John Dunford
John Dunford
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Dyslexia may or may not be the correct name for the problem but there are undoubtedly many thousands of children and adults whose education has suffered as a result of their difficulty with word recognition.
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The role of heads and principals has changed enormously in the last decade, and it will continue to evolve as schools and colleges receive more autonomy, extended schools come into being and collaboration becomes more necessary,
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There must be a strong suspicion that this is a ruse to increase the number of schools that can be turned into academies, so that the Prime Minister's target of 200 academies can be met.
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This is very far from the Prime Minister's vision of schools being more independent from local authorities.
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The numbers are in free fall and we're going to lose a generation of linguists.
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They are having to spend far too much time on form-filling, bidding for different pots of money, responding to centrally-driven target-setting regimes instead of being given enough freedom and flexibility to be able to move their own school in the direction it needs to go.
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This is not a case of novice heads or those with a poor track record and poor management skills being called to task. These are experienced heads,
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Pupils will continue to eat unhealthy packed lunches and visit the local chip shop,
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The less-academically able are giving up languages but they too could have some use for it in the workplace later on.
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The freedoms being offered in the white paper are largely an illusion. What schools need is more freedom from government interference and incessant education reform.