education law change ideas

The UK public have submitted 385 law change ideas relating to education.

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6 Comments National service poster Re-Introduce National Service for youth unemployed.
2 Comments Police officers Education for Police Officers

Police officers need basic English literacy and basic numeracy in order to be effective in their

Rosary with cross over sunset sky No state school may take parents’ religion into account as an admission criteria

Scrap the law which permits for schools to take parents' religion or church attendance rec
Attracting the best & brightest minds to UK
Teacher Remove 16-Month Time Limit for New Teachers
Teacher in front of green board with equations on Allow teachers to be ‘physical’
1 Comment Corporal punishment Bring back corporal punishment
Scrap Collective Worship
1 Comment Remove Child Benefit and Pregnancy Grant for under 21’s
1 Comment Scrap law that says schools must hold collective worship
8 Comments nursery Let EYPs teach in nursery and reception classes

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8 Comments Let EYPs teach in nursery and reception classes
6 Comments National service poster Re-Introduce National Service for youth unemployed.

Re-introduce compulsory National Service for anyone aged 18 or over who isn't in further educ
2 Comments Police officers Education for Police Officers

Police officers need basic English literacy and basic numeracy in order to be effective in their

1 Comment Educational quangos; repeal regulation and close IFL
1 Comment Scrap law that says schools must hold collective worship
1 Comment School Assembly (Worship)
1 Comment Religious Education
1 Comment Scrap ELQ for vocational courses in FE colleges
1 Comment Remove OFSTED interference in Holiday Clubs
1 Comment Abolish the weekly £30 paid to encourage some kids to go to school
1 Comment Scrap National Curriculum, shrink Ofsted, create stable standards

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6 Comments National service poster Re-Introduce National Service for youth unemployed.

Re-introduce compulsory National Service for anyone aged 18 or over who isn't in further educ
2 Comments Police officers Education for Police Officers

Police officers need basic English literacy and basic numeracy in order to be effective in their

Front of 70s secondary school building with trees Bring the education out of politics.

We made the Bank of England independent of politics so why can't we do the same with 
Rosary with cross over sunset sky No state school may take parents’ religion into account as an admission criteria

