Singing in the rain, whistling in the wind

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Singing in the rain, whistling in the wind

• EMFEC Annual Conference. Nov 2009

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Changing political winds

• Key Papers
• Labour 21st c schools. New Industry, New Jobs
• Tory Sykes. Get Britain Working
• Key speeches
• Lab Mandelsons Progress speech. Browns TUC
  speech
• Tory Camerons quango speech. Goves
  conference speech
• Key words
• Progressive, tough, standards, rigour, choice,
  parents, local, employers, academy,
  apprenticeships, Sweden, technical, fight
• Key influencers
• Lab IPPR, Demos, Purnell, Miliband, New
  Statesman but not Blair
• Tory Reform, CPS, CSJ, Blair, Barnet/Kent, Tory
  grandees, The Sun
• Key countries
• Canada, Australia, Holland, Sweden, America
• Key celebs
• Labour Sir Alex
• Tory Carol Vordeman

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Gloomy economic climate

• Key Papers
• Back to Black, How to save 50bn, A Recovery
  Plan for the UK, Skills, Jobs, Growth
• Key speeches
• Labour Darlings Sept 09 Cardiff speech. Browns
  09 Conference speech
• Tory Osbornes June 09 A New British Economic
  Model speech and Conference 09 speech
• Key words
• Austerity, priority, responsibility, tough,
  investment, quango, bureaucracy, incontinence,
  any word that makes cuts sound kinder
• Key figures
• 946,000
• 0.4
• 175bn
• 19bn
• 9bn
• 30
• 171
• 100?