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PAG Event: "GDPR: D-Day is here"
"GDPR: D-Day is here"A presentation by Iain McDonald, IoM Information Commissioner
The videos: privacy generations Google duplex AI assistant |
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A parent's view of league tables and benchmarking pupil attainment.
The issue of League Tables and related benchmarking of pupil performance between jurisdictions has recently come to the fore with the publication by Daphne Caine MHK of her annual Children’s Champion Report together with questions being asked of the Department of Education, Sport & Culture (DESC) in a recent (16th March 2018) sitting of the Social Affairs Policy Review Committee.
The DESC has long been opposed to league tables and in December 2017 published a document highlighting their arguments against such.
The Department’s Service Delivery Plan (2016-2021) highlights that part of its vision is for “a world class education system for all…”.
The author submits that part of any world class education system would be an enviable benchmarked record of attainment whilst acknowledging and ensuring that other outcomes such as key skills and the development of personal qualities have a prominent and important role in the curriculum. Such skills and qualities are not however, in the author’s opinion, mutually exclusive to high academic attainment.
As a parent of two children now in Key Stage 3, I analysed a variety of responses made by the Department in relation to requests (submitted by myself and other individuals) pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act 2015. Such requests sought attainment data for the end (Year 6) of Key Stage 2 (KS2 which overall encompasses Years 3-6) for each of the Island’s thirty-two primary schools over a period of years.
My initial focus has been on the most recent academic year (2016-17) where full attainment results were only published by the Department subsequent to the applicant seeking a review by the Information Commissioner whereupon the Department was directed to release the information sought by the applicant....
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| League Tables and Benchmarking Pupil Attainment by David Watts | 515 Kb | 3690 |
Public Meeting
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| Health Presentation by David Ashford, Minister DHSC - March 2018 | 1615 Kb | 406 |
PAG Event: 2018 Manx Budget explained
Positive Action Group eventThe 2018 Manx budget explainedA presentation by Hon Alf Cannan MHK, Minister for the Treasury |
PAG Event: Cruising Cash Cows?
PAG public meeting Cruising Cash Cows? Perceptions and Misperceptionsa presentation by Dr Ross KleinProfessor, Memorial University of NewfoundlandMonday 27th November 2017 at 7:30 p.m.Manx Legion Club, DouglasThe event is free and open to all
We are now used to seeing small cruise ships moored in Douglas Bay.
The Government is considering a proposal to build a £60 million deep water terminal to receive the latest generation of cruise liners. These vessels hold up to 5000 passengers. On the face of it this would seem to be good for our economy. But there are always two sides to a story. What might the full impact be on the Isle of Man? That's what Positive Action Group (PAG) will debate at its November public meeting. 'The Spider's Web – Britain's Second Empire'
IoM Premiere for new film on offshore Finance industry
'The Spider's Web – Britain's Second Empire'(documentary)Manx Museum Theatre, Kingswood Grove, DouglasMonday 13 November 2017Two screenings: 6.00pm and 7.45pm. |
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I sincerely hope that Members of Tynwald will shortly adopt a New Year's Resolution to the effect that they 'resolve to cease the introduction of major changes to the Income Tax Acts by means of Temporary Taxation Orders.' 
