A Bradford Apprenticeship

Biography & Memoir, Political
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Author: Donald Naismith ISBN: 9781524636104
Publisher: AuthorHouse UK Publication: September 23, 2016
Imprint: AuthorHouse UK Language: English
Author: Donald Naismith
ISBN: 9781524636104
Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
Publication: September 23, 2016
Imprint: AuthorHouse UK
Language: English

One of the main aims of the governments education policy is to make local education authorities a thing of the past by removing all schools from their control and establishing them as free-standing, self-governing academies. What was once a national service, locally administered is being transformed into a local service, nationally administered. Donald Naismith argues that there is no inherent contradiction between the governments academy programme and the retention of local authorities; that, on the contrary, the governments school improvement programme would make more headway with local council involvement; and that the new devolution arrangements emerging present an opportunity for a renewed partnership between central government and a revitalised local government which should be taken. Arguments strengthened by the recently announced intention to re-introduce selection. In his autobiographical sketch Very Near The Line, Donald Naismith described how the policies of the three London boroughs he served as chief education officer, Richmond-upon-Thames, Croydon and Wandsworth, helped to shape and advance Margaret Thatchers education reforms. In this affectionate tribute to his adopted city, he recalls his Bradford apprenticeship at school and in the citys education department, still powerfully evocative of Bradfords days as an outstanding education pioneer, which helped, in turn, to shape his thinking about the educational issues of the day and establish his belief in local government as an essential and beneficial part of the national system.

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One of the main aims of the governments education policy is to make local education authorities a thing of the past by removing all schools from their control and establishing them as free-standing, self-governing academies. What was once a national service, locally administered is being transformed into a local service, nationally administered. Donald Naismith argues that there is no inherent contradiction between the governments academy programme and the retention of local authorities; that, on the contrary, the governments school improvement programme would make more headway with local council involvement; and that the new devolution arrangements emerging present an opportunity for a renewed partnership between central government and a revitalised local government which should be taken. Arguments strengthened by the recently announced intention to re-introduce selection. In his autobiographical sketch Very Near The Line, Donald Naismith described how the policies of the three London boroughs he served as chief education officer, Richmond-upon-Thames, Croydon and Wandsworth, helped to shape and advance Margaret Thatchers education reforms. In this affectionate tribute to his adopted city, he recalls his Bradford apprenticeship at school and in the citys education department, still powerfully evocative of Bradfords days as an outstanding education pioneer, which helped, in turn, to shape his thinking about the educational issues of the day and establish his belief in local government as an essential and beneficial part of the national system.

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