Jim Knight
Jim Knight
James Philip "Jim" Knight, Baron Knight of Weymouthis a British Labour and Co-operative Party politician, who was the Member of Parliamentfor South Dorset from 2001 until 2010, when he lost his seat. Knight held several ministerial posts during his time as an MP including Minister for the South West and Minister for Employment and Welfare Reform...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth6 March 1965
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Technologically we can deliver the ability of parents to be able to log into a school intranet, be able to see what homework has been set or look at lesson planning, whether the child is attending, see what the timetable is like, all of that is possible and there are some schools that are doing it already.
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Secondary school parents tell me that they are frustrated, that their teachers ignore them, their children don't give them much feedback because they are adolescents, they feel kind of out of the loop.
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There is always frustration from people who work in schools that things keep changing but it is an unfortunate truth with the world of work changing as rapidly as it is, we do have to change.
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We want to show our kids that we love them, we care, and we want to get involved in their lives. One thing we want everyone to remember is this is not a JFK or high school problem. This is a community problem.
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These statistics show that the policies implemented by the Government and programmes funded and delivered by Defra, like the agri-environment schemes that now cover over 1.2 million hectares, are having an encouraging effect on biodiversity in England,
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These last items, it's just a series of things we need to do for ourselves.
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I've always said that I favour an elected second chamber and I think it's important that there are members of the House of Lords who are willing to vote for their own demise.
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Teachers tell me that they'd like to work more closely with parents.
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Without a good quality beach the local economy would undoubtedly suffer.
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I strongly feel that the planning system needs to be made to work for us.
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Police cannot do it alone, politicians can't do it alone. But if we're all collectively working we can get the job done.
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We want to get going, there's no doubt about that. You've got to run the systems to find out what works and what doesn't to define our work program.
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With proper training, certainly this accident could have been avoided,
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It's OSHA's position that Screen Tight should have provided the material safety data sheets to the fire department,