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Too many years teaching; Grammar, Comprehensive, Infant, Junior, Primary and Prep School. Teacher, Deputy, Head teacher, Ofsted Inspector, now safely ensconced in classroom, having survived a thousand Government initiatives.

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Policies, Sound Bites and Slogans

Posted 25 July 2011 | 13:51:39 (EST)

I have long laboured under the belief that most government directives or new policies are made up around the dinner party table or at the bar, and then written down on the back of an envelope. Fortunately most of us forget the rubbish we have spouted by the next day,...

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Teachers, Strikers, and the Big Society

Posted 25 July 2011 | 13:04:00 (EST)

Hope I die before I get old?
Are you

  • a) Robbie Williams

  • b) Suffering from a terminal illness and hoping that euthanasia gets legalised in the UK?

  • c) A teacher worried about your pension?

So the opening skirmish has been fought in the government versus...

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