Ed Balls stories:
Prince Charles mounts fight to save traditional subjects in primary schools
Nov 19th, 2009 - Mail Online
Traditional subjects such as history and geography will be sidelined in favour of teaching across themes and topics in the biggest shake-up of primary education for 20 years.Sats tests 'may be scrapped', hints Ed Balls
Nov 19th, 2009 - Telegraph
Ed Balls, the Schools Secretary, said he was “not closing the door” to the abolition of exams following a major review.
The move will be seen as an attempt...Balls' bid to evade the axe must fail
Nov 17th, 2009 - FT
Not so much gamekeeper turned poacher as teacher turned troublemaker: the request from Ed Balls, children’s secretary, for an extra £2.6bn over three years to boost education spending has made harder the already tough job of the Treasury...
Old rivalries exposed as Children's Secretary pushes his point
Nov 17th, 2009 - London Evening Standard
Once again, Alistair Darling and Ed Balls seem to be at odds on spending. It is especially big news as the Children's Secretary is the man Gordon Brown wanted to take over as chancellor last June...
Ed Balls 'seeks £2.6bn boost for education spending'
Nov 17th, 2009 - guardian.co.uk
Ed Balls is attempting to secure a £2.6bn increase in education spending until 2014 in an attempt to exempt schools from looming public spending cuts, it was reported today.
Ed Balls videos from YouTube:
- Personal message to Graham...This is a personal message to Graham Badman and Ed Balls regarding the home ed review. We are of course in a confrontational situation here and I thought it might help to try to speak to them ...
- Ed Balls - So whatNu-labours contempt for the British public as demonstrated by Browns closest henchman. He later denied saying 'so what' and changed the Hansard record. Balls claimed £157076 expenses from ...
- Ed Balls and Iain Duncan SmithHaving a bust-up on The Daily Politics just before David Cameron's conference speech.
- Andrew Neil grills Ed Balls...On The Daily Politics, Andrew Neil asks Gordon Brown's wingman, Ed Balls, what's happened to inflation in the UK. With Jenny Scott and Paddy Ashdown.
Ed Balls from WikiPedia:
Edward "Ed" Michael Balls (born 25 February 1967) is a British Labour Party politician; he has been the Labour Co-operative Member of Parliament for the West Yorkshire constituency of Normanton since 2005. Although he only became an MP at the beginning of the current Parliament, he has been an advisor to Prime Minister Gordon Brown since 1994, and is regarded as one of Brown's key lieutenants. Since June 2007, he has served in the Cabinet as Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families.
Balls was born in Norwich, Norfolk and educated at Crossdale Drive Primary School in Keyworth, Notts and then the private boys Nottingham High School. He studied PPE at Keble College, Oxford, and later attended Harvard University as a Kennedy Scholar. Whilst at Oxford he became a member of the Conservative Association: "He joined the Tories at Oxford because they used to book top-flight political speakers, and only members were allowed to attend their lectures. Ed was, however, also a member of the Labour Club. He was more active in that, and was always, at heart, a man of the left."
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