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Inspector should never have been sacked and Ofsted shouldn’t have wasted public money pursuing him through the courts
The article Former Ofsted inspector wins unfair dismissal case after being sacked for brushing water off a child’s head first appeared on the UNISON National site.
Inspector should never have been sacked and Ofsted shouldn’t have wasted public money pursuing him through the courts
The article Former Ofsted inspector wins unfair dismissal case after being sacked for brushing water off a child’s head first appeared on the UNISON National site.
Education secretary is wrong to make light of aggression
The article Violence in schools is no laughing matter first appeared on the UNISON National site.
Education secretary is wrong to make light of aggression
The article Violence in schools is no laughing matter first appeared on the UNISON National site.
General secretary expresses disappointment that the union was not told of a proposed one-off, unconsolidated payment and calls for a pay meeting
The article UNISON writes to civil service boss for clarity over pay offer first appeared on the UNISON National site.
UNISON, the union that represents early years inspectors, has welcomed Ofsted’s decision today (Tuesday) to bring the service back in house from April 2017. Early years inspection was previously…Read more…
One of AMiE’s goals is to highlight what effective leadership looks like, to help raise the standard of leadership and management practice. We believe that the profession itself is able to be…Read more…
By Ralph Surman, ATL policy officer. Workload and work life balance is a prominent issue of discussion among educational professionals. The government seems to have taken very little notice of their…Read more…
As part of ATL’s Union Learning Fund project, ATL Midlands have organized their first English and maths week. This week we’ll feature three blogs from Joanne Miles about embedding…Read more…
The requirement of parents to ensure that their children attend school “regularly” is nothing new: it isn’t a Blair-era piece of government control, it dates back to the 1944 Education Act. This was…Read more…
Jill Stokoe is is an Education Policy Adviser at ATL. Last week ATL submitted evidence to the Education Select Committee on the work of Ofsted, based on members’ views and experiences –…Read more…
Laura McInerney, editor of Schools Week, gives us her take on the first 100 days of a Conservative government. There’s a moment in every child’s life where they happen upon the secret to all of…Read more…
Nansi Ellis, ATL assistant general secretary (policy), gives us her take on the first 100 days of a Conservative government. When I start a project, I usually spend some time scribbling ideas. I let…Read more…
Mark Wright is the assistant director of AMiE (leadership and management). Politicians and practitioners ideally work together to take education on a shared journey so it doesn’t bode well that the…Read more…
And another thing… A weekly blog by ATL general secretary Mary Bousted John Cridland, director general of the CBI, cannot remotely be named or shamed as a member of the education ‘blob’. And yet his…Read more…
And another thing… Our weekly blog by ATL general secretary Mary Bousted. And so it begins – Nicky Morgan’s bonkers announcement that the leaders of ‘failing or coasting’ schools will have…Read more…
And here’s another thing… Our new weekly blog by ATL general secretary Mary Bousted. Education policy has not been a prominent feature of the election campaign. Political parties have vied for the…Read more…
And here’s another thing… Our new weekly blog by ATL general secretary Mary Bousted. Tristram Hunt has pledged that Labour would reform School Direct, the school based ITT model introduced by the…Read more…
Mark Wright is the assistant director (leadership & management) at AMiE. Following the speech Tristram Hunt gave at the ATL conference outlining Labour’s education policies, this, along with…Read more…
In private, and off the record, politicians of all political persuasions will admit that Ofsted is no longer, if it ever was, the key to raising educational standards. It is now widely acknowledged…Read more…