EVERY August, the media carries stories about how examinations have become easier as record high results are reported. In March, we hear heart-breaking stories as thousands of parents have hopes of getting their children into their preferred secondary school dashed.
Archive for March, 2009
Graham Lane: Schools admissions annual saga is a good story
By Tribune Web Editor /Sunday, March 29th, 2009THEATRE: Creative responses to death and destruction in Gaza
By Tribune Web Editor /Sunday, March 29th, 2009Go to Gaza, Drink the Sea
Theatro Technis, London
Damascus
Tricycle Theatre, London
THERE have been many attempts to combine visual art installation with theatre, most of them failures. Anyone remember Vanessa Redgrave’s Antony and Cleopatra, complete with portable Balkan bombsite?
Stephen Beer: Summit stakes could not be higher as slump spreads
By Tribune Web Editor /Sunday, March 29th, 2009AMID the battle to prevent a global depression, never have so many economies expected so much from so few people as next week when the leaders of the G20 meet in London. Yet, despite such Churchillian echoes, never have the prospects for disappointment seemed so sure. Almost two years since the financial music stopped, the world is on the brink of the worst slump since the 1930s. Our leaders have already moved on from talking of spending billions to expending trillions of dollars to get us out of this mess. Now, in the space of a few hours on April 2, they must do more.
By Tribune Web Editor /Saturday, March 28th, 2009
WHAT would Confucius say? Recklessly picking up bad habits in its slow march to democracy, China is reported to be studying “new” Labour’s spin doctoring tactics. The Chinese Communist Party, the biggest in the world and which has held power for 60 years, is overhauling its propaganda machine and, according to The Guardian’s Beijing correspondent, [...]
Jeremy Dear: Meritocracy in the UK: it’s coming some time – maybe
By Tribune Web Editor /Saturday, March 28th, 2009IN A meritocracy, working-class people should be able to avail themselves of the same opportunities as anyone else: to study what they want and get any job. All political parties claim to be meritocratic, yet access to many professions is still based almost entirely on where you studied and who you know, which is almost entirely based on where you live, which, in turn, is based on class.
Brendan Barber: March in London and tell the world leaders to put people first
By Tribune Web Editor /Friday, March 27th, 2009Everyone who can to join in should demonstrate their anger over the economic crisis and call for global action to build a better world
Africatastrophe: Millions of jobs traded away
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, March 26th, 2009Dave Tucker describes the devastating impact that neo-liberal policies have had on employment throughout the world – particularly the poorest parts of it
Tribune Comment: The G20 summit of all our fears
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, March 26th, 2009THE two million people in Britain officially without a job and wanting one must be marvelling in bewilderment at the hype surrounding the G20 summit which is set to put the economic world to rights, if some capitals, London at the forefront, are to be believed. Many of the 600,000 leaving school this summer will have a regrettable abundance of time on their hands in which to study the entrails of what the summit really meant and what it achieved as they search in vain for that first job.
Strike-free Olympics sought as TUC and London 2012 sign deal
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, March 26th, 2009THE London Olympics will give unions unprecedented powers to oversee different aspects of the games’ delivery and running, under an agreement signed last week by organisers and the Trades Union Congress.
Time to ‘put people first’ says Barber before G20 summit
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, March 26th, 2009TUC general secretary Brendan Barber says we need a global response from governments to the global economic crisis which is destroying jobs around the world.