Education

	We see education as our chance to make a lasting impression on young people, using proven teaching techniques in favour of trendy experimental trials.
We will introduce a zero tolerance approach to classroom violence and truancy, and place more emphasis on drugs awareness, alcohol abuse, sex education, crime and simple good manners.
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Our Policies 1. Give education back to the educators. First and foremost we will again need to cut the immense amount of red tape and centralised bureaucratic control, which demoralises teachers and prevents them from doing their job. Decentralisation will be the key in these reforms, with less government control in the form of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, and more autonomy to state schools to allow teachers freedom over how to teach and what they want to cover outside the curriculum. We will listen to teachers, parents and education experts and support their proposals to reintroduce effective phonic based learning for youngsters, in favour of less effective modern experimental techniques. Too many young people are leaving school without even basic standards of literacy and numeracy, and this has to end.
2. Good healthy competition. We will scrap pointless league tables and ridiculous performance targets, and greatly improve the standards of examinations, which have been degraded to maintain the pretence that education is working well under the current government. We will encourage schools to specialise in technical or academic disciplines and allow limited selection of pupils.
3. Funding the future. Our government is aiming for still greater numbers of students in universities, but it is not providing enough funding even for the current numbers. Even after subsidising British students from the high fees charged to all the students from non-EU countries, our universities are still having to impose top-up fees in order to run their undergraduate courses. We will extend the high charges imposed on non-EU students to any non-British students, which will allow us to further subsidise and support British University students.
4. Giving youngsters values. We believe that the values we give our youngsters at school and at home, are the grass roots of manners, respect and good behaviour. We will introduce a pupil timetable which invests more time Sociology, where important issues such as drugs awareness, alcohol abuse, sex education and crime will be discussed. Furthermore we intend to promote healthy balanced meal options in all schools, and encourage regular exercise and sports as part of our initiative to educate pupils about healthy living. Junk food will not be banned in schools but we will ensure that they do not provide it to pupils. This will allow parents the choice to send their children with such foods if they wish to do so.
5. Restoring respect and discipline. We believe in a zero tolerance approach to classroom violence and disruption, and will provide full authority to teaching staff to carry out on the spot searches on pupils. This will however be subject to completion of a professional course which will train members of staff on how to carry out searches and emergency methods of restraint. Any pupil found guilty of carrying an offensive weapon or assaulting another pupil and/or teacher, will automatically be excluded and face criminal prosecution. And by ripping up the ridiculous Human Rights Act we will not be forced to return this pupils to classes. We will make it mandatory for teaching staff to report any such incidents, and the minimum recommended sentence will be a period in a Young Offenders Institute, followed by reintegration into education via Boot Camp. We will create dozens of these specialised Boot Camps nationwide for excluded pupils, following their high level of success in reforming troubled youngsters. We will leave the decision to exclude other unruly pupils to the head teacher without allowing governors, parents or bureaucrats to compromise this authority. We will not tolerate truancy, with harsher sentencing on offenders and parent/guardians who have found to have contributed to the offence. Persistent offenders will be excluded from mainstream education and transferred to a Boot Camp. Parents would face a prison sentence.