Professor Tim Oates described the English Education System as “Good but stuck”, I’d now suggest it is “Good but stuck and increasingly fragile.” Reacting to a pretty full White Paper, Educational Excellence Everywhere (who could possibly disagree), on day one has certain down sides; on reflection some ideas which appear rather poor improve with age and vice versa. Continue reading
This is another one of my Mastermind posts; I’ve started (a few weeks ago) so I’ll finish despite the fact that Andrew Morrish has already made a great early move to become the next of Chief Inspector of Schools with his article, Advice for the next Ofsted chief: it’s time to scrap your job. Continue reading
At the start of the week I was asked to present to a group of people from the Diocese the changes at A-levels and GCSE. The A-level changes whilst having massive implications for workload, being brought in at the same time as significant GCSEs for some inexplicable reason, are relatively easy to understand. However, the numerous changes at GCSE are of a totally different order in terms of understanding and implementation; not helped by delays in publishing syllabi. Continue reading