My advice to anyone working in schools or colleges is to steer well clear of Sunday newspapers and news broadcasts.
Inevitably there is at least one article guaranteed to raise the blood pressure of committed education professionals who are trying their hardest to improve our education service even further.
Unfortunately, I failed to follow my own advice recently and found my head shaking at a Sunday Times front page article that speculated that the Treasury was attempting to persuade the Department for Education to make 230,000 teaching assistants redundant.
Whatever the provenance of this speculation, the idea that a government that has preached autonomy for schools, and that has absolutely no power to tell schools whom they can legally employ, could contemplate such a decision is plainly outrageous.
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