It has been revealed in The Guardian that from next year (2008/9) the running of Education will be placed in the hands of locally-appointed councillors, experts and teachers doing away with over 150 years of state control. Explaining the volte-face Ed Balls MP, Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, explained that “the time […]
WE would like to offer our sympathies to all those hard-working teachers who have recently had to endure an observation grilling. As a result WE have put together a list of reasons why observations, at least in their current form, make little sense: 1. They lack objectivity because objectivity is unattainable. The mere selection of […]
Recent lighter-touch inspection regimes have been welcomed by some but we believe such a welcome would have been less warm if the true impact had been known. For it appears that Ofsted inspections have been replaced with institution-led inspections. Whereas in the past we may have expected observations to be in-house and free of inspection […]
Seems even the unions are in on the IfL scam. They are advising members to join asap when they know that staff in Adult Ed are being press-ganged into joining or threatened with the sack if they don’t. Aren’t they supposed to have the interests of their members to look after?
A quick trawl of the web offers these timely reminders: Further education lecturer, Barnet Diana Whelham Salary: £26,780 * Leo Benedictus * Society Guardian, * Thursday March 20 2003 * Article history About this article Close This article was first published on guardian.co.uk on Thursday March 20 2003. It was last updated at 23:43 on […]
We’ve received the following email from the BBC. Anyone interested please contact them using the e-mail address below: “Hi, Sorry to bother you. I work for the BBC’s Today programme and we were wondering if you’d be able to help us. There was a story in the news yesterday (11 March 2008) that some schools […]
Apparently, the IfL fiasco is going from bad to worse. Firstly, FE teaching staff are being served with ultimatums – ‘sign-up or lose your job’. Once signed up, however, full-time lecturers with decades of experience but without the necessary hoops, or those with overseas qualifications, are being told in droves that they are no longer […]
In ‘A chance to help shape our own future. Let’s grasp it’ Chris Thomson, governor of an FE college in Brighton, writes that the FE sector is no longer second-best but central to Government plans and we should be congratulating them. ARE YOU FOR REAL? Have you spoken to ANY teaching staff recently? Another example […]
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