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HindleA wrote:Damn,the meter is reading £500 an hour,better switch off.

PorFavor wrote:

HindleA wrote:Damn,the meter is reading £500 an hour,better switch off.

I resent the implication that we're not worth every penny.

HindleA wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-39226133



Surrey County Council 'sweetheart deal' row escalates



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After years of attacks on "so-called progressive" university teacher-training departments a senior official says DfE is now adopting a "pragmatic" approach
The Department for Education has ended its "focus" on school-led initial teacher-training in favour of a "pragmatic" approach that embraces university led courses, according to a senior official.

The new approach marks a major change in tone and follows years of attacks from Conservative education ministers on "so called progressive" university education departments that they have described as "The Blob" and accused of peddling outdated orthodoxy.

Now the DfE’s head of teacher supply, Ben Ramm, has said he wants to rebut the suggestion that the department focused exclusively on school-led teacher training.

“I think that was a narrative that was true for a number of years,” he said at a Westminster Education conference in London last week.

“I think that we have seen significant changes in the department over the last year or so.

“We now have an approach that I would describe as pragmatic rather than focused on any specific structural preference for school-led or university led-ITT.

An education charity has become the first academy sponsor to give up all its state-funded schools after concerns that standards were unacceptably poor and its financial position was “unsustainable”.

The Education Fellowship Trust, which ran 12 schools with 6,500 pupils in Northamptonshire, Wiltshire and Maidenhead, is the largest academy chain to be in effect dissolved because of poor performance.

Five of its schools are rated inadequate by Ofsted and another three have been deemed to require improvement, with only four rated good by inspectors.

HindleA wrote:Excuse ignorance,what happens to the pupils/staff/buildings or is it just lose Academy status.How is funding,running them now change?

An academy trust has been ordered to close a linked commercial company and “closely monitor” its finances following an investigation by the Education Funding Agency, its second in the space of three years.

The Education Fellowship Trust has been warned that its current organisational model is “not acceptable” and does not confirm to model articles of association for multi-academy trusts or provide assurance that resources were managed “in an effective and proper manner”.

It follows an earlier investigation of the trust by the EFA in 2014, which highlighted concerns over governors’ expenses of £45,000, a fact-finding trip to New York and unadvertised jobs that went to family members. A financial notice to improve issued to the trust at the time was lifted last April, but the organisation is now subject to a new notice following the latest probe.

So when it came to her own election Osamor says “so many people were rooting for me”.

“So many people wanted me to do well. It meant a lot to them because they knew on one level the representation for black women in parliament is almost zero. Diane Abbott was on her own for a long time. Dawn Butler came in and then she lost her seat and she had to fight to get back in. Dawn’s journey was hard,” she says.

“They are two really great sisters, I’ve got a lot of time for them, I am always there for them and they are there for me. Its 100%. There are three of us.

“It’s not fair. It’s not enough. It means you’ve always got to get on. You can’t fall out,” she laughs, before quickly becoming serious.”It’s just the three of us. It’s wrong. It shouldn’t be like that. It should be multi-faith, multi-coloured.

There is one area where Osamor is more open to the idea of parachuting in candidates - when it comes to increasing the number of BAME MPs. White people, she argues, will vote for a non-white candidate - but they need to be given the opportunity to do so.

The party has recognised it has a problem with a lack of non-white MPs, Osamor says. But recognising the problem is not the same as fixing it. The key, she argues, is forcing change on local parties – the people who choose the candidates. “We have to say to selection panels: ‘Your panel needs to look a certain way’. And if they say: ‘There is no other person in the constituency, everyone is white’, then we send someone from the NEC, or wherever it is, who doesn’t look like them.

“Because if the panel doesn’t look like what you are trying to find, you keep getting that problem.”

TES‏Verified account @tes 4m4 minutes ago
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Justine Greening asked q about grammars. Answers and murmur of disquiet/some heckles from floor #ascl2017

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Headteachers jeering @JustineGreening during her defence of grammar schools #ascl2017

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Great question on how evidence fits with extension of selection: SoS can't give adequate response, using flawed choice argument #ascl2017

StephenDolan wrote:Is it cynical to wonder about the sudden referencing of the police, Rahman and electoral fraud by the BBC?

pk1 wrote:@yahyah Thanks for posting y/day - was worried ! Sounds like you have your hands full - hope things improve very soon for you both.

@Paul Good to read your posts & I agree with Tubby - post here ! I also agree with you though that the aggression on display at times is off-putting. We should be able to disagree without getting personal & abusive towards one another. I hope you'll continue to post here - after all, you were one of the original founders of the place & it's not right that you've been made to feel uncomfortable in your own home, so to speak.

@AngryAsWell Again, glad to see your post. Please, don't be pushed out - come back !

StephenDolan wrote:Is it cynical to wonder about the sudden referencing of the police, Rahman and electoral fraud by the BBC?

Two Conservative activists have accused the party of “telling lies” over allegations it broke election laws in a number of key seats in the lead-up the 2015 General Election.

HindleA wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... ng-problem



Forget Brexit: housing is the key issue for Labour
Phil McDuff

Food writer and campaigner wins £24,000 from Mail Online columnist in row over tweets about damage to war memorial

AnatolyKasparov wrote:Yet again, JFK's "we do not choose to do these things because they are easy, but because they are hard" comes to mind.

adam wrote:Jack Monroe wins twitter libel case against Katie Hopkins

Food writer and campaigner wins £24,000 from Mail Online columnist in row over tweets about damage to war memorial

ETA the full judgement is here.

adam wrote:Galloway said to be considering standing in Manchester Gorton by-election.

Story here.

pk1 wrote:

adam wrote:Jack Monroe wins twitter libel case against Katie Hopkins

Food writer and campaigner wins £24,000 from Mail Online columnist in row over tweets about damage to war memorial

ETA the full judgement is here.

Such good news

This case should finally caution people to keep within the law even on twitter and/or facebook.

RogerOThornhill wrote:Oops.

First academy trust to lose its schools over poor standards


http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/first ... -rz67nqpf0

An education charity has become the first academy sponsor to give up all its state-funded schools after concerns that standards were unacceptably poor and its financial position was “unsustainable”.

The Education Fellowship Trust, which ran 12 schools with 6,500 pupils in Northamptonshire, Wiltshire and Maidenhead, is the largest academy chain to be in effect dissolved because of poor performance.

Five of its schools are rated inadequate by Ofsted and another three have been deemed to require improvement, with only four rated good by inspectors.

All 12 schools taken on inside a period of 12 months in 2012-3.

adam wrote:Galloway said to be considering standing in Manchester Gorton by-election.

Story here.

pk1 wrote:@yahyah Thanks for posting y/day - was worried ! Sounds like you have your hands full - hope things improve very soon for you both.

@Paul Good to read your posts & I agree with Tubby - post here ! I also agree with you though that the aggression on display at times is off-putting. We should be able to disagree without getting personal & abusive towards one another. I hope you'll continue to post here - after all, you were one of the original founders of the place & it's not right that you've been made to feel uncomfortable in your own home, so to speak.

@AngryAsWell Again, glad to see your post. Please, don't be pushed out - come back !

adam wrote:Jack Monroe wins twitter libel case against Katie Hopkins

Food writer and campaigner wins £24,000 from Mail Online columnist in row over tweets about damage to war memorial

ETA the full judgement is here.

@MarksLarks
Judge has order @KTHopkins to pay £107k on account of costs + the £24,000 damages

Ian Hyland‏ @HylandIan 20m20 minutes ago
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If Katie Hopkins really does say "what everyone is thinking" then my guess is she is currently saying "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"