Le "modèle" anglo-saxon,  libéral  ... et blairo-socialiste...

  Les petits rapporteurs : Des municipalités anglaises font appel à des centaines de "junior streetwatchers" ("jeunes gardiens des rues"), dés l'âge de  8 ans, et leur offrent des primes pour les inciter à rapporter des délits "contre l'environnement".

  ÉCOLES ANGLAISES :
Discipline, rigueur et esprit compétitif sont les maîtres mots de la mutation mise en œuvre par le gouvernement travailliste..

   Royaume-Uni : L’uniforme discriminatoire
En imposant un fournisseur unique pour l’achat de l’uniforme, les écoles pratiquent une discrimination à l’encontre des élèves pauvres. 

  Directeur d'école en Grande Bretagne :
« Le métier a beaucoup évolué. Aujourd’hui, on est beaucoup plus responsable,
on a plus de pression, on nous demande plus de résultats. »

  Deux fois plus d’enseignants sont partis en retraite anticipée au cours des sept dernières années. 

  35% des élèves de 11 ans ne savent pas lire.

  Un ado sur cinq ne peut situer son pays sur une carte.

   Selon l'OCDE, les écoles privées britanniques ont les meilleurs résultats au monde : FAUX !

  Ecoles publiques fermées aux pauvres.  Un rapport émis par ConfEd, (une association qui représente les dirigeants du secteur de l’éducation locale) dénonce le manque d’intégrité des processus d’admission dans certaines écoles publiques. Des réunions de "sélection" d’élèves sont organisées, durant lesquelles ne sont admis que les enfants "gentils, brillants et riches".  Ainsi, 70 000 parents n’ont pas pu inscrire cette année leurs enfants dans l’école de leur choix. En écartant les élèves issus de milieux pauvres, ces établissements "hors la loi" espèrent rehausser leur taux de réussite aux examens. 

  ... & Moins de pauvres dans les écoles primaires catholiques.

  Les écoles anglaises pourront être gérées par des "trusts".

  L’école britannique livrée au patronat.  En mars 2000, le Conseil européen de Lisbonne avait fixé comme principal objectif à la politique de l’Union en matière d’éducation de produire un capital humain rentable au service de la compétitivité économique. 

  Le créationnisme aux examens.

   "BAGUE DE VIRGINITE" : Une adolescente anglaise, fille d'un pasteur évangélique, perd son procès en Haute Cour.

  Grande-Bretagne : l'athéisme (bientôt ?) au programme scolaire

  Grande-Bretagne :Les sponsors au secours de l'école

  Empreintes digitales pour les enfants d'une école de Londres. Le Royaume-Uni réfléchit à la mise en place d’une loi pour la création d’un fichier national des enfants de moins de douze ans.

Naître et grandir pauvre en Grande-Bretagne  est encore plus pénalisant que dans d’autres pays développés.

  Un demi-million de «sans-logement». A Londres, un enfant sur deux sous le seuil de pauvreté.

  Un demi-million d'enfants britanniques travaillent "illégalement".

«tolérance zéro» et conditions de détention intolérables. Plus de dix milles jeunes délinquants britanniques sont emprisonnés.  «Le bilan du Royaume-Uni en terme d'emprisonnement des enfants est l'un des pires qui se puisse trouver en Europe.»

  Les frais très élevés d’inscription universitaire dissuadent les étudiants issus de familles modestes de s’inscrire en fac.

  De plus en plus d’étudiantes se prostituent ou travaillent dans l’industrie du sexe pour payer les frais d’inscription de leur université.

  Plus de 350 000 Britanniques ont quitté leur île en 2005 pour jouir d'une vie meilleure
Les jeunes Britanniques se voient vivre ailleurs.  Difficulté d' acquérir un logement, hausse de la fiscalité et indigence des services publics, en particulier les transports et le système de soins.

M. Ernest-Antoine Sellière, alors président du patronat français :« Je suis un socialiste britannique »

  Londres, paradis des milliardaires.

  Selon des rapports de l’ONU et de la Banque mondiale :  « Au Royaume-Uni, les inégalités entre riches et pauvres sont les plus importantes du monde occidental, comparables à celles qui existent au Nigeria, et plus profondes que celles que l’on trouve, par exemple, à la Jamaïque, au Sri Lanka ou en Ethiopie .»

  Grande Bretagne :  premier pays où chaque déplacement de véhicule sera enregistré.

  Les Britanniques inventent l'ultrason antijeunes.

   De plus en plus de mineurs hospitalisés pour des problèmes d'alcool. Le nombre de mineurs hospitalisés en Angleterre pour avoir trop bu a augmenté de 20% en un an.
 

Beuark.
Ségolène Royal rend hommage à la politique de Tony Blair.

