Category: Leighton Andrews

Ann Keane · BBC news · David Reynolds · Leighton Andrews · the Economist · The Telegraph

Welsh education – ‘producerism’s last hurrah’!

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This week’s TES is reporting that the chief inspector of Estyn (the Welsh equivalent of Ofsted) Ann Keane has just published a report claiming that 40% of pupils starting secondary school in Wales do so with a reading age of six months below their chronological age. What I would like to know is how she… Continue reading Welsh education – ‘producerism’s last hurrah’!

Leighton Andrews · reading tests · the Economist

But it’s too late, Leighton now, it’s too late…

John

I know I’m a week late on this but it’s taken me a week to be able to compose a temperate response to the news that Leighton Andrews, the Labour education minister for Wales, has suddenly decided that the pupils of Wales ‘deserve better’ and that what is needed now is to raise standards. After… Continue reading But it’s too late, Leighton now, it’s too late…