DEM not gonna CON dis NATION: Rolling UK politics in the short-lived post-Murdoch era

tbf it does need changing. Whether they'll actually make it any better is another matter...

(also the kids are probably not actually going to find a CS approach to exciting things like algorithms and data structures any more interesting, but it might help if they knew what computer science actually is, before returning to the Word and Excel which will be infinitely more useful to most of them. hell, I've probably used the Excel I learnt at school more than anything I learnt in a comp. sci. degree, and I'm a programmer)

(I was also going to say that it would have helped me to know what "computer science" actually was before I thought I'd go and study it for 3 years, but going by the recent graduates we've had working here it could mean almost anything at university level in the UK anyway)

"Instead of children bored out of their minds being taught how to use Word or Excel by bored teachers, we could have 11-year-olds able to write simple 2D computer animations," he said.

yeah this is kind of glib but fundamentally otm.

I wish I knew a bit more Excel tbh

"Instead of children bored out of their minds being taught how to play guitar or piano by bored teachers, we could have 11-year-olds able to write simple mobile phone ringtones" he said.

using office apps probably ought to be a separate subject, Computer Science doesn't come into it. having said that, i've never used Excel in my life except when i've been teaching somebody else to use it so.

proposed title for the Word/Powerpoint/Excel curriculum: "Your Adult Life is Going to Suck"

not many job ads asking for experience of creating simple 2d computer animations ime

(also my kids already do simple animation alongside the office stuff)

this could be great so long as they are able to get teachers who can do it!

tbf my memories of being taught logo were a bit like being taught to create simple 2d computer animations a la Scratch.

Get some ex-squaddies in, teach 'em some simple 2d computer animation and simple 2d discipline

7 million smart phones were activated on Christmas Day and Angry Birds was download 6.5 million times on the same day so I suppose simple 2d animation might be a better earner than learning pivot tables.

They should make Excel part of the Maths GCSE curriculum. Word can fuck itself though tbh.

(also my kids already do simple animation alongside the office stuff)

Mine too. Gove seems to be slagging off the whole of ICT teaching before he's even got anything to replace it - he's quite the motivator.

all the ict teachers i know slag off the ict syllabus fwiw

(i know 2 ict teachers so i am obviously v qualified in this area)

(also my kids already do simple animation alongside the office stuff)
Scottish schools don't have ICT the same way English/Welsh ones do. The Scottish curriculum is much more CS-focused, in the way Gove wants to replace ICT.

There are also usually separate subjects (at my school it was called Secretarial Studies!) that teach Word/Excel.

http://politicalscrapbook.net/2012/01/lib-dems-call-voters-nutters/

Liberal Democrats in Sefton, Merseyside, have been accused of slurring a number of local residents as “nutters” on a document highlighting people to whom party literature should not be delivered to.

http://cdn.politicalscrapbook.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/sefton_lib_dems_nutters.jpg

xp They dressed it up for us. Ours was "Business Studies", but was just touch-typing, excel, etc. Computing was for the hard core BASIC coding of text adventures where all paths led to insults, creating animated dick gifs, etc.

We had a year of "Word Processing"; utterly boring at the time but in retrospect learning to touch-type was one of the more useful things I learned at school wrt my life now.

I don't get it, of all the batshit/stupid/counterproductive/enraging/outright evil government announcements this one seems pretty uncontroversial?

It's not even the worst thing they've said today.

http://blogs.independent.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/127971098.jpg

^ just think what fun kids could have turning this into an animated gif

http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2010/4/28/129169322954634500.jpg

Hitting those young disabled scroungers and workshy cancer ridden spongers right where it hurts

God bless our undemocratic and antiquated second chamber.

http://www.politicshome.com/uk/story/23779/

"Hey, we really are the scum you think we are!"

(I like how they use £1.6bn/5 years, as £320m/year would make them seem like miserly penny-pinchers kicking Tiny Tim's crutches away)

2k12: right-stakhanovism

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2086999/Is-Britains-busiest-mum-Meet-mum-ELEVEN-refuses-claim-benefits.html

"You are HOW old? Will Smith's daughter Willow looks well beyond her 11 years on the red carpet in yellow gown"

"Aren't they a bit short for your age? Teenage sisters Kendall and Kylie Jenner slip into thigh-skimming mini dresses"

Blech.

Think this cunto might not have joined the right party in the first place:

Mr Bozier, 27, who now runs his own digital business, said: "The Labour Party today is not the Labour Party I joined six years ago when Tony Blair was leader.

"Blair and New Labour had the reforming zeal to radically change our public services. It was a pro-aspiration, pro-business party, which made sense to me and to the country. The party has moved so far away from it that I no longer wish to be a part of it. At the same time, Cameron's policies have picked up that reforming zeal and are continuing in the spirit of Blair, so I have decided to join the Conservatives."

lol

LOL @ Gove. So stuuuuupid.

The Gove thing has to be a set-up for the Queen to gracefully decline a new yacht thereby proving that we are, in fact, all in it together.

xpost it's more "support whoever's winning" re Bozier.

Queen in "fuckin' avin it son!" shocka!

Fully support everyone on ILX chipping in to buy a massive fuckoff yacht, but only if Matt DC can play balearic yacht techno on it!

Mr Gove wrote: "In spite, and perhaps because of the austere times, the celebration should go beyond those of previous jubilees and mark the greater achievement that the diamond anniversary represents.

Repulsive little twerp

New yacht for the Queen? We're all on it together.

Let it sail close to the shore so we can all wave!

(too soon? My name is Frankie Boyle good evening!)

2.30pm: Michael Gove, the education secretary, takes questions in the Commons.

It's not the arrogance that appals me about Gove there, it's the sycophancy of the smarmy little man.

I think that's a given.

Tory cabinet minister arrogant, insensitive and a royalist sycophant.

He also charged the taxpayer for eight coffee spoons and cake forks, worth £5.95 each, four breakfast knives and a woven door mat worth £30.

I mean, how would you expect someone earning £64,000 a year to effectively discharge their parliamentary duties without some free fucking spoons?

wtf is a 'breakfast knife'?

things you don't have to wash up before dinner.

First mention of Michael Gove on ILX is prescient.

Michael Gove is a cockfarmer.
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to be fair £60m is only a quid each and i dislike the queen less than some of my work colleagues.

as long as i get to sign a massive birthday card

£60m would be the cost of the boat - I suspect there might be some ongoing costs associated with it. Of course I'm sure the Queen wouldn't mind if it was branded up like a football shirt if it saved us all a few bob.

Take the £60mn out of the salaries of MPs, and double as much out of the millionaires in the cabinet.

If that means generations of their families starving to death, so be it.