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Thursday, 12 June 2003
The full
policy document and policy summary is available online at: http://www.righttochoose.com
"Vote Conservative and cut schools red tape"
Vote Conservative -
and cut the massive paper mountain crippling schools and curbing the ability of
teachers to teach.
That was the clear message sent out by Shadow
Education Secretary Tim Collins after it emerged that the official forms piling
up in head-teachers' intrays would stretch twice the length of the new Queen
Mary 2 cruise liner if laid end to end.
According to statistics released
by the Conservatives, each school in England received an average of 12 pages of
paperwork every day of the school year in 2003 - a total of 2,280 pages of A4,
stretching to 677 metres. That compares with the 345 metres length of the QM2,
the 248 metres height of Canary Wharf , and the mere 50 metre height of Nelson's
Column.
Pledging to slash the schools paper pile back by at least
two-thirds a few years after the Conservatives are returned to power, Mr Collins
said: "Tony Blair is talking about setting schools free, but we are showing what
he is really doing... which is to pile huge amounts of paperwork on them. The
total amount of paperwork sent to schools by this Government last year alone is
nearly twice the length of the Queen Mary 2.
"If people really want their
schools to be set free of red tape and to allow teachers to teach, they know
they have to vote Conservative at the next election."
His point was
graphically rammed home when a giant poster was erected across the front of
Conservative Party HQ in London revealing how Labour's obsession with control
over all aspects of education has saddled schools with a level of paperwork
outstripping the combined length of the QM2, Canary Wharf and Big Ben.
Mr
Collins said that under a Conservative administration, head teachers would win
back the authority to run their own schools, with control over budgets and
freedom to hire and reward staff, without being subject to centrally-set
national targets, or the annual floodtide of directives from Whitehall and
various educational quangos. |
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