In the news

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/jan/17/michael-gove-inspection-school-academy

A colleague of mine is on the board of governers of a school they are trying to force to become an academy, its a disgrace that they are using the poorly performing schools in areas with very challenging pupils as an experiment and they have no choice in the matter!

Oof, it's all a sham by the Pob lookalike isn't it?

I've just been practically summoned to meet the Head of Education Lambeth next week; despite cutting the funding for the local Early Years Centre - where I'm a governor - by 20-30% they're now appear to be suggesting that unless we take over a) 1 failing nursery that the private sector couldn't deliver and b) existing flexible early years provision delivered by a charity we could have further cuts.

Their current offer is to split staff across 3 sites and won't listen to any argument that we'll need more staff to deliver it. They seem to think we have invented teleportation.