Manifestos – Labour and Conservatives
“Leave out Clause 10″ – the end of Primary Curriculum Reform
Manifestos have now been published by both the Conservative and Labour parties to much fanfare (?!?).
Here are two summary documents focusing on the Education Policies outlined. What is clear is that there is a lot that is the same but some fundamental differences, especially around Primary Education.
As many have mentioned before, its probably a good time to keep politics out of education.
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As predicted in a previous blog, the wash-up has done for Primary Curriculum Reform as well as sex education, pupil-parent guarantees and the requirement for Local Authorities to provide more information to parents about schools.
Remaining are support for SEN schools and parents as well as the mechanism for moving forward with federated schools and changes to the Local Safeguarding Childrens Boards.
The text of Clause 10 from the CSF Bill 2010
Now, Primary Curriculum Reform has not been done on a whim. A wide-ranging review of the Primary Curriculum was undertaken by Jim Rose while a parallel review was delivered by Professor Robin Alexander at Cambridge University over 2 years. Each review considered teachers’, pupils’ and parents’ views as well as those of employers and universities. All this sacrificed by politicians (of all colours) within 4 words. Hmmm.
While it is widely agreed that transport must have cross-party support because it is an on-going ‘major infrastructure’ project, there is no such consensus for Education which I think is a real shame. Teachers have been thinking about, planning and preparing for the new curriculum – using the (no doubt expensive to produce) New Primary Curriculum website and now this all is in abeyance until after the election when politicians, teachers and children will have to ‘think again’.
Education has long been a political football which politicians (and not many of them teachers) use to get votes and power. This leaves those at the sharp end wondering what they are going to teach and when and can cause large disconnects in the actual learning of children going from Primary to Secondary schools.
I would like Gove, Balls and Laws to consider a new consensus politics around education that actually sought teachers and parents views as part of an on-going dialogue about the development and implementation of education policy in the UK. This won’t happen but it might be nice to be asked.
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As predicted in a previous blog, the wash-up has done for Primary Curriculum Reform as well as sex education, pupil-parent guarantees and the requirement for Local Authorities to provide more information to parents about schools.
Remaining are support for SEN schools and parents as well as the mechanism for moving forward with federated schools and changes [...]
Manifestos have now been published by both the Conservative and Labour parties to much fanfare (?!?).
Here are two summary documents focusing on the Education Policies outlined. What is clear is that there is a lot that is the same but some fundamental differences, especially around Primary Education.
As many have mentioned before, its probably a good [...]
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