Category: Education
Carol Vorderman Heads Maths Taskforce
Eric Ollerenshaw with Carol Vorderman at the launch of the Maths Taskforce
Former teacher and Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Lancaster and Fleetwood, Eric Ollerenshaw, joined Carol Vorderman in her campaign to raise maths standards.
Our Plan for Change
David Cameron has outlined our plan for change and promised that a Conservative Government will rebuild our battered economy, renew our bureaucratised NHS and repair our broken society.
He stressed that in these difficult times, Britain needs leadership, character and judgement:
‘Stealth’ Attack on Lancaster’s Grammar Schools
Eric Ollerenshaw, Lancaster’s Parliamentary Candidate, has has condemned moves by the Government to encourage an attack by stealth on Lancaster Royal Grammar School and Lancaster Girls Grammar School.
Jim Knight, the Government’s Schools Minister, has begun reviewing the system on which parents can be balloted on the future of grammar schools like LRGS and Lancaster Girls Grammar.
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Eric Welcomes Delay to Academy School Decision
Eric Ollerenshaw, Lancaster and Fleetwood’s Conservative Parliamentary Candidate, has welcomed the news that the proposed new Lancaster School Academy has been put on the back-burner until 2009.
The delay to the decision on the School Academy, which would have been made up of Hornby High School, Skerton High School and Central Lancaster High School, has now focused discussions on a possible expansion of Central Lancaster High School.
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Lancaster School Academy?
The Labour-run County Council has just announced it will be consulting on closing Skerton High School, Hornby High School and Central Lancaster High School.
Labour has proposed a policy that would see these three schools closed in favour of a new 900-place Academy.
