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Bernard Trafford
All articles by Bernard Trafford
‘Wellbeing must be moved up the agenda for schools but inspection is entirely the wrong way to go about it’
This country has been brainwashed into thinking that schools and teachers must be held accountable exclusively through data, inspection and league tables, writes one leading headteacher
16 October 2016
‘Teachers and heads in large part have the liberal values that Ms May is pillorying’
Suddenly teachers find their values being pilloried. We are now the ‘liberal elite’: educated, internationalist and slammed by Theresa May for our ‘smugness’, writes one leading headteacher
9 October 2016
‘Taking a headship comes with huge risks: putting a ceiling on pay-offs for school leaders is madness’
It’s already hard to recruit school leaders – look at league tables, academisation and Ofsted, argues one leading head. Telling them that they won’t get a decent pay-off if they have to move on will only put many more off taking the top job
3 October 2016
‘After 26 years of headship, I am calling time. What will I miss most? The pupils’
I will truly miss the banter, writes this top headteacher. Teachers and children are hilarious – quick to see the funny side of things and to poke irreverent fun at school life
25 September 2016
How on earth can a 100 per cent faith school hope to encompass pupils from a variety of backgrounds?
The faith school proposal in the Green Paper will only succeed in making schools work for fewer children than they do now
18 September 2016
‘The recruitment crisis won’t ease until the government stops harassing schools and increases teacher pay - ministers are courting a national disaster’
It’s hardly surprising that so few top graduates want to enter teaching, writes one leading head. They can see the way that the government treats the profession
7 September 2016