Teachers: Are Gove and Cameron listening?

[Beef Oven!]

Not necessarily a development to give him comfort.

It wasn't a comfortable show - Will Self actually 'offered Gove out'! Offered to 'take it outside'!!!

The thought of Gove and Self rolling around on the pavement outside the studio at their age, tearing their clobber!! Lol!








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[An_Inspector_Calls]

So have I.

So you have, endlessly.

[teamsaint]

So you have, endlessly.

well gove gives Alps endless opportunities, to be fair......

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

So you have, endlessly.

...which doesn't stop it from being true.

[MrGongGong]

...which doesn't stop it from being true.

Indeed....... Why do so many folk not really care ?
It makes me weep

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

The thing that I find most alarming is the fact that the opposition is feebly going along with Gove. Last tike round they reintegrated grant maintained school into local control, almost seamlessly. Now they are effectively colluding with the ridiculous divisive free school policy. How spineless the Labour Party has become. :sadface:

[An_Inspector_Calls]

Never mind all that, where did you go for your last strike? Hope you had good weather?

[amateur51]

Never mind all that, where did you go for your last strike? Hope you had good weather?

Are you implacably opposed to the right of workers to strike then Inspector?

[Richard Barrett]

the fact that the opposition is feebly going along with Gove

After some other recent events (Syria and the Daily Mail in particular) I thought there might be a spark of hope that Labour would be beginning to offer some kind of alternative to the Tories by 2015, but no.

[Richard Barrett]

Meanwhile, in the expensive world of higher education, I read in the New Statesman that

In response to calls from Oxford vice-chancellor Andrew Hamilton and others for the tuition fee cap to be raised from £9,000 to up to £16,000 (the annual cost of educating an undergraduate), [Nick Clegg] said: "Don't worry, we're not going to raise tuition fees to £16,000."

Yes, that Nick Clegg, telling us not to worry about university tuition fees.

[MrGongGong]

The thing that I find most alarming is the fact that the opposition is feebly going along with Gove. Last tike round they reintegrated grant maintained school into local control, almost seamlessly. Now they are effectively colluding with the ridiculous divisive free school policy. How spineless the Labour Party has become. :sadface:

Indeed
What a bunch of chickens
So who will get rid of the "free schools" nonsense ?

No one it seems

That's what I call "democracy" , waste of time participating :-(

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

My son met a young teacher at the weekend - someone who actually thought Gove's policies and ideas were good. My son, to his credit, resisted the temptation to hit his opposite number, when the latter said "If the oldies can't take it, they should get out." (Emoticon needed)

My problem is that I fit into that category, and have become institutionalised, having been in educational establishments since October 1954. (Another emoticon needed.) Now that I only work part-time, I feel like an ex-convict who has been released from prison, but feels the need to re-offend in order to go back inside. This is in spite of the fact that I have intermittent orchestration work and a newly begun wedding photography business.

[MrGongGong]

What did you make of this Alpen ?

http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/resources/music-schools-what-hubs-must-do

A bit of a rude title (even to potty mouthed me ;-) ) all that's missing is "or else ?"


I've not read it yet but Jon has some interesting things to say

http://www.jsavage.org.uk/music-education/another-spectacular-failure-ofsted-music-education-deserves-better/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=another-spectacular-failure-ofsted-music-education-deserves-better

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

In my experience, the introduction of whole class/wider opportunities teaching in primary sxhools has been detrimental to music teaching in Key Stage 2. It isn't that there is anything wrong with the teaching, or what is being taught. That's usually very good. But it takes away the confidence of many primary school teachers to do music themselves. If they do, they fall back on the dreaded backing tracks.

[MrGongGong]

In my experience, the introduction of whole class/wider opportunities teaching in primary sxhools has been detrimental to music teaching in Key Stage 2. It isn't that there is anything wrong with the teaching, or what is being taught. That's usually very good. But it takes away the confidence of many primary school teachers to do music themselves. If they do, they fall baxk on the dreaded backing tracks.

It's interesting that many of the folks who have been (justifiably IMV) critical of the "wider ops" thing are enthusiastic supporters of the whole "Sistema" malarkey which uses more or less the same methodology (with some rather iffy bits that we aren't supposed to talk about !) but with much more money.