Monthly Archives: March 2011
New improved EMA is not something for Lib-Dems to celebrate
It doesn’t take a master strategist to figure out what’s happening. The Lib Dems are taking a pasting for being too cosy with the Tories. So every now and again the boys in blue cut them a bit of slack … Continue reading
Filed under Funding, Lib Dems, Policy, Politics - general
Animal Farm and Brave New World should be on Gove’s reading list
There is something particularly odd about Michael Gove’s remark that children should be reading 50 books a year. It’s not that he says this in the midst of a spending round so austere that libraries are being closed (one presumes … Continue reading
Filed under Conservatives, Michael Gove, Nick Gibb, Policy, Politics - general, Uncategorized
(My) final word on Birbalsingh
I haven’t had much time to blog, but did write a review of ‘To Miss with Love’ by Katharine Birbalsingh for the Local Schools Network. You can read it here: http://www.localschoolsnetwork.org.uk/2011/03/to-miss-with-love-misses-the-mark/
Filed under Politics - general, Schools
Will Teaching Schools improve teacher quality?
One of the more interesting features of Michael Gove’s recent White Paper, ‘The Importance of Teaching’, was the audaciousness of the title; you would think it contains a hat full of well-considered plans to make teachers considerably better at their … Continue reading
Filed under Policy, Schools, Uncategorized
