Tag: ASCL
“The squalid, unambitious lamentable smallness of our politics” (Geoff Barton): government’s...
Just the other day Geoff Barton, head of the school leaders’ union ASCL, quoted Barack Obama’s view that our problem is not the hugeness...
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As government promises news on schools reopening and summer exams, retired headteacher Bernard Trafford reckons it’s safest to assume that what will actually happen...
A level and GCSE exams won’t take place as “normal” in...
As one in six schools has year-groups sent home due to Covid outbreaks, and pupil progress is affected as a result, education bodies are...
Allowing disappointed candidates to cite mock exams to appeal their results?...
It’s nice to be proved right: but former headteacher Bernard Trafford would have preferred to be proved wrong about the A level results fiasco....
