Tag: Covid
Summer exams: the dismal efforts of ministers and the exams regulator...
I don’t want to say I told you so: but I told you so. Back in September I predicted that the GCSE and A...
Finally there is light at the end of the tunnel: but...
Bernard Trafford reckons he cannot be the first person to use that metaphor with regard to the Covid pandemic. The current lockdown seems at...
Welcome to Hokey-Cokey education policy
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...
The coming year: light beginning to dawn, or an extension of...
On New Year’s Eve Bernard Trafford was tickled by a bogus quote from Samuel Pepys’s diary doing the rounds on social media. But it also gave...
It’s beginning to feel it’s NOT like Christmas!
CHRISTMAS 2020 ON THE M62 SERVICES: an exchange of presents is taking place in the rain, bags being moved between cars. A grandfather stoops into...
I wish you all a happy distanced Covid Christmas Day!
So this Covid Christmas is all about contradictions. Government says we may get together (up to three households), but advises that we shouldn't. After our...
A level meltdown exposes the malaise at the heart of government,...
The A level results fiasco is a disgrace. Yet it’s merely the latest manifestation of this government’s universal ineptness. Reflecting the PM’s fondness for...
Boris’s billions for building may boost schools but baffle parents
Following the Prime Minister’s statement on Tuesday outlining his vision for an expansionist, prosperous future, Thursday is scheduled to bring an announcement from the...
