Does your child’s school have a vacancy for an incompetent teacher?
Yazan: Sara | 11 July 2010 | 2 Comments
Categories: education
So the outgoing Chair of Ofsted thinks that ‘one good thing about primary school is that every kid learns how to deal with a really s*** teacher’? Oh great! Zenna Atkins told The Sunday Times that ‘every school should have a useless teacher’, believing that learning to cope with incompetent people was a good lesson [...]
Now will you leave our children in peace?
Yazan: Sara | 06 January 2010 | No Comments
Categories: children, education
At the end of last year, I blogged on the stupidity of pushing literacy on children at ever-younger ages, often before they are ready for it. Today, a report from a leading New Zealand university shows that early reading makes no difference to the reading age of children at the age of 11. The author [...]
School! Huh! What is it good for?
Yazan: sarabedford | 11 February 2009 | No Comments
Categories: education
Following this week’s strikingly similar announcements by both Nick Clegg and David Cameron on their respective party’s education policy, debate seems to have taken off amongst LibDem activists. The main point of argument seems to be around the provision of ‘free’ schools on the successful Swedish model. Nick Clegg has long been a fan of [...]
