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Election 2015: A plea to all politicians

CPD Pedagogy
As the election nears, Professor Chris Husbands calls on politicians to stop latching onto ineffective interventions and to focus simply on teaching.

It’s election time: before the end of the school year, voters will have gone to the polls and a new government will be in office. There are choices to be made by all major parties: whether to offer consolidation, recognising the radical changes to curriculum, assessment and school structures introduced since the Academies Act of 2010, or to strike boldly out for more change.

For the Conservatives, noting at their conference that more children now attend good and outstanding schools, there must be a temptation to consolidate, to build bridges with teachers and make the Govian legacy work, rather than unleashing yet more disruptive change.

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