Bien qu'incités par leurs "spin doctors" à ne pas crier victoire trop tôt, les conservateurs anglais, qui se préparent à revenir au pouvoir, ont un chapitre "éducation" pour leurs "100 premiers jours".

Leur modèle est le système éducatif suèdois, qui a initié l'ouverture de 900 "écoles indépendantes" ces quinze dernières années. Pour la Grande Bretagne, il faudrait donc en ouvrir jusqu'à plus de 5 000.

Il s'agit d'écoles privées (niveau primaire et collège), "sans but lucratif", ouvertes et géres par des associations parentales, caritatives, et/ou des entreprises privées, et financées à 100% par les contribuables. 
Celles situées dans des quartiers difficiles recevraient un financement supplémentaire par élève. 
Le tout serait contrôlé par une agence "indépendante" veillant à ce que des écoles ne soient pas ouvertes par des organisations "inappropriées".

Les parents seraient libres de choisir à leur convenance ("premier arrivé, premier servi").

Ces écoles susciteront, pensent-ils, un grand intérêt parmi les classes moyennes qui ont déserté le système public sous le gouvernement travailliste.
Les écoles publiques obtenant de mauvais résultats seront fermées et pourront être remplacées par ce nouveau type d'écoles "libres".
Ils pensent même que les traditionnelles écoles payantes seraient contraintes de fermer ou de rejoindre le nouveau système.

Pour le primaire, les conservateurs envisagent également d'ouvrir des centaines d'écoles du 
type "city academy" (*), estimant que ce programme initié par le Labour est un succès.

Les syndicats sont hostiles à ce système qui mettrait fin aux conventions collectives à l'échelon national. Et estiment que l'expérimentation suèdoise n'a fait qu'accroître la ségrégation sociale...
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(*) Tony Blair, "travailliste", a lui-même inauguré le concept d' independent state schools en créant les city academies, financées par des mècènes du monde des affaires et supervisées par Whitehall (ministère de l'enseignement supérieur). 
Sur les 200 programmées, 83, à très petits effectifs, seraient actuellement ouvertes (sur 23 000 établissements publics)

By Glen Owen -  28th September 2008 -

This week's Tory conference will be told the local authority monopoly over schools would be abolished within weeks of the party coming to power – a move that would almost certainly trigger mass strikes.

Scores of ‘bog standard’ comprehensives could be driven out of business by ‘free schools’, funded by the taxpayer but with a private school ethos.

They would be set up by companies or groups of parents and would initially not be allowed to make a profit. But opponents will still see the move as free marketeers trying to dismantle state education.

Last night, some experts claimed that the plans, drawn up after months of brainstorming for the party’s General Election manifesto, could lead to admissions chaos and planning gridlock.

But senior aides to Tory leader David Cameron believe that the shortage of good state schools is the ‘number one dinner party topic’ and a bold solution to the problem would prove a massive vote winner.

The reform, described by the party’s policy advisers as ‘the most well-thought out and far-advanced manifesto pledge’, is modelled on changes introduced in Sweden 15 years ago. Academic results there have shot up after pupils and parents were allowed to select schools rather than the other way round.

‘We have seen the future in Sweden and it works,’ said Shadow Schools Secretary Michael Gove.

‘After 15 years, 900 new schools have been created and standards have been driven up. If it can work there it can work here.’

 It would be the most dramatic change since the introduction of comprehensives and the abolition of grammar schools.

Parents would be allowed to use the money spent on their children at local authority schools – about £6,000 a pupil – and pay for a place at a new independent state school. If parents are unhappy with the schools in their area they could band together and apply for a permit to start a new one.

Companies, charities or private schools would also be able to run them. Councils would lose the power to decide whether new schools can be built and planning regulations would be swept aside.

The school’s owners would pay for the new buildings by either renting them using a lump sum borrowed against future funding or by using a capital grant from the Government.

Pupils would have to follow a core curriculum set down by Whitehall, but teachers would have much more freedom over the choice of subjects.

Selection by ability would be forbidden but parents would not be tied into catchment areas. Schools would be smaller, with around 200 pupils rather than the 1,000 in the average secondary school, and more basic in terms of buildings and facilities.

To avoid the schools becoming the preserve of the middle classes, the money per pupil would rise to £10,000 for children from deprived areas.

Mr Gove claims the idea is backed by the Liberal Democrats and the Blairite wing of the Labour Party.  ‘It is supported by everyone from [former Health Secretary] Alan Milburn to Nick Clegg,’ he said.

Mr Gove refuses to say how many schools might be forced to close – aware it will be seized on by opponents – but insists there has been a ‘net rise’ in the number of schools in Sweden. Tony Blair attempted to introduce independent state schools through his city academies, funded by business donors and run by Whitehall.

But opposition from the Labour Left meant local authorities still  had to approve them, and all but a handful were takeovers of existing schools. Academies now account for just 83 out of 23,000 state schools.

