Enough academies have had problems with head teachers making foolish decisions and finding there is no longer the support of the LEA that they so hastily abandoned. Looking for help from the Secretary of State isn't going to be much use.
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Have you noticed those clones (aka "spokesmen") from the DFE who spout Goveish, attempting to put a positive spin on Academies?Comment
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Anyone but Gove might be worried -for example parents?Comment
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Gove is allowed to get away with his utter drivel because Cameron backs him and Clegg just echoes him. However, Ed Milliband does far too little to challenge the educational suicide being implemented at such relentless speed.Originally posted by DracoM View PostComment
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Gove? Cameron? Miliband? Clegg? Miliclegg? Camerbund? Clove? Glug? - ee an' Drunken Pickles? Come on! - it's not just education that going down the suicidal tubes, is it?! "Relentless speed"? - = flight? - = oh for the wings of a Gove? Boris Airport? HS2? One size Benny Fits all? Never mind all that; since Hector Sants, ex-CEO of ex-FSA has been granted a knighthood, one can only conclude that, if it's good enough for him to be be(k)nighted, it's bad enough for any of the rest of them, surely?...Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostComment
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Yes, very sad.... and as you say a coherent Labour Party response completely invisible....one wonders those how trhe LP can get a soapbox on this. What forum can they use?? It seems they can only vie for column inches whenever Gove releases a new departure.bong chingComment
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Do Millipede et al really want one? According to a BBC 1 news reporter - and they should know! - the Labour Party are not in the slightest bit interested in being on-side with ss benefit recipients, so why should they be overly concerned with educational prospects for so many destined for the unemployment heap?Originally posted by eighthobstruction View PostComment
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Govey wants to bring back A-levels of a bygone era. Whilst being uneasy about the current system, the Tories continue to make the mistake of not talking to, or listening to those who are actually involved in education.
Apart from has-beens like the left-under-a-cloud Chris Woodhead.Comment
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I think there's no alternative but to refuse to go along with their ridiculous ill thought out schemesOriginally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
they don't even send their own children to state schools (which surely should be compulsory given what their jobs are ?)
Bring back Ken RobinsonComment
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A prime example of repeated 'kicking upstairs' to get him away from roles he had shown himself totally inadequate to fulfill, I am advised by some of those who worked along side him during his teaching career. I'm sure we have all come across such folk. I know I have.Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View PostComment
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Yes, but much of Tory education unplan is the result of Woodhead's misguided theories. Free schools for a start.Comment
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back? from America?Originally posted by MrGongGong View PostI 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.Comment
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Peter Wilby in The Guardian skewers The Times' former News Editor ...
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I dipped into that article, ams, out of interest. Taking a paragraph at random, I'd be interested on your take..as follows. My comments in bold.Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
From the 1960s, A-levels were widely recognised as the biggest defect by whom? of English education, giving teenagers the most narrow and specialised curriculum in Europe evidence?.
They required 16-year-olds to opt for sciences or arts: typically maths, physics and chemistry; or English, history and French. True...I was in the science stream but flunked maths which then forced me into the biological sciences. Most others were fine. Only a small minority mixed subjects across the two cultures.
The result was that too many scientists and engineers lacked communication skills evidence? who says?, while too many arts graduates lacked numeracy and scientific literacy. True Equally pernicious, by general consent which general? Guardian readers?, was the rigid status divide between academic and vocational learning.
You see, where I'm coming from is that the Guardian (like most other papers) come out with these sweeping generalisations as if they had been handed down by Moses.
I haven't read through this thread in detail as I have no first-hand experience (as neither being in the education establishment nor having children) of whether the education system in this country is good or bad. All I can go on are to look at external and independent assessors like the OECD. They seem to think that we're not very good in quite a few subjects. I also get the impression is that under the last Government we can all become brain surgeons.Comment
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Successive governments ignore real research which is what frustrates so many people who REALLY know about education
but (as with what folks often say about music education :sadface:)
two anecdotes = data
the other kind of data is on Star Trek
School should NOT be a preparation for work .......... (ask Ken he really DOES know about this stuff )Comment
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