Defenestrate Ofsted and the Department for Education

Autor/in	Bassey, Michael
Titel	Defenestrate Ofsted and the Department for Education
Quelle	In: FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 64 (2022) 2, S.119-128 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0963-8253
DOI	10.3898/forum.2022.64.2.13
Schlagwörter	Public Agencies; Role of Education; Ecology; Climate; Economic Change; World Problems; Food; Water; Energy; Professionalism; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Öffentliche Einrichtung; Bildungsauftrag; Ökologie; Klima; Ökonomischer Wandel; Weltproblem; Lebensmittel; Wasser; Energie; Professionalität; Ausland
Abstract	The Department for Education sees school education as responding to what its ministers perceive as the economic demands of the future. They fail to recognise the need for young people to be prepared for the ecological problems on the horizon, such as climate change, economic turmoil and the human consequences of a global shortage of food, water and energy. I argue that a National Education Council for Schools is needed which should ensure that it is the professionalism of teachers that directs the education of the young in preparing them for what the world of their adulthood may be like. Hence, I come to the momentous conclusion that the Department for Education and its enforcement arm, Ofsted, should be abolished. In the more evocative term used in my title, they should be defenestrated. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01