David Willetts
David Willetts
David Linsay Willetts, Baron Willetts, PCis an English Conservative Party politician and Visiting Professor at King's College London. From 1992 to 2015, he was the Member of Parliamentrepresenting the constituency of Havant in Hampshire. He was the Minister of State for Universities and Science from 2010 until July 2014. Willetts became a member of the House of Lords in 2015...
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Promising to act urgently in 2004, announcing a new system 20 months later and finally having it up and running in 2010 is just not good enough and will not calm the fears of many parents.
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Parents' confidence in Ruth Kelly's ability to maintain the integrity of the staff working in schools is ebbing away.
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If this bill has some steps that improve the quality of education, however modest, we would still back it.
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This is a timid step in the right direction. This bill would have been better if it had been bolder.
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Either Ruth Kelly does not know how many sex offenders have been cleared to work in our schools, in which case she should tell anxious parents now. Or she does not know, in which case her department is shockingly incompetent.
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Now the secretary of state comes to the house to say that she will legislate but she hasn't said she will legislate for a single list.
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Either Ruth Kelly does know how many sex offenders have been cleared to work in our schools, in which case she should tell anxious parents now. Or she does not know, in which case her department is shockingly incompetent.
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What I want her to do is answer the basic factual questions then in the light of that we can review the position she's in.
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We think that is a good practical way of raising the quality of education.
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The prime minister will feel uncomfortable about the sound of daggers being sharpened around him. We in this party are happy to praise the Education Bill, not to bury it.
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We do not believe in quotas. They would not only be undesirable, they would be illegal. There is legal protection for the autonomy of universities in running their own admission arrangements.
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The DSA scheme has not been reviewed for 25 years
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Roger Scruton is one of our great men of speculation
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Looking at scientific inquiry, next paradigm will be based on very large datasets. Scientists are in the lead in handling very large datasets - Hubble telescope or Large Hadron Collider are massive datasets.