Petitions tagged with 'Education System'

• Ban the new Scottish national qualifications
  The new Scottish qualifications cause an unnecessary amount of stress and workload for pupils and staff. Failure of prelims is sky high with the new National 5 subjects, this should be ringing alarm bells for the creators and administrators of the [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• School Phobia, School Refusal & Separation Anxiety in Children to be recognised by all Education Departments and Schools
  School Phobia, School Refusal and Separation Anxiety is growing. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 12 March 2015, Signatures: 797
• Reform of the the education system
  I am a 15 year old about to sit my GCSE's and I know first hand the stress my fellow peers and I are going through.Times have changed and jobs have changed. Technology has improved drastically in the past decade and will keep improving by 200% each [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• a new and better education system for young people 13-18
  ENGLAND need to fix up big time , 18-24 year olds are the least employed ever last year, why you may ask ? Because of the stupid education system they keep changing it to what fits the government no it should be what best for the young kids. No [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Make Michael Gove teach in a state secondary school for a term
  Before Michael,Gove destroys our education system and causes and exodus amongst teaching staff, he should actually try teaching for a term, he may then realise just how unrealistic and damaging his latest proposals are. [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Vote of no confidence in Michael Gove
  As teachers, educators, parents and students, we believe that the Education Secretary is wilfully ignoring what is best for the children of the UK; in favour of his own elitist agenda and the systematic deconstruction of our education system. He must [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Stop the education system from getting rid of our accents
  A bill has been passed recently which is supposedly used to improve our language. This is banning certain Phrases and slang from various schools across the country. An example of this is the word "Gonna", it is understood and accepted that this slang [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• More diversity in schools
  As a part of diversity in schools, I think at least once the children should be taught about the topic of vegetarianism and veganism. [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Mandatory classes regarding life immediately after school.
  Law - What laws might the pupils not be aware of? Things like self-employment law are particularly relevant now yet are largely unknown by the masses because people assume UK is the same as USA which it is very different from. Pedestrian law. [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Politician's children to state schools
  Please sign if you feel that those who represent us should have their children go to a low performing state school. [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• The resignation of Michael Gove
  Michael Gove's radical and draconian reforms and views are going to destroy our education system and leave generations with absolutely no hope. [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Mr Gove to spend 6 Weeks Teaching in a State School.
  I have set up this epetition to have the Secretarty of State for Education Mr Gove experience life in a state school as to allow him a real insight into the education system. [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Michael Gove should no longer be the Secretary of State for Education
  A simple vote of no confidence from head teachers, school governors, teachers, teaching assistants, parents, students, and members of the general public. [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Broadening testing measures in schools to develop and represent more areas of intelligence than just academic.
  I feel the current and newly proposed education system is short changing every student that walks in to a mainstream school. [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Reinstate Speaking & listening marks to English GCSE 2013/14
  Teenagers sitting their English Language GCSE in the 2013/14 academic year will see marks from a completed assessment on speaking and listening will not count towards their final grade, essentially downgrading the importance of this key communication [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Replace Michael Gove as the Secretary of State for Education- No confidence
  Michael Gove is slowly dismantling the education system with policies that have had little consultation and that we feel only suit his own agenda. [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Justice for Edexcel victims
  Students who sat the edexcel C3 unit 6665 GCE Maths paper today (13/06/13) were subjected to a paper that was clearly not based upon the specification, and was unrelated to any preparation students could've taken, or any teaching received. The BBC [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Later School Start Times: Start School At 9:30am
  There are numerous studies in relation to sleep deprivation and poor academic performance and health. Teens spend a great portion of each day in school; however, they are unable to maximize the learning opportunities afforded by the education system, [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Amend The Education System for Those it Neglects
  It is the belief of myself and many others that certain current exams for students from the ages of 15-18 are lauded far too highly, and that pressure is put on students to neglect creative subjects and past-times to focus on academic learning. This [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 21 May 2014, Signatures: 2
• Make Michael Gove Resign
  Michael Gove should resign as the Education Secretary before he can cause more damage to the already hurt education system or insult hard working students anymore. He has displayed an unwillingness to understand the demands that the current system [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Michael Gove to teach in a state school for a term!
