more children throughout the world with a $100 Smart Phone then we will ever be able to reach with the $100 PC.
Why don’t we super charge the “One Laptop per Child” initiative as a converged telecommunications and technology industry to sponsor a $100 Smart Phone with Mobile Internet for a new “Connect each Child” agenda.
Added by Greg Garrison on 06-02-2008
No School, holidays all the time
Added by Anonymous on 14-02-2008
The number of children in a class
Added by Anonymous on 14-02-2008
School only 4 days a week
Added by Anonymous on 14-02-2008
No school
Added by Anonymous on 14-02-2008
Secondary school ends when your 15 and you can get a job
Added by Anonymous on 14-02-2008
A rollercoaster in our playground
Added by Anonymous on 14-02-2008
No school
Added by Anonymous on 14-02-2008
No homework
Added by Anonymous on 14-02-2008
School food
Added by Anonymous on 14-02-2008
No homework
Added by Anonymous on 14-02-2008
i would like to lower the price if food at our school my friends are on pack lunches because there parents cant afford school meals i go to st.bedes and i would like some thing to be done
Added by Anonymous on 14-02-2008
More school holidays.
Added by Anonymous on 14-02-2008
Summer holidays
Added by Anonymous on 14-02-2008
I would make break times 10 minutes shorter so people can get a better education.
Added by Anonymous on 14-02-2008
You know on wet play we have to stay in, if we had bits of the building we could have apparatus inside so we didn't have to go on the apparatus outside, and then you could have as much fun as you would outside.
Added by Anonymous on 14-02-2008
I would like to change playtime so they can be longer
Added by Anonymous on 14-02-2008
I think all the years should get to go swimming, not just year 4.
Added by Anonymous on 14-02-2008
I'd like to have a big heated swimming pool with built-in slides.
Added by Anonymous on 14-02-2008
Better sports facilities in my school
Added by Anonymous on 14-02-2008
Cleaner toilets in my school
Added by Anonymous on 14-02-2008
I would like more gym clubs in Burton and more adventure playgrounds so we can have more fun. And more learning in school, and treats in playtime.
Added by Anonymous on 14-02-2008
I would like to change the food we have at school, because sometimes we are starving by playtime and we have nothing to eat. I don't feel that energetic at playtime and then I am always caught when playing it and stuff.
Added by Anonymous on 14-02-2008
I wish we had more toys at school
Added by Anonymous on 14-02-2008
I would like to have Friday's off school
Added by Anonymous on 14-02-2008
my school dinners are so healthy, I just hate it
Added by Anonymous on 14-02-2008
school dinners
Added by Anonymous on 14-02-2008
I'm a student in a secondary school in year 11 and i think that the new healthy meals are good, but i think the price of the meals is too high. water is a must for me everyday but a bottle costs me 80p in my canteen... whereas i can find it for half or a quarter of that somewhere else. things like a salad pot can cost up to £1.70...i wouldn't mind paying that if there was a fair size of salad pot rather that a tiny thing with 10 bits of pasta a spoonful of chicken, 3 bits of lettuce and 2 bits of cucumber. A Panini which is a bit of bread filled with ham and cheese costs £1.75 which i think is ridiculous really. i would like the prices to go down a bit on some things.
Added by Anonymous on 14-02-2008
Allow teachers to teach and take the admin away from them. Allow good teachers to stay in the classroom rather than be promoted to a management role in order to get a pay rise. Get rid of bad teachers more quickly. Be far harder on puplis in terms of expected standards of behaviour, dress etc. as slackness there leads to more problems later on in life
Added by richard farnsworth on 14-02-2008
I think more information should be given to students around the time of sitting A-levels, a lot of students are not aware of the requirements for applying for and how key the results are for some employers, by the time you reach university and are applying its too late to see the options. This information needs to be given before university when there is time to change things.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
I would love to change the cost of university fees, please.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
my school dinners are so healthy, I just hate it
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
I want top quality public services. Better Education. Better Healthcare. More Peace. Recycle everything.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
I think that the bullying situation needs to be controlled more than it is being as pupils fight in school and the teachers just stand there as they are worried someone will accuse them of something!
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
please can we improve the standard of English teaching in the UK.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
I would like to see all children given more encouragement to fulfil their potential and love learning, not just to jump through hoops at school. In particular I see very little help or encouragement for children with dyslexia and dyspraxia in the State education system, and many bright children failing to meet their potential.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
I'm a student in a secondary school in year 11 and i think that the new healthy meals are good, but i think the price of the meals is too high. water is a must for me everyday but a bottle costs me 80p in my canteen... whereas i can find it for half or a quarter of that somewhere else. things like a slad pot can cost up to £1.70...i wouldn't mind paying that if there was a fair size of salad pot rather that a tiny thing with 10 bits of pasta a spoonful of chicken, 3 bits of lettuce and 2 bits of cucumber. A Panini which is a bit of bread filled with ham and cheese costs £1.75 which i think is ridiculous really. i would like the prices to go down a bit on some things.
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
my 8 year old son will not eat what is on the school menu, he gets free school meals and now they are saying maybe give him toast to take to school or cold fishfinger sandwiches. i don't find this acceptable as they should cater for him...
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
having healthy school meals and talk about it to the children in school and what junk food can do to your body
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
Gordon Brown is looking young people (esp those capable of social behaviours) to stay on at school to 18. I think the opposite - these young people want money and more than likely manual work. Get them trained in apprenticeships and out working earlier....not everyone needs 3 A Levels to succeed
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
school hours, 1:30pm-2:00pm
Added by Anonymous on 15-02-2008
