This week, Oxfordshire County Council began consultation on its proposals for restructuring its three Outdoor Education Centres:
Wednesday 27 February 2013
Gove, Wilshaw, Governors and Education
Came across this petition I thought colleagues might like to sign:
Gove Must Go Petition | GoPetition
The damage that has been done to education by this government in its first three years in power, seems set to be compounded by the rest of its term.
Michael Wilshaw's latest attack on governors exposes Gove & co's complete disregard for anyone who genuinely cares about education. Their proposals for reform of governing bodies (opposed by the National Governors' Association) suggest they would be very happy to see parents, teachers and members of the local community completely replaced by paid directors like in any other business.
But the reality is that education is not just any other business. It is about the education of our children. And that process involves the whole community. It means people from within that community, whether parents teachers or others, taking a lead in the running of their schools.
There are inspirational people in schools all over the country doing precisely that, and it is those people Wilshaw is insulting with his ill-informed, ideologically-driven comments today.
Willshaw and Gove have a single agenda, to make our schools more and more like the private businesses they so admire and from which their friends make so much profit.
Our agenda must be different. It must be to develop an education system which supports every young person to achieve the best that they can. And that means working with all those who are passionate about this vision, especially those who give their time voluntarily as governors to achieve it.
Monday 4 February 2013
The War on Teachers Affects Us All
Sunday 03 February 2013
by Gawain Little
This year began with the worrying news of a significant decline in teacher morale. A survey conducted by YouGov reported that 55 per cent of teachers described their morale as "low" or "very low."
The number giving a positive response has almost halved since April last year to 15 per cent.
The reasons for this are not difficult to understand. More than seven in 10 teachers reported that they did not feel trusted by ministers and over three-quarters felt that government policies were having a negative impact on education.
More worryingly for ministers, only 13 per cent of teachers in academies and "free" schools, the coalition's blueprint for the future of education, believe that this government is taking education in the right direction.
And it's no wonder they are sceptical.
The privatisation of the education system through the academy and "free" school initiatives is already causing huge problems.
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