I am not becoming a Russian even for a five year visa.

To quote Goan Voice:
AndyD 8-)#

The problem is Andy, the bl@@dy russians seem to be able to get these business visas dead easy, almost as easy as we get tourist ones......


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Thats because Russia supplies India with advanced armaments and war planes. The Bramos Cruise missile is a good example of the co-operation between them.

There is also another connection between Russia and India.Corruption on a vast scale.Its institutionalized in both countries and both are described Kleptocratic.

Druglord Atala may expose many bigwigs in Goa

31 Aug: Rediff. Yaniv Benaim alias Atala was finally extradited from Peru and his interrogation is on at the moment …. CBI sources say that at the moment Atala has not revealed much… He is the big link between the Russian, Nigerian and Israeli mafia which controls the drug trade in Goa based at Calangute, Baga, Anjuna, Colva and the Arpora areas. He has been into this racket for the past 20 years
www.goanvoice.org.uk

The Israelis have a deal with the Indian Government to repatriate prisoners back to The Promised Land to do their sentences.He will only be in a couple of years if that.But i think he still faces charges in Israel for drug offences though, so he might end up doing real time there.The Israelis are heavily involved in supplying armaments to India too. At the moment they are providing Remote Controlled Surveillance Drones to the Indian Army to counter the Naxalite menace in the jungles.

At last! Teacher is back in charge: Tories pledge to end classroom chaos and the obsession with pupils' rights

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discipline never hurt us - remember the ruler etc.

Maybe they need to discipline the teachers first for producing pupils that cannot read and to all practical purposes are illiterate at school leaving age. According to yesterdays London Evening Standard job seekers at Stratfords Westfield Shopping Centre, the show place for the Olympics, had to be coached to fill in application forms because the Australian owner said the majority who turned up where functionally illiterate and couldn't understand how to fill out the application forms.Dumb Britain at its best.I can use a Blackberry but not a dictionary.........

English is not a first language for many of these British youths, an average classroom is multilingual with barely rudimentary understanding of the English language.

Rap music lyrics are often used as teaching tools since this seems to be the only common denominator of understanding. Hence, the police are referred to as "Feds", bruv. Righteous. Riotus?

Teachers are supposed to raise the level of understanding not bring it down to the lowest common denominator. No wonder so many of the young of today are illiterate when they leave school. Perhaps the first requirement for children starting school in the UK is to learn English and they should not go on to other subjects until they can speak and write english to a reasonable standard, or at least as well as my three year old grandaughter, otherwise how do they understand the other subjects.

In the multicutural educational environment in the UK that has been invited and accelerated by various governments, teachers are under enormous pressure not only to maintain order in the classroom but also to be understood by children who return home everyday to speak the mother tongue of their family i.e. not English, at best a patois.

I agree with your sentiments regards the role of teachers and the fundamental importance of understanding English in order to be taught other subjects while in a British school.

As an adjunct, the notion of 'faith schools' should be abolished, not encouraged as Tony Blair set out and Cameron seems to be on a similar tack.

Education is education, and there should be no place for any religious teaching or observance within the curriculum other than as a broadly informative historical overview of human superstition within a philisophical and social anthropological context.

If there should be no religious teaching then there should be no politics either and politics have played a large part the ruination of education.

I don't in honesty think you can blame the teachers. My daughter in law has just finished working at an inner london school; the first language was not english, they employed two full time security staff, had panic alarms fitted in every class room and this in a primary school! The answer to it? Frankly I have no idea! The only solution we have come up with is send the (grand) kids to private school.

I think it depends very much on the address and social area of the school. Our grandson has just started at a lovely state primary school and it is in a city with high percentage of ethnic minority origin people. His parents are very pleased.
We ourselves live next to a low income area and decades ago when his father started at a state primary ( he was the only child in his class that was not of completely British origin) it was awful, a new supply teacher every term, he was not taught anything. So yes private school was the only answer and his younger siblings went straight there.
Problem nowadays fees have rocketed.
I think Diane Abbott (Hackney, Labour) famously sent her son to private school.