Monthly Archives: June 2011
Gove adds fuel to the fire
Whatever your view of this Thursday’s strike action, you would think this would be a time for cool heads. A tense situation needs careful handling yet, in piles the Education Secretary, urging parents to break the strike and take the … Continue reading
Filed under Michael Gove, Politics - general, Schools
Stuart Baggs, The Apprentice and a Headteacher coming to a school near you…
For many years, the path to Headship has followed a predictable route: from class teacher, to head of year, to Assistant or Deputy, and then, after a suitable time has passed in each role, and the appropriate experience has been … Continue reading
The devil is in the detail for Archbishop Williams
There’s nothing like a political bun-fight and they are made all the more interesting when the main combatant – in this case, Archbishop Rowan Williams – is able to call on a higher power to damn not only the Government, … Continue reading
Filed under Politics - general
How to spend the Pupil Premium. Maybe.
In a time where schools policy seems to swing wildly from one extreme (think wholesale structural reforms like free schools and Academies) to political interference in the minutiae of how children should be taught to read (think synthetic phonics) praise … Continue reading
Filed under Policy, Politics - general, Schools
