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By Mark Richards, 24 Jan 2020
Following the announcement that Ofsted is to begin asking staff at schools who are being inspected to evaluate their own leadership team in terms of workload, several questions might be asked. For example: Is Ofsted essentially blaming school leaders for workload? What do Ofsted inspectors...
By Mark Richards, 24 Jan 2020
Exams regulator, Ofqual, has published the results of a research project that began in 2015 to look at the differences between grading at GCSEs, AS and A levels. It will come as no surprise to many – especially Modern Foreign Languages – teachers that the news is now official: some GCSEs have...
By Alan Peters, 24 Jan 2020
Other than the odd minor tweak, our education system has sat broadly unchanged since the Victorian era. Yes, there was that experiment with middle schools in the seventies and eighties, some of which continue today. Certainly, the leaving age has steadily crept up as Governments battle to find...
By Ryan Crawley, 24 Jan 2020
Education always seems to take a hit when the government is looking to move tax dollars to a different area to balance its budget. Inevitably, the money that the schools were supposed to be receiving gets drastically reduced, often without warning. This leads to every school district trying to get...
By Alan Peters, 24 Jan 2020
Mrs Moore was a stickler. As head of Infants – a title she insisted on retaining even as names changed (‘Infants: tells the children and their parents their place in the pecking order’ she would maintain) – she really was the most important person at Kingsfield Combined School (OFSTED rating...
By Alan Peters, 24 Jan 2020
Do you remember Jennings? Possibly some kids still read about the terribly posh, awfully naughty Prep school boy. More likely, he lives on through the fans of his 1960s heyday. There is even a Jennings Appreciation Society to stir old memories. Even less plentiful than Jennings books are...
By Ryan Crawley, 24 Jan 2020
There perhaps is no greater essay you will write than the one that gets you into your dream college. In high school classes, you may have been able to scribble out an essay at the last moment and still have your teacher give you a good grade on it. However, college is an entirely different beast....
By Muhammad Dawood and Mark Richards, 24 Jan 2020
Studies vary but regardless of the particular bit of research or report you look at, the general picture you get about the suitability and appropriateness of education in the UK is of a system that is inherently flawed. Of course, there is much to be commended and praised about the general...
By Mark Richards, 24 Jan 2020
For fathers, the situation regarding paternity leave is far more positive now than it ever was in years gone by. Family and how we work as a society, generally, have changed immeasurably over the last few decades. The notion of the mother/housewife who stays at home and looks after the house while...
By Mark Richards, 24 Jan 2020
On one hand, this is the million-dollar question. Anybody working in the teaching profession knows that, regardless of how many blogs you read stuffed full of good and well-meaning advice about the issue, actually getting the work-life balance right as a teacher is much easier said than done. It’s...
