The Schools Crisis in Blackburn is one which is merely symbolical of the schools crisis in the areas of other Members of this House.

Will she have inquiries made into the situation in Madeley, as it has already caused a School Crisis in that parish?

It is common knowledge that there is a Crisis in the Schools of Britain at the present time.

We tend to think of America as being ahead of us in the production of technicians and technologists, and that is true, but the Americans have a far worse Crisis in the Schools than we have.

The Committee will be aware that the National Savings movement has already been faced with a Crisis in the Schools, due to other troubles.

There is a Crisis in the School if a teacher is temporarily absent because of illness or domestic trouble.

The very fact that these Reports have been produced has indicated that there was a Crisis in Our Schools and in higher education.

All that is being proposed by Lord Eccles, supported by Cross-Bench, Liberal and other Peers, is that we should allow this exception because we have a mathematical Crisis in Our Schools.

There is a real Crisis in Schools in mathematics, a virtual collapse in mathematics teaching in many primary schools.

Does the Secretary of State recognise that a substantial amount of new money will have to be foundif the current industrial Crisis in Our Schools is to be resolved?

The Crisis in the Schools to which the hon. Gentleman refers is due to the fact that teachers have decided to use this sort of guerrilla action, to the great deterioration of the chances of their pupils, instead of using the machinery that was set up exactly for the purpose of trying to sort out their grievances.

Afterwards there will be a debate entitled "Crisis in Schools".

The Labour party has chosen this subject for debate in Opposition time because there is now a major Crisis in Our Schools, a crisis for which the Secretary of State for Education and Science and the Government are largely responsible.

It may also be worthwhile to broaden the debate away from the immediate Crisis in Our Schools and in teachers' pay to the issue of the collapse of morale in education.

The Labour party invites us to accept the proposition that there is a Crisis in Our Schools, and I think that all of us can readily do that.

It is against that background that we face a Crisis in Schools.

There are similarities between what is happening in Scotland and what is happening in England and Wales over this Crisis in Our Schools.

I invite my right hon. and hon. Friends to join me in the Lobby to condemn this Government's entire education policy against the background of the Crisis in Our Schools.

Sadly, because of the Crisis in Our Schools over the last two years and the arguments about resources for the preparation for the examination, the climate does not exist for there to be confidence in the new examination.

fails to provide the additional resources necessary for the improvement of standards of provision and achievement in education; and, like many previous and current Government proposals, is a totally inadequate response to the Crisis in Our Schools brought about by the Government's policies".

The parliamentary Labour party believes that the Billdoes nothing to widen educational opportunities nor to raise educational standards for all pupils; fails to provide the additional resources necessary for the improvement of standards of provision and achievement in education; and, like many previous and current Government proposals, is a totally inadequate response to the Crisis in Our Schools brought about by the Government's policies.

There is also the Crisis in Our Schools, to which several hon. Members have already referred.

Therefore, the Crisis in the Schools in the 1980s may partially be dealt with by the 1990s, but then there will be a crisis in the colleges and institutes of higher education because of the cutbacks that are being made now.

Headmasters and assistant headmasters in my area write to me daily about the Crisis in Schools in Liverpool.

Faced with that Crisis in Our Schools, with the culpable neglect of school buildings, with the neglect of expenditure on equipment and books, and above all with a gratuitous neglect of the education of our children, what is the Government's response?

Until about seven o'clock there will be a debate entitled "Crisis in Our Schools".

Across the country there is a rising sense of Crisis in Our Schools.

We chose the theme of the Crisis in Our Schools, because there is a crisis, and we know that that theme would find a response throughout the country.

Other features of the Crisis in Our Schools are crumbling school buildings and endless bureaucracy.

The debate is about the Crisis in Our Schools.

Time after time, the Government have been warned that the Crisis in Our Schools is weekly becoming more acute.

The real Crisis in Our Schools would be the one that would occur if Labour Members ever won power.

That is the root cause of the Crisis in Our Schools.

The debate is most timely because there is a basic need to highlight the Crisis in Our Schools brought about as a result of the local authority settlement.

Rising class sizes is both a symptom and a cause of the Crisis in Our Schools.

The result is clearly a Crisis in Our Schools.

That is important, because we have a growing Crisis in Our Schools - a crisis of teacher supply and recruitment.

Does the Minister accept that the problem of teacher shortages is creating a growing Crisis in Our Schools?

The present Crisis in the School was precipitated by the closure of the chapel last summer because of a dwindling congregation.

There is little doubt in the minds of parents that there is a real Crisis in Our Schools, and that it is affecting standards.

It is time that the Government accepted that there is a Crisis in Schools, and realised that the bureaucracy and red tape that they have loaded on to teachers over the past four years is causing teachers to leave the profession.

During the past few months I have spoken to teachers at all levels - from secondary heads to supply teachers - and without exception they have given me the same message: there is a mounting Crisis in Our Schools.

The Crisis in Our Schools is more subtle and quiet.

Perhaps it would have been embarrassing for him, given his response in the House a year ago to concerns about the introduction of the AS-level system and the Crisis in Schools at that time.

When the euphoria over additional money has settled to an air of reality, it will dawn on everyone that this is not reform but a recipe for continued Crisis in Our Schools, colleges and universities.

This is not reform; it is a recipe for continued Crisis in Our Schools.

How much responsibility does he think that Government policy bears for this Crisis in Our Schools?

Like many constituencies represented by my hon. Friends and by Labour Members, we have a Crisis in Our Schools.

It is typical of the Government that while there is a Crisis in Our Schools that teachers and local authorities are working hard to address, they are focused on passing the buck and spin.

Associating this figure with the financial Crisis in Schools is absurd.

We called for this debate because the Crisis in Our Schools is serious and wide-ranging, and the Government were forced into a response this morning in an attempt to provide themselves, prior to the debate, with a fig leaf.

We have record council tax increases, low levels of NHS investment - Suffolk West primary care trust has the lowest per capita funding in the eastern region - and now a Schools Crisis.

The Crisis in Our Schools has been predicted for some time.

Parents and teachers have a right to be cross about the Crisis in Our Schools.

Does the Minister accept that the principal reason for schools wishing to acquire specialist status is the extra £500,000 that that status brings, and that, had it not been for specialist status, the Crisis in Schools funding this year would be significantly less serious?

Maths is an essential prerequisite for engineering, but its teaching is in Crisis in Our Schools, with an ageing workforce and insufficient recruitment to replace those leaving or retiring.

It is important as a strategic subject in its own right, and it is currently in Crisis in Our Schools.

This is the hidden Crisis in Our Schools - in prosperous shires and market towns just as much as the inner cities.

The reasons they cited for their resignations are concerns regarding the council's recommendations to the Minister in early May, and its failure to draw attention to the Education Committee's report, with its strong recommendations on steps to be taken to address the current Crisis in Schools, including the urgent need for enhanced accountability and quality assurance.

He said about his people: “Specifically we must get them houses and put to an end informal settlements; end unemployment, School Crisis, lack of medical facilities.