Teachers 'could lead schools' says report
18 Jan 2007
Teachers could be put in charge of schools under a groundbreaking initiative suggested by a report, released today. Until now it had been thought that the best people to be in control of educating the nation's children were second-hand car dealers, religious extremists and business people."In common with everyone else, we thought that it was best that teachers had as little as possible to do with teaching children, and people who know nothing about education run the show instead," said one of the report's authors, Dr Douglas Ramsbottom. "But when you think about it, it does sort of make sense to have people who know what they're doing in charge."
Sources in the Department of Education say that this last comment is likely to guarantee the report a frosty welcome because of the precedent it might set, but the schools minister said that the report's recommendations would be fully discussed with teachers before being ignored.
In a second report for the government, this time by consultants and accountants PricewaterhouseCoopers, ministers have been called on to encourage accountants, business people and consultants to run schools by paying them lots of money and naming things after them.
A spokesman could not tell DeadBrain how quickly its conclusions would be blindly implemented, but he suggested that it might be soon.
