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Ofsted plan to inspect ‘cultural capital’ in schools attacked as elitist
The inspectors’ new catchphrase shows ‘white, middle-class paternalism’ that will alienate many students, critics say A two-word term, invented in the 1970s by a French sociologist heavily influenced by Karl Marx, makes an unlikely entrance in Ofsted’s new framework [pdf] for the inspection of schools in England this week.Each institution... -
Gove and Cummings honed their dark arts in education. Now they’re using them to trash the country
Their toxic antics at the Department for Education disguised policies that were wilfully careless with children’s futuresOnce upon a time there was a Twitter account called @toryeducation. Now extinct for reasons that will become clear, it was in its day an aggressive player in the education policy debate raging around...