Thinking back to my teaching days, I suspect that if all my lessons had been in the public domain my career would have been rather short. (View Post)

In reference to the Mail front page it's definitely time for a change of government. Why? Because: Labour has failed to stop the small boats. Labour has failed to curb inflation. Labour has fail… (View Post)

Utterly off topic, but I've just listened to Wasps in a Jam Jar (R4/BBC Sounds). Very highly recommended. I think all political anoraks (that is, you lot) would enjoy it. It's a dramatisati… (View Post)

Of course Ofsted will make errors in the thousands of inspections it does, and I'm not particularly defending them. But in the case of the Reading School and the tragedy surrounding it, the repo… (View Post)

Far be it from me to provide actual evidence on Ofsted, but this is what the report on the school in Reading that led to the tragic suicide actually says on safeguarding: Leaders have a weak understa… (View Post)