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Bernard Trafford
All articles by Bernard Trafford
‘To euphemistically use the term “efficiencies” is insulting to those desperately trying to square the education funding circle’
If government keeps demonstrating how little it values teachers by encouraging cost-cutting and underpaying, we’ll see an acceleration of already declining recruitment
26 March 2017
‘The scale of mental health issues in young people is not quite a crisis. But it will be if the government doesn’t reach into its pocket’
Mental health counsellors should not be a “luxury” that can be axed as the funding cuts in the state sector bite
19 March 2017
‘Learning outside the classroom builds character and helps children thrive - it can’t become the preserve of independent schools’
‘Real education’ is about developing rounded, resilient individuals who also happen to score best when it comes to those necessary certificates
11 March 2017
‘Like Nero, the government fiddles (and publishes a Green Paper) while the schools system burns’
Schools face funding crises while there are insufficient places to go round – the government’s Green Paper does nothing to resolve this
4 March 2017
‘Just 1% of the population prioritises education. We should really ask what sort of country we’re creating’
In a Brexit, fake news, Trump world, education matters more than ever. And yet no-one seems to care that it’s being ravaged
18 February 2017
‘The best thing about the teacher-bots of the future is that they won’t accept the “blame-poverty-or-a-broken-home” defeatism’
One celebrated head experiences the brave new world of robotics in school
11 February 2017