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Bernard Trafford
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‘Councils blocking SEND support can learn from the Christmas story’
The special educational needs and disabilities support system requires a root-and-branch review, says Bernard Trafford
20 December 2018
Universities are damned if they do and damned if they don’t
The HE sector is castigated as elitist and castigated as lowering the bar when it makes unconditional offers
15 December 2018
‘All schools want for Christmas is more money and less lying’
Ministers’ comments about schools having enough funding show how removed they are from reality, says Bernard Trafford
8 December 2018
‘Want to ease the teacher retention crisis? We must change the nature of the job’
If Lucy Kellaway’s suggestion is that teachers can only cope with a three-day week, then it’s the job, not the timetable, that must change
1 December 2018
Ministers, get back to Brexit and leave teachers alone
It’s a colossal waste of money and many schools do them already, so what’s the point of the new times-tables test?
17 November 2018
‘I understand why home educators feel threatened’
Home educators are widely misrepresented, including on the Tes Podcast – and they have the right to react vocally
13 November 2018