Originally posted by BetweenTheStaves
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Is Michael Gove as dangerous as he sounds?
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Originally posted by BetweenTheStaves View PostAh but he's starting from a firm foundation of havoc and mayhem created by the last Labour Govt..so he can hardly make things any worse.
Perhaps the only mistake they made was to allow Chris Woodhead to continue for as long as he did, after being discredited. But they remedied this eventually.
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Yeah but check this fine example out
BECTA home page
One of his first acts was to 'close down' BECTA - but as the latter half of the front page shows, the reality is that this may have happened in name, but in deed all that has happened is that the pesky BECTA posse have slide off to appear under other's auspices (and took their budget with them).
Combine this with the BSF 'bull in a china shop' approach and the comment on young Gove's first terms report has to be:
Must pay more attention to detail.
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What the last Government DID do (and I'm no fan of either party !) was improve PRIMARY school education in the most difficult schools enormously. The schools which previously one would be very wary of working on have had massive improvements. This isn't really true of many secondary schools
but most people involved in education know that the simple (but not cheap !) policy of reducing class sizes would have great benefits......
All of the current Government probably spent their secondary school career in groups of 14 (or there abouts !) rather than groups of 30. It doesn't take a genius to work out that they will have had nearly TWICE as much input as those in groups of 30. Its not a hard thing to work out really.
but what do Cameron and friends know of this ? (or the rest of them , for that matter........ nothing to do with the supposed differences between parties !)
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Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
What the last Government DID do (and I'm no fan of either party !) was improve PRIMARY school education in the most difficult schools enormously. The schools which previously one would be very wary of working on have had massive improvements. This isn't really true of many secondary schools
but most people involved in education know that the simple (but not cheap !) policy of reducing class sizes would have great benefits......
All of the current Government probably spent their secondary school career in groups of 14 (or there abouts !) rather than groups of 30. It doesn't take a genius to work out that they will have had nearly TWICE as much input as those in groups of 30. Its not a hard thing to work out really.
but what do Cameron and friends know of this ? (or the rest of them , for that matter........ nothing to do with the supposed differences between parties !)
And just to help things a bit, they have ofsted going round telling everyone that its the quality of the teaching that matters...not the size of the class.
This makes me wonder why private schools waste so much money on getting small class sizes !!
its all very sad.I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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The Olympics has proved to be a useful tool bury bad news - to cover up Michael Gove's ineptitude. He has announced that "Academies" can now appoint unqualified teachers:
"...so more schools can hire great linguists, computer scientists, engineers and other specialists who have not worked in state schools before."
One hopes that hospital surgeons will not be replaced by "great biologists, great seamstresses and great abbatoir workers".
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Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
One hopes that hospital surgeons will not be replaced by "great biologists, great seamstresses and great abbatoir workers".
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Originally posted by Serial_Apologist View PostOoh I dunno - the last two categories could be quite useful. After all, I wouldn't want my brains to fall out having had an operation on them that wasn't stitched up properly; but, if that did happen, at least there'd be someone qualified on hand to mop them up.
As a student I had the privilege of attending several post mortems undertaken by the wonderfully theatrical Prof Keith Simpson who always wore a bowler hat whilst doing the carving.
Rumour had it that when asked why he wore his hat whilst working he replied "Well the bodies are kept refridgerated & it is rather cold" at which point he removed his bowler to revealed a perfectly bald head
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Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostEr... yes.
But what I cannot understand why an Oxygen Bandit can make a decision like this without parliamentary approval.
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