Scrap the law which permits for schools to take parents' religion or church attendance rec
repeal the law that demands collective worship in schools
Remove “faith schools” from our education system
The 3 Exam Boards In England Should Merge
remove daily collective worship from non-faith schools
1 Comment Scrap National Curriculum, shrink Ofsted, create stable standards
Perhaps we should bring back the old O Levels and A Levels.
Scrap the Institute for Learning (IFL)
make fostering and adoption national agency and stop repetition
Stop the Propaganda in school history lessons
Value the achievement of all children.
Faith Schools
End discrimination of Swiss students
Allow qualified graduates to qualify to teach on the job
Financial Education
Reform ASBO’s but don’t get rid of them!
Return to old A Levels system.
Meaningful Exam Grades
Coalition’s internet ‘consultation’ sham as ministers reject every single suggestion
Unfair deal for NQTs
SCRAP THE WAG
Public schools
Compulsory paternity tests
I challenge the government and anybody to prove the contrary of this
Abolish the Government
Tuition Fee for children in schools
School funding
Attracting the best & brightest minds to UK
Restore Grammar schools
repeal the law allowing schools to become trusts
Radically revise university admission policy
Criminal Records wiped totally clean! for someone who is and becomes DEGREE qualified
Religion is a lifestyle choice
Degrees we need.
Degree courses
Repeal the Academies Act
Freedom for charitable raffles
Temporary Event Notices and school events
School detention is is against human rights
Enhanced Disclosure per person rather than activity
How to reform the foreign aid to better help the third world develop, increase food security, reduce CO2, increase forest cover in the UK and build cheap and affordable houses for British people.
Repeal British Parliament sovereignty
Revert back to internal mock exams at secondary school
Rebuilding the educational system ! AND DON’T JUST TAKE ME AS A JOKE. TAKE NOTICE
Bring back Nativity plays in schools
change from a 3 to 4-term school year
If Cannabis Could Cure Cancer, Would’nt You Want It To Be Legal?
Same punishment at school for homophobia and racism
Fewer Education Acts – more parliamentary scrutiny
Employment Referencing Law
is the rise of legal highs and sales of hydroponics equipment linked to the drop in crime
Reduce extensive paper work associated with educational visits
A* Results at A Level and GCSE should be for the top 10% only
Abolish student loans
Restore the BSF Funding.
Make metric labelling compulsory as the primary unit of measurement on all items sold in all UK retailers
Restoring the education system
New Schools
No Dumbing Down
Mandelson’s Book “The Third Man” Should Be Required Reading In All Schools.
Academies Bill
Stop Schools confiscating children’s packed lunched
Smoking Ban – Let’s have a referendum!
Bring back grammar schools to improve social mobility
Don’t like the smoking ban? You know where the door is.
Fixed price Car Insurance as incentive for Teenagers
Unfair School Transport Policy for Low Income Children Living in Rural Areas
early years foundation
Change University Education
Educate prisoners
ofsted
Restore power to the teachers
Remove 16-Month Time Limit for New Teachers
Reverse the decision that all new nurses will be required to have degrees
Change the Ofsted regime
Stop stats tests on primary school children
For an obligatory parenting education scheme
Most children go on later in life to become parents, so why are we not equipping them with the skills needed?
Abolish tuition fees-simple
Secondary Schools to be limited to 800 pupils
Schools to be funded by capitation
STOP SUSPENDING AND EXPELLING SCHOOL KIDS
Stop forcing disabled children to attend mainstream schools
BAN TASER WEAPONS IN USE BY THE POLICE
1 Comment Teach Atheism in Schools.
Remove the link between SEN diagnosis and funding.
Government’s reasons for keeping cannbis illegal
Change the law so teachers are allowed to share information
Ending forced collective worship in schools
Overhaul the Learning & Skills arrangements
Scrap religious assemblies in schools
New Type of School – Centre of Enterprise
Repeal all laws on the books that the authorities and courts ignore and refuse to enforce. Otherwise they are just meaningless propaganda.
Repeal Section 436A of the 1996 Education Act
SSCO scheme: A waste of money??
High Court Judge rules he is of the opinion home educating a child is not in their best interests
sex education for minors
Keep Religion out of State Schools
Greed is good but only for the greedy
Dept. of Education (NI) should not be allowed to invent legislation that does not exist.
Make authorities pursue organisers of female genital mutilation.
Simplification of minibus driving regulations
Freedom of choice for parents and children in Wales
Update definition of forestry to include community and educational use
Child benefit
Education should not be compulsory – at any age
Weak teachers
Less School – more apprenticeships, more e-learning/digital classrooms
Free Schools and Academies
Scrap GTC compulsory membership
Freedom to protect pupils from danger on school trips
Protect school playing fields
Repeal Ofset monopoly
Living in a secular society
European Working Time Directive (EWTD)
Correct the Imbalance of the Equality Bill
Cut EMA
1 Comment Educational quangos; repeal regulation and close IFL
Keep Christanity in the UK
Total Reform Of The Welfare State
Remove the charitable status of fee-paying schools and use the tax raised to invest in state education
childminders and food businesses
Noise at Work (Music teaching)
Remove the requirement on private/public schools to offer free places
