VoteClimate: Education, Training and Skills - 13th January 2010

Education, Training and Skills - 13th January 2010

Here are the climate-related sections of speeches by MPs during the Commons debate Education, Training and Skills.

Full text: https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2010-01-13/debates/10011359000001/EducationTrainingAndSkills

14:15 Stephen Williams (Bristol, West) (LD)

In the long term, we need to develop a low-carbon economy in which people also have digital skills. Another Liberal Democrat policy that does not receive much attention from the other parties involves the offer of bursaries to enable people to study stem subjects at university. That is important, as is the advice given to children at school on the opportunities that are open to them, so that they know that a career in engineering is not only worth while in itself but an important contributor to the finding of solutions to the challenge of climate change.

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15:12 David T.C. Davies (Monmouth) (Con)

We need to go back to the basics in schools and get rid of all this politically correct stuff, with people sitting around their desks chatting to each other. What is wrong with people learning by rote, in rows, one behind the other? What happened to the three R’s in schools—reading, writing and arithmetic? They have been replaced by the three C’s—cultural studies, climate change and, for five-year-olds in primary school now, carnal knowledge. That is absolutely disgraceful.

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