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Too many initiatives not enough teaching | Harriet Sergeant

Harriet Sergeant's controversial report, launched today, argues that schools are failing because teachers spend too much time fulfilling government iniatives instead of teaching I have spent the last year investigating education. I have interviewed Ofsted inspectors, teachers, pupils and parents and visited schools. I did not intend to write about education. I was actually trying to...

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The Times gets it right

This article is spot on. So much so, that I've taken the liberty to reprint it right here. From The Sunday Times November 29, 2009 Ofsted’s hidden cult of failure A whistleblower tells how her fellow inspectors fret more over pupils’ lunch boxes than their literacy Harriet Sergeant One day last summer I found myself sharing a table with three seven-year-olds in an inner-city...