Performance Related Pay as an ISA

01May12

I’ve just been reading that the government (in the form of the Education Select Committee) is recommending a return to the idea of performance-related pay for teachers. Now, this is interesting, to say the least – and more than a little political. Because, of course we all know how well a bonus-led culture worked in […]

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Tags: Education, Education Select Committee, ISA, Performance-related pay, politics, teaching

Evidence on Behaviour?

23Jun11

And next week, the Commons Select Committe for Catering will be hearing evidence from the latest participants of the TV show “Come Dine With Me.” A year ago the newly appointed schools minister, Nick Gibb, made clear that he did not consider teaching skills to be important for teachers. Politicians clinging to ideology and bias […]

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Tags: DreamSchool, Education, politics, Teacher Support Network, TV

Babies and Bathwater

24Sep10

I’m sure many of us have read about the planned closure of many government quangos (this weird word means a group set up by the government which has some delegated power, see Wikipedia) with delight. The loss of some of the more annoying functions of, for example, the GTCE, is hardly a problem. It is, […]

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Tags: politics, quangos, teaching