  Michael Gove has no understanding of what it means to be a teacher, but is hell-bent on enforcing his changes on the Education system [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Job swap with Michael Gove
  Michael Gove is the man in charge of the education system but he doesn't have that much hands-on experience. I invite him to take part in a job swap - he teaches my Year 3's for one week and I spend a week doing what he does. [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Recognise the Republic of China (Taiwan) and open formal diplomatic relations with the state
  In 1950 the UK Government stopped recognising the Republic of China (Taiwan and several smaller islands) as an independent state so that relations with the People's Republic of China could develop. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 20 March 2014, Signatures: 2
• Keep the history curriculum politically neutral
  We strongly object to the government’s proposed new history curriculum and want it to be scrapped on the following grounds: [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 27 February 2014, Signatures: 2690
• All Mp's and members of the Lords must use state education system
  If all MP's and members of the House of Lords had no choice but to use the state education system, then the standards would dramatically improve. The people who run it should use it and not be allowed to opt out as they supervise its decline [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Why is there no direct job creation from the government?
  I believe essentially job creation would be one part of fixing the current economic state. [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• MPs to send their children to state schools, with no exceptions.
  Very simply, we think it appropriate and only fair that Members of Parliament have the same "choice" as the majority of the people they serve: i.e. "This state school or that state school?". [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Mandatory workshops available to educate all parents on the education system and how it works.
  We would like the government to recognise that there should be a mandatory responsibility for all schools to educate parents on the education system their child enters from age 5. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 12 December 2013, Signatures: 2
• Benefit cuts & basic human rights (this effects everyone)
  We the British people ask for the following; [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Saturday 2 February 2013, Signatures: 127
• Prevent convicted paedophiles from re-entering the education system
  We would like the goverment to do all it can to help prevent convicted paedophiles from re-entering the education system in the United Kingdom. [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Prevent convicted paedophiles from re-entering the education system
  When people are convicted of abusing children, they should NEVER have the privilege of working with them again. Children should be given the maximum protection by responsible adults at a time that they will need it the most. I would like the [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• All those teaching in schools must hold an appropriate teaching qualification
  "We all know that every child deserves to have a high quality teacher for every moment in class." [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 11 October 2013, Signatures: 996
• Stop the EBacc (and Michael Gove) from ruining our education system
  Not enough subjects covered - what about vocational qualifications? [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Saturday 21 September 2013, Signatures: 105
• Keep GCSE's in favour of E-BAC's and Review Michael Goves place on the Cabinet
  Review the recent proposals to the Secondary Education System to save GCSE's! Many people argue that GCSE's should be saved as they have worked for years and Michael Gove should look at ways to improve them rather than axing them for E-Bacs! Perhaps [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Saturday 21 September 2013, Signatures: 38
• Fair treatment for London Metropolitan University students
  2,000 overseas non-EU students are being forced to abandon their studies at London Metropolitan University, following a decision by the UK Border Agency that the university has failed to meet certain commitments. Many of those students have put [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Stop playing politics with international students
  We are deeply concerned about the news that UKBA have revoked London Metropolitan University’s highly trusted sponsor (HTS) status. 2000 international students studying there will have to find a new institution within the next 60 days, or face [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Saturday 7 September 2013, Signatures: 1007
• Remove Michael Gove from the position of Secretary of State for Education
  Michael Gove, a man of superior intelligence has a made a big mess of the education system, and if not stopped, he will ultimately destroy the education system in Britain. He did an injust thing by forcing the exam boards to increase grade bounderies [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• More awareness of LGBT people within PSHE etc. classes in England
  Our petition's aim is to introduce the mandatory teaching of alternative lifestyles (Including LGBT) within the mainstream education system so the the general public can understand other lifestyles better. [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Require MP's to have relevant real life experience
  We need MP's with experience of real life to represent the majority, who the public can relate to in a more positive way than a career politician. [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Stop the return of the old "O-Level" exams in secondary schools.
