This title is taken from a Tom Sherrington tweet; just replace “the White Paper” with “Ofsted” to get the original. The White Paper has caused disquiet in quite a few places and a great deal of consternation in others. It lays out the path which ministers, though by no means all of their back benchers, would like to travel in educational terms during this Parliament. Continue reading
Sometimes a word or phrase just sticks; it encapsulates an idea or puts into words what you feel and are trying to say. The phrase “Humane Accountability” did it for me; it articulates how I feel and what I want to say. I think it might have been Laura McInerney or possibly Dr Becky Allen who suggested it; at the time I was trying to herd the cool cats who make up HeadsRoundtable. Read for this “chair the meeting”. Continue reading
Over the past thirty years I’ve sat both sides of the interview table; seven times being interviewed, five times successfully, and literally hundreds of times interviewing people. In reality I’ve interviewed so many people over the years that the “hundreds” is a bit of a guess. Continue reading