On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 21:46:29 +0000 (GMT), John Cartmell
wrote:

In article ,
Andy Hall wrote:
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:04:52 +0000, Mark
wrote:

On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 11:00:32 +0000, Andy Hall
wrote:

Quite. It would have been far better to have left it alone and not
have attempted to make every establishment a "university".

So why do you want a similar model applied to schools?

I don't. It's just the opposite.

I would like to see diversity and self management without the
government involved.

Whereas I would like to see diversity with the LEA taking over the management
and letting schools get on with teaching - with the government limited to
providing the money - just as it was before the Thatcher government made a
mess of it all...

Well..... from experience of the independent sector, it is possible
to run a school quite satisfactorily with a secretary and a part time
bursar.

There is no need to waste money on paying people in LEAs to be
involved in adding extra layers of management and bureaucracy.



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..andy