Education round-up 19 Feb 2012 Equality in schools apparently not important to Gove. More on forced academy conversions. Next teacher strike date.
Classroom recomposition: Agencies, OFSTED, and academies A short blog entry looking at the plight of a particular group of agency workers in a prominent…
What happened in Brighton? - N24 student walkout The following aims to provide some basic materials for people who were involved or interested in the events of N24 (during the student movement…
Adventures in the sausage factory: a cursory overview of UK university struggles, November 2010 – July 2011 Nearly a year after the attenuation of a wave of further and higher education…
Education round-up 5 Feb 2012 Academies failing and massaging results. Gove thinks everyone is a 'Trot'. Scientists boycott publishing racket.
Academies underperforming New data suggests that academies are underperforming by the governments own yardsticks, regardless of context. So if they're not 'improving'…
Education round-up 29/1/12 Gove and the illusion of dialogue. Montgomery school still fighting academy status.
Against school - John Taylor Gatto A 2003 article by John Taylor Gatto, a retired school teacher, on the US education system, its history and reasons for being. We disagree with…
Statistics statistics statistics As the title suggests, the role of statistics in school policy towards teachers and students is becoming ever more prominent. Of course schools…
Downhills Save Our School song Parents, workers and pupils at Downhills Primary School have recorded a song by the pupils and supporters in opposition to attempts to force them…
Education round-up 14/1/12 Gove wants to make sacking teachers easier. No-notice inspections by Ofsted. Downhills struggle continues.
Sponsored academies in the UK video A short video summarising some of the issues relating to the academies programme.
