The education secretary is giving her first major speech this morning with promises for a “new era on school standards” to reverse the “dark days of weak accountability” for schools. Not that the unions agree…
NEU general secretary Daniel Kebede today says Ofsted’s new report card system “will make things worse, not better” because “it will simply lead to headteachers trying to gather lots of evidence on all of these areas and that pressure trickles down through the school system to the teachers, to the support staff and indeed to the young people and the children.” Has Bridget realised all that kowtowing to the unions always ends this way?
Phillipson is speaking at the Centre for Social Justice:
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson MP delivers Keynote Speech at the Centre for Social Justice https://t.co/O5j5Kqeecw
— The Centre for Social Justice (@csjthinktank) February 3, 2025
Sarah Pochin at Reform Scotland’s manifesto launch event: “I really wanted to come on in a Reform tartan burka, but apparently I wasn’t allowed… One day let’s do one of these events not live-streamed. We’ll do all the naughty stuff…”