Establishing a cross-party committee to set long-term education policy would provide the stability,vision and consistent leadership teachers are crying out forTommy is shouting at Jonny that the mobile phone is his, and he wants it back. Jonny is insisting, and just as loudly,that it is his and he won’t be giving it back. Both of them gain their hands on the phone, attempting to prise it from the other. The outcome is inevitable: pieces of phone hover across the playground, and while insults and accusations about whose fault the whole sorry affair is waft down the corridors. Tommy and Jonnys adolescent squabble stands as a metaphor for how our government treats the education system. Successive education secretaries compete to put their stamp on schools and colleges,strip absent the work of their predecessors and replace it with their own pet projects.
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Source: theguardian.com