The new head comes in with a picture of a healthy, happy school and may therefore be unprepared for the problems that surface when they arrive.

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The less-academically able are giving up languages but they too could have some use for it in the workplace later on.

224

This is not a case of novice heads or those with a poor track record and poor management skills being called to task. These are experienced heads.

192

We are looking at all our options to see what is best for the town, ... I'm glad we are not moving quickly because it gives us time to see what's going on with the FBI.

175

Pupils will continue to eat unhealthy packed lunches and visit the local chip shop.

110

Next year will be even lower. I think the figures are in free fall. We are losing a generation of linguists.

97

There must be a strong suspicion that this is a ruse to increase the number of schools that can be turned into academies, so that the Prime Minister's target of 200 academies can be met.

80

Dyslexia may or may not be the correct name for the problem but there are undoubtedly many thousands of children and adults whose education has suffered as a result of their difficulty with word recognition.

76

The freedoms being offered in the white paper are largely an illusion. What schools need is more freedom from government interference and incessant education reform.

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