1 Comment Abolish the weekly £30 paid to encourage some kids to go to school
Ensure schools employ qualified teachers to teach
How about making sure the laws we already have are enforced?
Loss of schools improvment funding
Faith Schools – Government Finance Thereof
Access to to higher education
Why are prison sentences linked to time
Deregulate higher education
More deregulation of state education.
Allow parents freedom to decide when their children start school, aged 4 or 5
Financial Education – Free to be Rich
Allow teachers to be ‘physical’
Ban mobile phones from class rooms
Well meaning “multiculturalism” is not working.
Repeal the age of consent for sex
Teaching Assistants are there to assist teachers and pupils..but not to be a punch bag
Not allowing homophobia in faith schools
Scrap EMA (Educational Maintenance Allowance)
home educated children
Child support Agency
Derivative Traffic Controls
Culture children more when they are in school
Stop required worship in schools
Return the age of compulsory education and training to age 16.
Building schools is in investment in our future STOP Quangos!
home-educational funding
Remove the necessity for a SEN statement to access special schools
Remove Quango interference in how teachers teach/work
Allow the use of the European Social fund
Remove all religion from all schools
Stop state funded schools selecting pupils on the basis of faith.
Make all educational establishments exempt charities
1 Comment Scrap ELQ for vocational courses in FE colleges
1 Comment Remove charitable status for private schools
Change the Law that affect Charging for Educational Visits
Make more use of schools
Remove computers from schools below secondary level
Compulsory Education legislation
Remove Compulsory Religious Education
Stop substituting the word “Statute” with the word “Law”
Compulsory language in secondary schools
Stop jailing parents for the truancy of their children
Stop truancy patrols
Get rid of the role of Elective Home Education Inspector within the Local Authority
teach children about life after school
Stop Funding Religious Schools
Stop Collective Worship in Schools
Why waste even more money?!
Give the community back to the community we do not want the council telling us what to do with our area
Give the power of disciplining back to parents and teachers.
A Levels
Scrap the ‘Every Child Matter’ agenda
End charitable status for private schools
Parental choice of secondary school is not green
Scrapping of CCTV Cameras in Classrooms in Schools
Scrap University Tuition Fees and Student Loans
Reintroduce special licenses for premises to serve alcohol below the age limit
Free Our Schools
School leaving age and Community Service
Philosophy
Give parents back responsibility for their children and stop penalising employers
Decriminalise and tax recreational drugs
Commit to expert vocational training for non-academic students
Save Money by flattening the structure in education. OFSTED must be scrapped.
Self-Taxing Of Cannabis, An Idea For Legitimacy
Free english and history lessons for nationalists, rascists and fascists
Let children walk or bike to school
Free pupils and teachers from ridiculous health & safety
Remove the statutory compulsion of the EYFS
THE FOUR ‘R’s TO BE THE HEART OF THE NATIONAL CURICLUM
Parenting classes linked to Child Benefit
Remove all ewducation acts since 1976
Prisoners To Do Charity Work
no to collective worship in schools
Teaching Macroeconomics to High-School Students
Redress the fairness of boys’ attainment in education
Education, For Who?
Publishing of any evidence of public dangers and harm, by automatic right
Publishing of any evidence of public dangers and harm, by automatic right
Trust the teachers – let them teach properly
ELQ policy should be reversed
Change the way exams are graded
Scrap the law that forces all schools to hold an act of (broadly Christian) collective worship every day
Remove all ‘internal market’ constraints from public sector
Stop abuse of student visa
why money sense avareness is important in secondary education
Repeal current Drug laws. Replace based on Science not Politics
Government to list 5 existing laws per day on YF for public comment
EMPOWER TEACHERS AND MAKE THEM ABLE TO USE REASONABLE PHYSICAL PUNISHMENT
Smacking Children
Remove Public Schools Charitable Status
stop state interference in education and allow experts to make policy
Freedom to speak in Welsh
LEGALIZE NATURAL PSYCHEDELICS ALREADY!!
Reduce number of SACREs and Agreed Syllabuses for Religious Education
Scrap The Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum and targets.
LOCAL COUNCILS
Repeal laws that say a school caretaker can’t go up a ladder over a certain height!! etc etc
Anonymise UCAS applications
Raise The School Leaving Age To 18
Bring back the cane to restore order in schools
Assault or not??
Replace Childcare Vouchers
New Primary National Curriculum
Free tuition for your first REAL degree
Education
Tuition Fees
Education is a Human Right
CRB checks
CRB Checking
1 Comment Remove OFSTED interference in Holiday Clubs
A qualified teacher in every classroom
Replace compulsory Religious Education with compulsory Moral & Ethical Education
Restoring Headteachers Discretion for Authorising School Absence
Allow teaching assistants to control classes
Require businesses to create entry-level jobs
1 Comment Bring back corporal punishment
Higher Fees/Restrictions For Private Education
1 Comment School Assembly (Worship)
Music in schools should be compulsory
Compulsory overseas service for denial of climate change
Give state schools freedom to charge fees
scrap law that says school must hold collective worship
Target grade GCSE grade A* to C the right to an appropriate education
