UK.gov urged to rethink education super-database
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Wrong approach to student single ID? UK plans to build an education super-database in which everyone from age 14 is given a single ID number should be put on hold, according to a collection of academics, businessmen and local government officials.â¦
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Calls for a national qualifying exam as research shows wide variations in graduates' performance
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The British Department for Education and Skills (DfES) recently launched a "Music Manifesto" campaign, with the ostensible intention of educating the next generation of British musicians. Unfortunately, they also teamed up with the music industry (EMI, and various artists) to make this popular. EMI has apparently negotiated their end well, so that children in our schools will now be indoctrinated about the illegality of downloading music.The ignorance and audacity of this got to me a little, so I wrote an open letter to the DfES about it. Unfortunately, it's pedantic, as I suppose you have to be when writing to goverment representatives. But I hope you find it useful, and perhaps feel inspired to do something similar, if or when the same thing has happened in your area.
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Creativity in schools needs to be taken "far more seriously" by the government, says a report from MPs.
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IT experts issue a warning over a potential security risk to primary school pupils' personal data.
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The Conservatives on Wednesday demanded a government statement on the handling of data on foreign crime suspects after authorities admitted they had failed for a year to match details sent by the Dutch police on 15 serious crime suspects held in the British DNA police databank.
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And more cash for ICO A committee of MPs has dismissed government denials that recent data losses were the result of individual failures and called for legislation to punish such reckless treatment of private data in future.â¦
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GCSEs and A-levels should be scrapped and replaced by a single diploma, according to a report. Do you agree?
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Campaigners say Whitehall wants even litter-droppers on crime database.
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We'll hide all the blank disks, promise The Data Sharing Review - announced by Gordon Brown after the loss of 25m records from the child benefit database - is calling for input into how government departments and businesses use and share private information about British people.â¦
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The expansion of English education watchdog Ofsted may have made it "unfit for purpose", MPs say.
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Put the government on formal notice the Shadow home secretary David Davies has asked the government to agree get-out clauses with companies it contracts to build its ID card systems and databases so that a Conservative government can ditch the scheme.â¦
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The education secretary says he wants more protection for degree subjects vital to the UK's future.
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Serious doubts are raised on the accuracy of a new ID system being introduced on new UK passports next year.
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As records hit four million Home Office minister Meg Hillier has insisted on the need to debate the future of the National DNA Database.â¦
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VAT discounts could help Educational science centres are facing a funding crisis, a group of MPs has warned in a new report.â¦
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Science & environment: Scientists will this week launch a recruitment campaign aimed at five million members of the British public. Volunteers will be asked to give blood and DNA samples to the UK Biobank, a controversial new national gene database.