  The current proposals from a leaked document show that the government want to reintroduce O-Levels as a replacement for GCSEs. This is not only a step backwards, but also an idiotic move. How can the students of tomorrow expect to get by on an [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• changing gsces to o levels and cse is wrong its not fair on the less able students not to be able to try at the same level as the rest
  today it has been announced that they are trying to bring back the two tier education system from the 1950s which only gives the able and more fortunate children the opportunity to gain a good qualification and decent job if this goes a head the [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Tackle Gay Education within Schools
  Currently, with the Gay Marriage consultation, the topic of homosexuality is becoming at the forefront of people's attention. However, still, within the education system, homosexuality lacks the support and accessible information students need and [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 13 June 2013, Signatures: 37
• Financial assistance for young musicians
  The Government should provide a more wide spread financial aid to young musicians with outstanding achievements who wish to study in English Independent Schools and Universities in the UK. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 12 June 2013, Signatures: 2
• Refer unruly school students to schemes such as the Duke of Edinburgh Award or St Johns Ambulace
  Unruly school students are becoming more and more common. The lack of discipline available for use makes students walk all over the education system. We should use schemes that are community help based as an alternative to exclusion or permanent [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 6 June 2013, Signatures: 2
• No military intervention in Syria whatsoever!
  This is to make a stand against any military involvement in Syria. Don't waste tax payers money and risk our servicemen and women fighting another pointless battle. To date, show 1 example of a successful intervention? Not 1 country is working to a [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Reform of the education system at GCSE and A Level
  We want the Government to change the way people are assessed from being examined to submitting a portfolio of work which is marked externally. We want exams to focus more on application of knowledge than on memory tests. [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Make employability skills part of every UK school and university curriculum
  Every survey of UK employers reflects that they need an improvement in graduate and school leaver "employability skills" such as business and customer awareness, communication, self-management, etc. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Tuesday 16 April 2013, Signatures: 25
• Petition for Michael Gove to spend a week working in a comprehensive secondary school
  Many of Gove's policies have been severely criticised by those within and beyond educational establishments. Many of these criticisms rest on the idea that Gove is out of touch with the realities of the education system and fails to understand the [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 17 April 2013, Signatures: 448
• To establish a Royal Commission on Education in England and Wales.
  The present education system has been so meddled with, and grossly underfunded in the public sector, that it is now incoherent and incapable of achieving appropriate goals. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 10 April 2013, Signatures: 67
• Olympic Games & Locog's overrunning budget: Independent Investigation and review
  In 2005, London won the 2012 Olympic Games bid with a stated budget of £2.4 billions. [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Zero Tolerance on Bullying or Violent Behavior
  James Eary was assaulted within school ground no less than a month ago. He was attacked by a group of boys over a social mis-understanding. This left the boy in question needing hospital treatment as stitching in the mouth area. The school promised a [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• STOP BULLYING IN SCHOOLS
  PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION AND HELP TO MAKE A STAND TO STOP BULLYING IN SCHOOLS. [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Stop schools from becoming academies and begin the process of converting existing academies back into Local Authority run schools
  Local Authorities whose council is voted in by the public should take responsibility for our children's schooling. Education should not be controlled by private companies who are not democratically accountable to parents, carers and the general [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Evolving Seconday School Education to Meet the Needs of the 21st Century.
  The current secondary school education system is no longer fit for purpose: [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Bring the old education system back, for the students currently using it.
  Many students in schools today are having to deal with the reality of the education curriculum and system that had been taught from the start of the academic year, being scrapped half way through the year, leaving exams that have been set or planned [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 30 January 2013, Signatures: 3
• Don't Scrap The Current Education System for Current Students
  Many students in schools today are having to deal with the reality of the education curriculum and system that had been taught from the start of the academic year, being scrapped half way through the year, leaving exams that have been set or planned [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Child Protection & The Education System
  As individuals, parents and families in today’s society, we have a duty to protect, safeguard and nurture young children within our community. Central to this concept lies the heart of the education system. I propose that the Government enact laws [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 18 October 2012, Signatures: 58
• Child Protection & The Education System
  As individuals, parents and families in today’s society, we have a duty to protect, safeguard and nurture young children within our community. Central to this concept lies the heart of the education system. However, one may question how an evil, [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• keep children in school to maximise potential
  [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Stop destroying our education system through the creation of academies and free schools
  The government is 'encouraging' more free schools and academies to be created. There is no evidence that these schools improve results and they break links with the local community i.e. academies only have to have one parent governor. We feel this [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Education must be removed from governmental political control
  For too long the education system in this country has suffered as a result of the governmental political popularity contest. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 29 November 2012, Signatures: 46
• Economic Literacy for the UK
  Our current education system does not teach us about the economic infrastructure and financial understanding, creating many economic illiterate people. [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Make the teachings of the English monarchy compulsory in the English education system
  The monarchy is a big part of what makes England a great country and has done for centuries, yet the history of our monarchy is not included in our educational system. This petition wishes for a fair and open debate in introducing children and [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• State funded apprentiship scheme
  Anyone between the age of 15-20 who is looking for work should be able to seek employment as an apprentice, funded by the state, providing they and the employer full fill certain criteria. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 4 October 2012, Signatures: 2
• NO TO MUSLIM CENTRE IN GUILDFORD
  MUSLIM LEADERS ARE FIGHTING TO OPEN A MUSLIM CENTRE IN GUILDFORD THERES OVER 7 IN NEIGHBOURING WOKING NOT INCLUDING MOSQUES MONEY WOULD BE BETTER SPENT IN OUR STRUGGLING EDUCATION SYSTEM SIGN AND SAY NO TO MUSLIM CENTRE IN GUILDFORD [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 29 December 2011, Signatures: 12
• Bring Back The 1920s Education System
  Today education system is bringing the country down. [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Protect Libraries within educational institutes
  We the undersigned believe that libraries within educational institutes are a vital part of the education system and that they should be protected from any form of closure. Due to budget cuts within educational funding, schools are starting to target [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Monday 17 September 2012, Signatures: 220
• Education : Allow Students with Learning disabilities to retake college courses a second time free of charge or with automatic government grant.
  I am a foster carer and look after young people with learning disabilities. I have recently identified a floor in the higher education system that closes the door to progress in a particular course if the student does not obtain a high enough pass [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Saturday 15 September 2012, Signatures: 3
• Teach children how to cook healthy, cheap food in school
  With all the obesity and child poverty the education system needs to teach children all about food. They need to learn about where it comes from, the science of nutrition giving them knowledge of how to feed a family a healthly balanced meal on a [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Teach our kids to code
  Start teaching coding as a part of the curriculum in Yr 5. If it can be introduced as a part of the central curriculum in Year 5, then by the time those kids are drawn up through the education system, there would be far less of a disparity between [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Saturday 8 September 2012, Signatures: 3181
• Benefits should only apply to UK passport holders, and non UK residents should pay tax/ni for a minimum of 5 years before having any entitlement.
  Benefits should only apply to UK passport holders and included in that is the NHS/Education system. They could if they wished to do so make it that all non UK residents have to pay a minimum of 5 years tax/NI before any benefit is due and that should [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Create a direct link between the CBI and eduction policies
  The recent CBI report gives an alarming insight into the massive shortfall of young people with the core skillsets required for current an industry. The CBI should be allowed more influence to ensure that our education system is capable of providing [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 23 August 2012, Signatures: 1
• An Intelligent Agenda To End University Tuition Fees
  This petition is seeking a sensible but radical rethink of our education system in order for our great country to offer FREE University Education. The principle is simple. Advance educuational attainment by two years. In other words, through [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Change the exam results boundaries back to the standards of the 1980s.
  Since the 1980s they have widened the goal posts. Making it easier to achive grades. It devalues our education system and devalues those who try hard. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 12 September 2012, Signatures: 3
• The money previously used for EMA should be spent on internships
  The education system (for the best part) is a failure - the curriculum - instead of 'lighting fires' just 'fills buckets' of knowledge. [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• David Cameron and Nick Clegg to leave office
  I request that the coalition leave office, stand down as there methods of running our society are atrocious. I've had enough of bigots and liars who are in power as naive and ignorant public vote for the promises and not for the action taken, well [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Return to Grammar Educationch
  Under Labour the state education system has failed the pupils of Britain miserably. Children fall into catagories as they evolve and are educated, typically there are Academics and Practicals. The Grammar School system needs to return for those who [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• reform education system
  A non-linear education system... less reliant on fallibility of teachers... with electronic measures of intelligence for employers to recruit from... do we really need much more than physical higher places of learning for medicine and engineering... [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 30 August 2012, Signatures: 2
• Petition against the abolition of GCSE modular examinations
  We want the government to keep the education system modular. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Saturday 25 August 2012, Signatures: 44
• Make "Zeitgeist Moving Forward" part of the British Secondary School Curriculum
  Include this short three hour video into our education system. This is so that the youth of our country can make an informed decision as to how they can contribute to our planet. [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Give children back a childhood
  The ever increasing argument that countless studies are strongly concluding is that children need more than what our concrete walls or tarmac playgrounds can offer them. They need more than what the education system offers them alone. Our children [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Saturday 25 August 2012, Signatures: 9
• Reduce Cuts to Community Projects and Give More Help To Young People Who Need It Most
  The next generation of Britons is the young people of today and yet many are left unemployed and without basic numeracy and literacy skills. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 22 August 2012, Signatures: 4
• Professional Independence
  We the undersigned believe excessive political control of the professional bodies in this country has undermined their flexibility and effectiveness. While political accountability is necessary politicians do not have the professional expertise to [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 17 August 2012, Signatures: 9
• Petition to create an educational-vocational bridging facility so that young people's post school future is not left to chance.
  Every 16 year old should be prevented from leaving the education system unless they have an identified 'next step' such as a job, an apprenticeship, a place in further education or the armed forces. If not they could float off into society with what [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 24 February 2012, Signatures: 4
• Introduce A Compulsary National Service, Community or Military or both, for young unemployed young people.
  It is obvious from recent events that a large proportion of young people have fallen away from "Society", as the majority know it, Many have either dropped out of the education system or never held employment since leaving school or both.This has [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• HANDS OFF THE POLICE FORCE
  Having virtually ruined our NHS and our education system, the politicians are about, by their amateurish and unnecessary meddling, to do the same to the police force. PLEASE, POLITICIANS - HANDS OFF THE POLICE FORCE! [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Work Apprenticeship for Growing Young Youths !!
  Community Centre in our society plays a very pivotal role in building community spirits. Young kids needs guidance and inspiration through work apprenticeship programmes by source of technology. [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Reinstate/Bring Back National Service
  Bring back national service for people leaving school or higher eduction that have not secured full-time employment within 6 months of leaving our education system. This would give the UK people a sense of pride in the younger generation whilst [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Reinstate/Bring Back National Service
  Bring back national service for people leaving school or higher eduction that have not secured full-time employment within 6 months of leaving our education system. This would give the UK people a sense of pride in the younger generation whilst [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Lifetime Benefits ban for those and the families of those who are convicted of Rioting and Violent Public Disorder crimes
  In light of the recent rioting in London and across the country,violent Public disorder and homicidal Arson threats to Human Life, I propose this petition to Ban all those convicted and their families to be banned from claiming benefits. This would [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Bring Back National Service
  This proposal is to re-instate a modernised version of National Service to provide a solution to the reform of young offenders. [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• National Military Service
  To create a National Service scheme which would be used to enrol youths who drop out of the education system with no employment, who cause anti social behaviour or who regularly commit minor crimes. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Wednesday 16 May 2012, Signatures: 111
• Take action to resolve the problems which cause rioting
  The London riots involved many criminal acts but parliament should understand and resolve the underlying problems behind the riots. It should: [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 17 August 2012, Signatures: 2
• End Entrenched Privledge in Education
  We the undersigned call upon HM Government to end the entrenched privledge in the British education system by closing all private and public schools. In order to promote fairness, equality and the end of the class system all children should be [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Friday 17 February 2012, Signatures: 4
• Education, Education, Education (Properly equip our Children and our Economy for the Future)
  The British education system used to be the best in the world but now we are falling behind. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 16 August 2012, Signatures: 4
• Bring 2012 Tuition Fees back to £3000
  This petition is to stop tuition fees being increased to £9,000 meaning that only those with money will be able to go to university effectively creating a 2 tier education system. The people who can afford higher education and the people who can't [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Protection of Access to Universities For All
  We the undersigned believe that whilst reform of our Higher Education system is vital, it must not be done at the expense of students who are capable of making a valid contribution to British society. We want the Government to ensure that [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1
• Introduce more stretching/competitive educational achievement from early years to secondary.
  To attain the best educational results children must be stretched from the start of nursary onwards to secondary. At nursary this does not need to be impossibly hard but formative development occurs at this age and its best for the education system [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Saturday 18 August 2012, Signatures: 2
• Overhaul of the education system
  That attitude to work and education in the country frankly is poor and an overhaul of the system is what is needed to get young people into the right frame of mind. [...]
  Status: closed, Close Date: Thursday 16 August 2012, Signatures: 2
• Abolish SATS
  We, the undersigned, believe that SATS undermine teachers' morale, waste taxpayers' money, and, most importantly, are symptomatic of an education system where teachers aren't actually allowed to educate children or encourage them to think creatively [...]
  Status: rejected, Signatures: 1