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The worst timing possible...

Our headteacher diarist despairs as the confirmation of GCSE reform and Michael Gove's comments on the quality of the current qualifications come just as our students enter the exam hall...

Whatever activity you are engaged in, timing is critical. I am thinking of the player who scores a great goal but mistimed his run and is flagged offside, or the pass that most certainly would have led to a try if the receiving player had been a yard further forward – the list goes on.

In our working world we think of the announcements that emanate during the first week of the summer holidays or from somewhere in left field – those about which the first we teachers hear is usually via Radio 4!

Frustrating certainly, suspiciously bad timing possibly, but ultimately we can live with them and work our way around them, which is what we always do. 

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