Category Archives: Examinations & assessment
Baker to Balls: Coxcomb to Cock-up
Budget Day 2009: a day to remember for its revelations: in Parliament, of the government’s fiscal profligacy: in the Commons’ Select Committee on Education, of bitter recrimination over the last SATs fiasco. The Treasury gives us a tale of financial … Continue reading
Filed under Current policies, Examinations & assessment
AN INNOCENT ABROAD
Poor Ken Boston. Forced to resign, and traduced, he believes, by Ministers. After a distinguished career in Australia Ken Boston came full of hope to head the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority. He did not know about Powell’s Law. Here in England public … Continue reading
Filed under Curriculum, Diogenes, Examinations & assessment
SHADES OF THE PRISON HOUSE begin to close
Upon the growing boy… And girl. The Victorians were great ones for order. They sought it in well-planned institutions. For Paupers, there were workhouses; for Patients, hospitals; for Prisoners, penitentiaries; for Pupils, schools. Unless you happened to be a solvent, … Continue reading
Filed under Diogenes, Examinations & assessment, History, School inspections, Teaching
