John Dunford
John Dunford
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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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A school's reputation can easily be lost through bad behavior on the buses. There is always a degree of uncertainty about the extent of power outside school and this will clarify that right.
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In the education White Paper, the government is proposing that local authorities consider, as an immediate option, sacking heads of schools that receive a poor inspection report.
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If the judgement had gone the other way, it would have serious consequences for schools and communities that want their children to wear a uniform.
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In too many cases, appeals panels are erratic and their judgements are based wholly on the circumstances of the individual child, without giving enough thought to other pupils and teachers in the school,
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The numbers are in free fall and we're going to lose a generation of linguists.
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The new head comes in with a picture of a healthy, happy school and may therefore be unprepared for the problems that surface when they arrive.
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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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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.
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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.