Over the years I’ve done a fair bit of decorating; a tub of polyfilla, bit of sanding and you’re ready to paper over the cracks. However, when it comes to structural damage and a huge crack up the wall you can’t paper over it and pretend it’s not there. I sense we are hitting the educational equivalent; the cracks are too big to continue papering over. Continue reading
It seems that students and schools might want to brace themselves for a significant down turn in results; that’s how the statistics may be read. This year the number of jumping, smiling, certificate holding straight 9s students may well be between 0-2. Continue reading
Mum didn’t pass her 11+; she attended the local secondary modern school which had no provision for any academic qualifications to be taken. She rues the lack of opportunity afforded her and other young people like her. Continue reading