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• 13Oct2010

  Continuing the conversation from the party conference events

  Posted by George Dugdale

  The National Literacy Trust held fringe events at all three of the main parties’ conferences this autumn. All three events brought up a range of interesting discussion points.

  Notable comments included Lord Tope saying that public libraries should not be immune to cuts, Lord Knight saying the Labour party made mistakes by pushing schools too hard and taking some of the fun out of education. And, of course, Schools Minister Nick Gibb saying that “every school should have a library” and inviting people to lobby him on the issue.

  Summaries of the debates can be found on the National Literacy Trust website (links below), and we would like to continue the discussion here on this blog

  • What do you think of the Minister’s comments about school libraries, or Lord Tope’s pronouncements on public libraries?
  • Has some of the fun been taken out of education?
  • Were there other issues that caught your eye? Cultural literacy perhaps? Or the rise of digital literacy?

  If you were at any of the events and had a comment to make which you didn’t get a chance to make, or if you missed the events and would like to comment on the discussion now, please leave your comments below.

  Summary of the Liberal Democrat event

  Summary of the Labour Party event

  Summary of the Conservative Party event

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