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Teachers under surveillance

 http://www.ccpixel.net/2009/09/eye-reflection/ In the latest issue of the Eye, there’s a lovely little satire on teachers and reading: TEACHERS PROTEST AT HAVING TO TEACH CHILDREN TO READby Our Education Staff Michael WhiteboardBRITAIN’s top teaching union, NOTREAD (the National organisation of Teaching Representatives, Educationalists and Deputies) last night voted unanimously to go on strike against government… Continue reading Teachers under surveillance

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Private Eye gets in on the act of questioning education policy

I veritably LOLed when I opened the latest issue of the Eye (10th July, 2009). ‘Prime Ministerial Decree No 48’ announces the sweeping away of ‘the hated Milburnite-Blairite targetology’ and its replacement with ‘universal human rightism’. The second of the rights is ‘The right of every child to be given a place in the best… Continue reading Private Eye gets in on the act of questioning education policy