I need my child to come in, I am a critical worker, the parent says. We had this discussion last time, I say. Did we, she says, then you will remember I am in food distribution. I laugh. You work in a cake shop and it has been closed for weeks, I say.

Interesting. They seem to have some "heavyweights" involved..... tes.com/news/gcses-exa…

Absolutely spot on. tes.com/news/coronavir…

How interesting....tes.com/news/gcses-202…

Interesting; let's hope that different scenarios are properly planned for, in good time, unlike what has happened in 2021. inews.co.uk/news/education…

'While @EDSKthinktank is right about the problem with England’s qualifications system, its solution is harder than it needs to be' - writes Impington International College (IIC)'s Jo Sale schoolsweek.co.uk/a-better-alter…

Who'd want to play this game of TAG? By using the label 'teacher-assessed grades', Department for Education has shifted responsibility away from government and put teachers in the firing line, writes David James tes.com/news/teacher-a…

Matt Hancock tells the Commons: “The number of vaccinations happening in Bolton right now is phenomenal - tens of thousands every single day”. Which sounded a lot for a population of less than 300,000 people and, well, here’s the official data for Bolton....

'The tone recently has been more defensive and there seems to be a lack of engagement with school leaders' Meg Hillier assesses the DfE's performance schoolsweek.co.uk/the-dfe-must-s…

Last year, the Government ignored advice and offers of help from the social care sector. As a result, Covid-19 was seeded into care homes and tens of thousands of residents lost their lives. We cannot allow social care to continue to be an afterthought.

Absolutely.

New government guidance has set out details on vaccines for 12 to 15-year-olds: here's your trusty Schools Week round-up for what school leaders need to know schoolsweek.co.uk/covid-vaccines…

Kevin Maguire Máire Davies When a working class lad met Boris Johnson ...and what happened...

Absolutely - and in my experience rarely talked about, because it's too damaging to the status quo, and the meritocracy ideal.....

Re-reading this. Is making a mistake very early on a pattern? Or will Truss or Kwarteng claim they didn't write this bit? Do they believe in collective responsibility??

How are you funded? nucnet.org

A historic failure

This hasn’t aged terribly well.

Ofsted: a case of official negligence? | The BMJ bmj.com/content/381/bm…

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