STOP THE UNFAIR £30 WEEKLY ALLOWANCE FOR 5TH YEARS IN HIGHER EDUCATION
Let foreign students back in!
Ban Middle Class Benefits!
Give Head Teachers back discretion on holidays in termtime
Special educational needs – behavioural difficulties
stop expecting schools to be responsible for moral education
Cutting costs in schools & colleges
Scrap Collective Worship
Scrap Collective Worship
CANNABIS – THE GATEWAY
Equality
Reapeal laws allowing private healthcare and private education
Get rid of faith schools, morning prayers in the House of Commons, and make using religion to aid election to office an indictable offence.
Right to the education you need.
Increase mobility for teachers that want to teach
EMA
Education Policy
Religious freedom
Infant class size – Remove the limit of 30 children in Reception classes
For gods sake leave things alone.
Replace complusary schooling
Methodon Drugs
Health and Safety in Schools
Reduce the ridiculous Red Tape involved in planning school trips
Abolish the 3 year wait for EU citizens & UK residents to pay home student fees
Muslims can wear religious clothing in schools.
Free Schools
Give teachers rights
National Curriculum
Abolish the 3 year wait for EU citizens & UK residents to pay home student fees
Scrap Law on Daily Religious Worship in Schools
Decriminalise drugs. Let people grow cannabis .
Ofsted regulations on children’s summer camps
special educational needs-review policy better provision for dyslexia
Teach respect
Scrap the ‘Institute for Learning’ Quango
Teachers need to be assesed mroe throughly.
Withdraw charitable status of private schools.
False accusations, which are unfounded, against teachers should be deleted and have a limited shelf life
Secularism for LEA Schools
Repeal the Child Poverty Act 2010
Scrap the Food Standards Agency
Make Exams Timetabled…
Remove the need for multiple CRB Checks
Replace Tuition Fees and Maintenance Loans with Graduate Tax
Review of health & safety legislation
Maximum 20 mins work then a break at school
Revoke Sarah’s Law, The Children’s Act (2004) et al
Prescriptions & Education
Healthy Meals gone mad! Remove restrictions on what can be served to children in schools
Slim down the National Curriculum for teachers!
educating children with special needs
Abolish OFSTED
Allowing british students to take their student loan aywhere in the world.
Liberty in Education
Child benefit for one child only
Abolish university fee’s
1 Comment Remove Child Benefit and Pregnancy Grant for under 21’s
Secularise schools : an end to brain-washing our children.
Abolish tax payer funding of student unions
State school admissions policy
Remove law requiring worship in schools
Make education the responsibility of educationalists
Scrap perverse laws extending parental rights past age of majority
THE GENERAL TEACHING COUNCIL
Abolish divisive faith based school assemblies
Jobless schools
school curriculum should be decided by experts in each subject
Scrap the law that schools must hold collective worship
All Faith Schools in the UK to be Abolished
No faith schools
Put academies back under state control
Make Education More Relevant to the World of Work
Worship in schools
Religion in schools
Scrap the legal requirment for compulsory collective worship in schools
STOP COMPULSORY ACT OF WORSHIP IN SCHOOLS
Replace education league tables by subsequent earnings
Restore parental rights.
Suppress compulsory collective worship in schools
Compulsory religious worship in schools.
scrap law that says school must hold collective worship
Abolish law that says school must hold collective worship
Charitable status of private schools.
SuperstitionFreeSchools
Make all schools the same
1 Comment Religious Education
Scrap (Broadly Christian) Collective Worship in Schools
parents freedom to exclude their children from sex education
Religious education
The absurdity of compulsory worship
Education free from religion
Pay students for certain courses
repeal bad law: compulsory collective worship
The daily act of collective worship
Repeal requirement for Christian education in schools.
get rid of of compulsory worship in schools
Collective worship in schools
extend the 12 week qualification period to one year
remove compulsory religious assembly at school
Scrap Ofsted.
Let me choose my child’s school!
remove the requirement for collective worship in state schools
faith schools
Scrap the National Curriculum.
Stop public funding for schools that discriminate children based on religion
Disestablish religion and remove it from government and schools
Scrap Collective Worship In Schools
Stop All Immigration from Any Source Country Until 2020
Abolish religious assemblies in schools
Free educational institutions from copyright
Ban faith schools
An education for children that reflects today’s society
Motorway Yobs Bombard Drivers With Rocks
Scrap the 14-19 Diploma
A modern secular state
Head Teachers Liable for Prosecution
Head Teachers Liable for Prosecution
Repeal the Education and Skills Act 2008
Remove religion as a criterion for selection to State Schools
Scrap religious education advisory councils etc
Cancel the Research Excellence Framework
Abolish SATs tests at primary schools
1 Comment Scrap law that says schools must hold collective worship
LEA – Health and Safety
8 Comments Let EYPs teach in nursery and reception classes
1 Comment Stop compulsory worship in schools
STOP Quangos like the GTC from bypassing the justice system
Remove State subsidy of Faith Schools
the right to choose wich school our kids go to
FE Colleges – funding dependent on ‘success’
Return of Corporal Punishment
Replace Dangerous Dog Act With Dog Ownership Test
Education Quangos

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