10 days ago by paceni

Next time check your facts Perhaps the Education Minister for Northern Ireland, Caitriona Ruane will have a meeting with Gavin Boyd of the ESA to discuss the failures of the CEM Incas assessment system that she assured had parents was quality assured. Mr Boyd build his publicly financed business on ...

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10 days ago by paceni

Following the unprecedented admissions of failure with Incas by the DENI, CCEA and the CEM at Durham University it may help parents to see how the false reassurances from the Project Management Board from CCEA were not matched by reality. No software errors have been reported Tagged: CEM, CEM at Dur ...

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11 days ago by paceni

CCEA have had to issue yet another apology for failures in the University of Durham CEM Incas assessment system http://www.cemcentre.org/RenderPage.asp?LinkID=11321000 which they imposed on primary schools. This humiliating embarrassment is a legacy from the decisions of Gavin Boyd, the former CCEA ...

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12 days ago by Sackerson

Correction: when I said New Labour encouraged immigration specifically to spite their political opposition and alter British social identity, the word "specifically" may be inappropriate, if by that you understand it to be the only, or principal, reason. Certainly Andrew Neather is using the Guardia ...

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18 days ago by paceni

According to the DENI and CCEA parents of primary school pupils were assured on Incas assessments that; These assessments provide parents and teachers with valuable information about a child’s progress in these important areas of the curriculum. In an attempt to minimise the scale of the failure of ...

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24 days ago by paceni

The Belfast Newsletter published a story highlighting the creation of a Department of Education master database containing records of all school children. http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/39Government-building-big-brother-database39.5730304.jp Ms Ruane’s Department of Education has developed the mul ...

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26 days ago by paceni

The chief executive of Tesco, Sir Terry Leahy has attacked the government’s woeful standards of attainment in education despite massive investment by Labour. “Sadly, despite all the money that has been spent, standards are still woefully low in too many schools,” Sir Terry Leahy Chief Executive of T ...

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31 days ago by paceni

*An Obituary printed in the London Times* Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such ...

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34 days ago by paceni

PACE gave warning about the use of the CCEA Pupil Profile and Incas tests on December 18, 2008 http://paceni.wordpress.com/2008/12/18/the-ccea-pupil-profile-and-incas-tests/ It has proven to be one of the most read posts on the site and has recently undergone a renewed level of interest. Those visit ...

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36 days ago by paceni

On Friday 7th August 2009 Caitriona Ruane said: “I am convinced that when educationalists are seen to be working within the Guidance and delivering a quality education for all children, there will be a realisation that the old system could not continue. At that time, we can return to the issue of le ...

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