Common sense in the Rose Review

"Finally some sense in primary English teaching", said Derek Clark, UKIP education spokesman. "The forthcoming Rose review calls for children to be taught proper English at last".

The review commissioned by the Department for Children, Schools and Families led by Sir Jim Rose, formerly of Ofsted is published on Thursday.

Mr Clark went on, "It is about time. Fashionable theory has called for all children to be educated purely colloquially. There is nothing wrong with dialect, but not everybody in Devon can understand someone from Newcastle and vice versa."

"It is vital that our children can communicate, that surely is what their education is for. What is astonishing is that only now is a government advisor actually saying what sensible people have known for ever".