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 [...]
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 [...]
Great response to a BBC News article about what makes a good teacher. The following response is indicative of the rest: “I would have thought that it was quite obvious what makes a good teacher in this day and age. The ability to cope with enormous amounts of administrative paper-work including individual lesson plans for [...]
EducationState doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry about Ed Balls-Up’s new money-wasting, bureaucratic-ridden, job-for-the-boys initiative described below: “Over 2,000 teachers and trainers have registered as members of the Institute for Learning (IfL) since its new website and online registration facility went live on Saturday 1 September 2007, increasing the professional body’s membership to nearly [...]
It has been brought to our attention that following the lead of Harlow College, Barnet College in North London are also hoping to get one over their employees. It appears that relationships between senior managers and those lower down the managerial food chain have reached an all-time low. In “College staff ‘bullied’ into new contracts” [...]
We at EducationState have started the new academic year with all the enthusiasm of the last but still face one wrongly-held belief after another. Take Literacy. Why can’t the powers that be understand that in today’s economy higher-level paper-based skills are not as crucial in the world of work as keyboard-based ones? Clearly, a well-structured [...]
Recent events have shown that despite ‘increased’ funding in FE, the sector still remains the most fraught. Staff at Harlow College are currently embroiled in a long-running and bitter feud with the College’s principal regarding revised working conditions and pay. This has led to half of them taking redundancy. Blame has been apportioned but as [...]
The LSC response to the proposals to make education up to the age of 18 in the UK compulsory provided interesting reading. Strangely, it supports the implementation of compulsion but states at the same time that currently 99 out of 100 16 – 18 year olds are in some form of education, training or employment. [...]
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