John Dunford
John Dunford
direction far freedom given instead move needs pots regimes responding school spend time
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.
appeals based circumstance erratic giving individual judgements pupils teachers wholly
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,
group hit lessons shortage teacher teachers
When the teacher shortage was at its worst, unqualified teachers were allocated most often to lessons for 11 to 14-year-olds and so this age group was hit disproportionately hard.