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About Me
- Inger Langseth
- Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway
- Je suis professeur de francais langue étrangère au lycée Brundalen à Trondheim. J'enseigne aussi la didactique francaise à l'Université de Trondheim, NTNU.
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The UK Labour Party
The Labour Party states that they feel that the UK are strengthened by the increaslingly interdependent world. The Labour party feels that the world is facing global problems and it is important that we face them on a global scale.
Listing of international problems:
-Poverty
-Disease and hunger
-Terrorism and WMDs
The Labour Party feels that the UKs international role is important. The view it as an extention of their vison at home.
A sort list of what they have done:
-Iraq
-Put up funds for Humen rights organization.
-Global Warming: As president of the G8 nations, they used their influence to get the Kyoto protocol signed by being an example.
Thatcherism
A system of political thought attributed to the governments of Margaret Thatcher.
Characterized by decreased state intervention via the free market economy, monetarist economic policy, privatisation of state-owned industries, lower direct taxation and higher indirect taxation, opposition to trade unions and a reduction of the size of the Welfare State.
Can be compared with Reaganomics in the US
Individualism over collectivism
“Thatcherism' is, I believe, a useful term...No other modern Prime Minister has given his or her name to a particular constellation of policies and values. However it needs to be used with care. The wrong definition is 'whatever Margaret Thatcher herself at any time did or said'. The right definition involves a mixture of free markets, financial discipline, firm control over public expenditure, tax cuts, nationalism, 'Victorian values' (of the Samuel Smiles self-help variety), privatization and a dash of populism.”
- To come to the UK, you will have to produce a passport
- Most of the immigrants in the UK are actually from America
- only 6% comes from other parts of Europe
- 19% comes from the Middle East
- 2001 was the year with the largest number of immigrants=120.000
www.labour.org.uk And
www.labour.org.uk/forreignaffairs04 for the international policy
NHS – National Health Service
- healtcare system in Great Britain (Northern Ireland does not use this title)
publicly funded
fourth largest employer in the World, largest in Europe
employing 1,33 million people.
Provides the majority of healtcare in UK
Funded by taxes
budget in 06/07: £96 billion
Criticism
The length of waiting lists for consultations and surgical procedures.
The levels of antibiotic resistant bacteria (or "superbugs"), such as MRSA and Clostridium difficile, in hospitals.
Many issues with the ongoing NHS IT upgrade.
The decreasing availability of NHS dentistry and the trend towards dentists accepting private patients only.
The lack of availability of some treatments due to their perceived poor cost effectiveness.
The lack of availability of various treatments either due to waiting lists (in the case of medical procedures) or lack of professionals willing to treat NHS patients (in the case of dentistry), leading to people seeking private treatment in cheaper countries overseas - so-called health tourists.
Hospitals and trusts running a financial deficit and getting into debt.
Several high profile scandals have also been attributed to the NHS over the years such as the Alder Hey organs scandal and the Bristol heat scandal.
www.wikipedia.com/NHS
Education in England
-British education tended to keep up the class differences
-In 1965 the Labour government introduced ”the comprehensive secondary school system” 5 years until 11 = Primary school. Most go to a comprehensive school until age of 16. In these schools they can choose from a variety of subjects, both academic and vocational
-GCSE ( General Certificate of Secondary Education) To continue their education either academic or technical
-Two more years of study after which they take GCE (general certificate of education)
-“National tests” government inspectors check on the standards of the school and the teaching
Independent schools do not receive funds from the government or local authorities. They charge school fees (some scholarships may be available for the brightest pupils or for children from poorer families. The schools select pupils according to ability by using an entrance exam. Schools are often single-sex boys schools or girls schools, although many boys schools accept girls in the sixth form (between the ages of 16 and 18). Many of the schools accept a mixture of full boarders (who live in the school grounds during term-time), weekly boarders (who return home only at weekends) and dayboys/daygirls (who return home each evening), but some are only for day pupils.
A preparatory school (usually called a prep school) is a school to prepare pupils to go to a public school. Boys often enter such schools aged about 8 and girls aged about 11. The entrance exams used by most public schools are known as Common Entrance exams and are taken at the age of 13. Some public schools have their own prep schools as well as the senior school, but students from other prep schools can apply to the senior school. Many prep schools belong to an association known as the Incorporated Association of Preparatory Schools (IAPS)
A public school is an independent secondary school which is a charity (not profit-making) and which belongs to one of the public school associations, the largest of which are the Headmasters' Conference (HMC) and the Girls' School Association (GSA). The expression "public school" can be confusing: in many countries other than England a "public school" is a school which is run by the government, which is not the case with these schools. In England the term private school is used to refer to any school which is run to make a profit.
Labour Party
Labour has made education its number one priority since 1997.
''are investing in our schools and the future of our young people to ensure that every child has the best possible start in life''
Points to consider:
What more can we do to raise standards in primary schools, particularly with regard to literacy and numeracy?
How do we improve attainment levels for the most socially disadvantaged pupils?
How do we tailor education to the needs of individual children, including those with special educational needs?
What more can we do to give parents a greater say in their children’s education?
What can be done by the government to improve respect for teachers and tackle bad behavior in schools?
How can we ensure that all children reach the age of five ready to learn?
What measures can be put in place to meet our goal of ensuring that more young people stay on in education or training post 16?
How can we expand access to higher education, particularly for students from socially-disadvantaged backgrounds?
http://www3.labour.org.uk/index.php?id=4092
"the Troubles"
-started in 1968
Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association vs. Royal Ulster Contabulary in Derry.
1969 - The first of 3500 people was killed.
30 year long conflict.
Republican and Loyalist Paramilitary, RUC, NICRA and the British Army
The Good Friday Agreement, April 10th 1998.
Source: Wikipedia
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