Schools: Faith Schools and Free Schools Debate

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Department: Department for Education

Schools: Faith Schools and Free Schools

Lord Tebbit Excerpts
Wednesday 28th January 2015

(9 years, 3 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Nash Portrait Lord Nash
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I agree entirely with the noble Lord. I have visited a number of Sikh schools and have been extremely impressed with the education that they provide, which is not surprising given the ethics and ethos of community and service in Sikhism.

Lord Tebbit Portrait Lord Tebbit (Con)
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My Lords, the noble Baroness, Lady Massey of Darwen, spoke of the dangers of reacting to an educational whim. Will my noble friend assure me that he will not react to the educational whims of that extraordinary group of people who my right honourable friend Michael Gove rightly described as “the Blob”? They are an obstruction to education.

Lord Nash Portrait Lord Nash
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I entirely agree that in our approach to the education of our children we should not act on whims from any source.