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Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Lord Willis of Knaresborough (Liberal Democrat), on Wednesday, 29 April 1998, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 26 members in total.

CHIEF INSPECTOR OF SCHOOLS

That this House notes with gret concern the comments of the Chief Inspector of Schools who in a speech to the right wing think-tank Politeia claimed there was no evidence that schools are underfunded and further claimed that teachers were wasting too much time in meaningless activities; believes that local education authorities require significantly increased levels of capital and revenue resources to address the funding crises in United Kingdom schools; and further believes that the Government should censure the Chief Inspector of Schools and ask him to consider his position.

Amendments

The Early day motion has received 2 amendments.

1275A2
leave out from 'House' to end and add 'wholeheartedly congratulates the Chief Inspector of Schools for his courageous campaign to overturn the disastrous teaching doctrines dating from the 1960's, which have undermined the learning prospects of generations of school children.'.
1275A1
at end add 'particularly as his own annual report for 1996-97 states on page 15 that shortages in books and equipment affect teaching adversely in one in four secondary schools and one in 10 primary schools, and that in half of the schools recently inspected by OFSTED which had been judged to have inadequate resources, the vagaries of resource allocation meant that the school had not received sufficient funding to do the job it was expected to do, and on page 29 that "insufficient funding partly explained the unsatisfactory learning resources in one-third of the primary schools visited.".'.

Secondary information

Type
Early day motion
Reference
1275 
1275A2 
1275A1 
Session
1997-98
Subjects
Office for Standards in Education Schools Speeches Politeia Woodhead, Chris
Link
View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk