"My Lords, does my noble friend agree that many students were disadvantaged by the previous straitjacket of a curriculum that did not allow for anything like enough access to creative subjects and allowed perilously small access to technical subjects? Does she also agree, therefore, that widening the possibility for all …..." Baroness Blower - View Speech
"My Lords, is my noble friend looking forward, as I am, to the freeing up of the curriculum, so that there can be much more drama and other creative subjects in the secondary phase? This will ensure that we have enough students to continue the very good place in which …..." Baroness Blower - View Speech
"My Lords, this is clearly a very useful technology, but given that it has very wide application, can my noble friend say anything about how we monitor the level of possible misrecognition by these systems?..." Baroness Blower - View Speech
"My Lords, I thank my noble friend for all the answers she has given, as I thank the noble Lord for asking the Question. Only this week it was said in this Chamber that the conflict in Sudan does not have a high enough profile in our own media here …..." Baroness Blower - View Speech
"I thank the noble Baroness for the intervention. I am sure that the pupil premium is being used as best as it possibly can be in every school. Often schools are having to top up their pupil premium because, frankly, there is not enough money in it, but I welcome …..." Baroness Blower - View Speech
"My Lords, I am grateful to all the organisations that provided briefings on this crucial subject. I congratulate my noble friend Lady Lister on securing this debate and pay tribute to her for the considerable and tireless work she has done in this area over, frankly, years. The impacts of …..." Baroness Blower - View Speech
"My Lords, my noble friend the Minister has already recognised that there is a gap not just in attainment between advantaged and less advantaged students and pupils; there is also a gap in whether they can access any music education in school. That will lead to a significant downward spiral, …..." Baroness Blower - View Speech
"My Lords, I too congratulate all the Peers who have given their maiden speeches today. I would also like to endorse the speech of my noble friend Lady Bousted in all its particulars. There is a widespread agreement that the current SEND system is, as the NEU describes it, “adversarial, …..." Baroness Blower - View Speech
"My Lords, speaking as a person who was identified as possibly prediabetic and having a significant heart and cholesterol problem, I can tell the House that, when I looked at the charts of what I might be able to eat from both of those sources, it seemed I was left …..." Baroness Blower - View Speech
"Does my noble friend agree with me and the University and College Union that this is the time to make a clean break with the outsourced delivery of prison education and to bring it back in-house to be run by the Department for Education, for the benefit of prisoners and …..." Baroness Blower - View Speech