TES column 6 February 2015 ‘Professional’, used as a descriptive term, has undergone a transformation. Today it means ‘unequivocally good’. Governors are expected to work ‘professionally’ to encourage school improvement. Top-of-the-range tools and products are ‘professional quality’ and we aspire …
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This is a written up version of a speech that I gave to the Association of Journalism Educators’ annual conference on 13 June 2014, at Liverpool John Mores University. When Keri Hudson was 21, she took on an unpaid internship …
Column, originally published in the Times Education Supplement 7 March 2014 ‘How would you like to take an assembly’, asked my head, the day after I took over the reigns as chair of the school governing body. ‘Your predecessor, the …
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