I was speaking to a bloke in the pub today who said that another bloke in the pub had told him that he didn't have a clue when the election would be. (View Post)

Personally I think the current Ofsted framework is unbalanced. Too much emphasis on the curriculum stuff and not enough on students' outcomes and the quality of teaching, which were the main foc… (View Post)

On Ofsted. I know an awful lot about Ofsted, for reasons I'm not going to disclose. And I'm not going to quibble with the excellent header, although I would dispute a few elements of it. Ho… (View Post)

Er, it was a joke. Obviously. (View Post)

As a society, we have become less tolerant of resolving differences through fighting. Back in the 70/80s when I was in Leeds, I rarely had a night out without witnessing a punch-up. In the last 20 ye… (View Post)