{"id":27,"date":"2008-01-24T18:34:55","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T17:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=27"},"modified":"2008-01-24T22:26:44","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T21:26:44","slug":"sack-the-bad-teachers-%e2%80%93-woodhead-must-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"Sack the bad teachers \u2013 Woodhead must go!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hugh Muir reports in today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/diary\/story\/0,,2245761,00.html\">Guardian<\/a> that &#8216;Ofsted now rates the teacher training provided at Buckingham &#8211; the only private university in England &#8211; as just &#8220;satisfactory&#8221;.&#8217; Oh dear, and that&#8217;s where the teachers&#8217; friend, former chief inspector of schools (and occasional <em>Telegraph<\/em> columnist) Chris Woodhead now works, along with Professor Anthony O&#8217;Hear, once Mrs Thatcher&#8217;s education guru, and Professor Alan Smithers. As Muir comments, &#8216;Must raise standards, they always say. Certainly we must.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ofsted now rates the teacher training provided at Buckingham as just &#8220;satisfactory&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}