BBC NEWS | Education | 'No fines for term-time holidays'

BBC NEWS | Education | 'No fines for term-time holidays' My daughter has just returned from Africa with her mum. The week away from school was accepted by the school, and was not a problem for them. But it seems that it is a problem for this ever more authoritarian Government. Does the new education secretary really think R will have learned more in school than by exploring the south African outback. can the newly designated Arts School offer her South African Native Dancing? Travel broadens the mind. Blair's Government seems to want to stunt its development. I wish we all could have been in Africa this week.