CUCKOO HALL: Suspended, Reinstated, Resigned: An enquiry into Phil Sowter.
If you are new to the Cuckoo Hall story – new readers every day it seems – and want to see previous posts by Janet Downs and myself on Cuckoo Hall have a look here. Or if you just want to remind...
View ArticleAllowing unqualified teachers in schools breaches UNESCO recommendation on...
UNESCO is quite clear: governments should require entrants to the teaching profession to have the ‘required professional knowledge and skills’. It is the responsibility of governments, UNESCO says, to...
View ArticleThe LSN Midsummer Quiz
Five quotations – but who said them? 1 ‘…under the previous Labour Government one in three of our young people were leaving primary school unable to read and write. That is a shocking statistic.’ 2...
View ArticleLSN Midsummer Quiz – an extra question: who blamed the media for putting off...
Who has said, ‘I am going to lay a challenge at the door of the media, because one of the things Vic [head of Passmores Academy) said loud and clear is the way that schooling and education is reported...
View ArticleResearch confirms OECD warning 4 years ago: education in England suffers when...
Schools benefit pupils. And education benefits society. It’s a public as well as a private good. It’s important, therefore, schools are accountable to their stakeholders: governments, the public,...
View ArticleThe Labour leadership and schools
The Labour leadership election seems to either be in full swing, or grinding on, depending on your taste in these matters. The latest opinion polls suggest the result may still be wide open. But will...
View ArticleDfE recruitment ad referred to Advertising Standards
The Department for Education has just launched an advert to encourage teacher recruitment. It shows young teachers being inspirational and describing ways in which teachers make a difference. It ends...
View ArticleWhen will this reckless disdain for the involvement of universities in...
Does the NCTL and DfE really value teacher training and the role played by universities? I think not. Every time I hear platitudes about universities being important in the process I think back to what...
View ArticleThe ‘Politics in Education’ Summit Calls to Action Summary
Firstly, thank you to Janet for her prompt reviews of the Politics in Education Summit. See part one here: and part two here. As soon as the 90 page transcripts came out (they took nearly a week to be...
View ArticleWhy Academies don’t raise standards
Local Schools Network has recently featured a number of articles by Henry Stewart that cast serious doubts on Department for Education claims that Academies perform better than Local Authority...
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