Private schools would be expected to play a key part in the ‘free schools’ shake-up. Ten independent schools, including Wellington College, already sponsor academies; under the Gove plan, they would establish charitable wings to run chains of ‘free schools’.

Tory advisers including experts from the think-tank Policy Exchange, are still debating details. Some argue schools should be allowed to make a profit as an incentive to be efficient, a move which has been resisted by Mr Gove. Another issue, yet to be resolved, is whether the ‘free schools’ should have a uniform.

Last night, the unions vowed to oppose the reforms. John Bangs, of the National Union of Teachers, said: ‘The lesson of the Swedish experiment is that it has led to an increase in social segregation. This plan would lead to absolute chaos.’

Professor Alan Smithers, of Buckingham University, said the plan was ‘fundamentally flawed’ as good schools would still be over-subscribed. He said: ‘The Conservatives say that more schools would spring up in response. But where would the pupils go in the meantime?’

Isabel Oakeshott, Deputy Political Editor - September 28, 2008 - 

UP to 5,000 new private schools funded by the taxpayer are to be created under Tory plans to revolutionise the way children are taught.

David Cameron will this week reveal the scale of the party’s ambitions to transform the education system, detailing proposals to replace failing comprehensives and primaries with new “free” schools run by parents, charities and private firms.

They will be given extraordinary freedom to set their own curriculum and will be allowed to abandon GCSEs and A-levels in favour of the International Baccalaureate, European or American exams.

A senior Tory source said: “The mission to shake up our failing schools will be the central feature of our campaign to become the next government.”

The Tories believe the independently run schools - funded by the state - will have huge appeal among middle-class families who have deserted the maintained sector under Labour. They even believe that traditional fee-paying schools could be forced to close, or to join the new scheme, as parents opt back into the reformed state system.

The plans are likely to provoke a showdown with the teaching unions, who fear the loss of national pay bargaining.

Last night Labour ministers labelled the move a “risky experiment”, saying they were a “recipe for chaos”.

The full extent of the Conservatives’ plans were set out by Michael Gove, the shadow education secretary, on the eve of the Tory party conference in Birmingham. In an interview with The Sunday Times he said: “It is our intention from day one to make the changes necessary to get new providers into the state school system. We want as much choice for parents as possible.”

Tory high command has been rattled by a sudden narrowing of the party’s lead in the opinion polls. It has fallen from 28 points to 10. Conservative MPs are under strict orders from spin doctors not to appear “complacent” about victory at the next election.

Preparations for government are already well under way, with a “grid” being drawn up for the first 100 days in power. Privately, the party is so confident of winning that Francis Maude, shadow minister for the Cabinet Office, has written to Sir Gus O’Donnell, head of the civil service, asking for two civil servants to be seconded to Conservative Central Office to smooth the transition.

In a new policy, the Tories plan to appoint 12 chief executives from the private sector to act as “superheads” for each Whitehall department.

The new schools will be presented as an expansion of the state system. They will be modelled on a Swedish scheme in which 900 independently run schools have been established in 15 years.

Under the Swedish model, parents can shop around for their children’s education, with admissions offered on a first come, first served basis. Privately operated schools receive a set sum from the taxpayer for every pupil registered.

Organisations would receive a higher fee per pupil in deprived areas to encourage them to open schools there. The schools would not be allowed to make a profit.

Gove pointed out that there are six times as many pupils in England as there are in Sweden, implying that, in the long term, up to 5,400 new schools could spring up in England if the model were equally successful here. In Sweden the new schools had “helped to raise standards for all”.

He added: “The experience from Sweden is that people who used to be educated privately are now educated in state schools. I would expect the same thing would happen here and would welcome it.”

An independent licensing agency would regulate the system to guard against inappropriate organisations opening schools.

It is predicted that poorly performing state schools would be forced to raise their standards or to close.

Jim Knight, the schools minister, said that Gove should “come clean about the true cost of his Swedish experiment”.

The Conservatives also plan to open hundreds of city academy primary schools based on Labour’s successful academy scheme. 

By Richard Garner - Wednesday, 29 November 2006 - 

The Conservatives have ruled out the introduction of education vouchers for parents if they win the next election.

David Willetts, their education spokesman, told a conference yesterday at Wellington College, an independent school in Berkshire: "David Cameron and I are quite clear - we're not pursuing the idea of the full-blown voucher."

Under the scheme, which was Conservative policy at the last election, parents would have been given a flat-rate voucher of some £5,000 a year to cover the cost of a child's education. They could spend it at the school of their choice, private or state.

However, Mr Willetts told a gathering of independent and state school headteachers that the scheme would mean state subsidies of £3bn a year to the 600,000 or so parents who already sent their children to independent schools. He said there would be nothing to stop independent schools raising their fees by £5,000 and pocketing the cash from the state.