Mcconnell: How Left-Wing Labour Let Down a Generation of Our Pupils

The Herald › February 22, 2005

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JACK McConnell has launched a blistering attack on the progressive educational policies of the 1980s, claiming they had been devastating for generations of Scottish youngsters.

The first minister, at one of his regular presidential-style briefings with the media, yesterday rounded on his own party's past education policies as he spoke of the Scottish Executive's plans for "schools of ambitions" to be launched tomorrow.

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Mcconnell: How Left-Wing Labour Let Down a Generation of Our Pupils

Calling for a shift away from the 1980s culture of not wearing school uniform and not celebrating achievement, he ...

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