I read the article by Nicky Morgan and Nick Clegg, ‘ We’re offering every teacher a new deal ,’ with interest. First of all, I thought they’d be doing something really radical like. Before reading further, if you’re not familiar with my thoughts on this, I would encourage you to read my Manifesto for Education , Teacher workload and well-being and my personal perspective on workload . This post is a response, of sorts, to the article that appeared in the TES (although I did have a chuckle that the job titles written out). Before I go much further, I am a realist. I wonder how large and important in terms of general election votes teachers actually are. I’m looking at that as a side issue, call me naive if you like. I found the proposals interesting, I’m not a natural cynic and negativity doesn’t sit well as anyone who glances through these pages will (hopefully) find. I welcome the idea of no changes to the inspection framework and curriculum. But, thi...
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