Those who shouldn't, teach?
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Half-term. And what are the teachers among you thinking about as you eat your toast and marmalade and watch the raindrops racing down the kitchen windows? Throwing yourself on the scrapheap of history perhaps?
For Michael Gove has decreed that qualified teachers aren't really a priority in his new world of "free" schools. Teachers need not hold qualified teacher status and neither will free school heads require a national professional qualification for headship.
Meanwhile councils, including Conservative and Liberal Democrat ones, are in revolt against the whole idea. Free schools, they say, will wreck social harmony by deepening ethnic divides.
Report card
Peter Wilby interviews a former chair of Ofsted with what he calls the "raunchy air" of a television barmaid, and finds out what made the bubbly Zenna Atkins take a top job with a private education company. And we've come up with a list of former educationists now working as "edupreneurs" - you probably have more you could add.
Back in the state sector, Estelle Morris looks at the likely effects of the government's education priorities - more money for academies and free schools will inevitably mean less for everyone else, she argues. Of course we now know there isn't really new money for the pupil premium either - that's also going to come out of other bits of the education budget.
And Janet Murray canvasses 16- to 19-year olds on how they rate their life chances in the wake of the spending review.
On the margins
We know who's going to win The Apprentice! Academics at Leeds University business school have told us how to work it out - and now it's soooo obvious. Lucy Tobin has the secret.
Quote of the week
Sounding off this week is star blogger Guerrillamum, in response to Gove's admission on pupil premiums:
"There has been a lot of talk about how election pledges have been broken on tuition fees and on child benefit. Lots of column inches, hours of radio and television and bucketloads of spin. It was hard to watch TV, listen to the radio or read a paper without seeing the DPM telling of his angst and regret.
Almost unnoticed, except for a small article in The Guardian, was the news that the minister of education had revealed that the funding for the pupil premium' was not in fact 'new money' but would largely come out of other schools funding .
Why is this important? It's important because the prime minister, the deputy prime minister and the education minister have all previously said that it would come from outside the education budget. Was it a mistake, sophistry or downright deception? I suppose we will never know.
What I do know is that through skillful spin it has not emerged as a big issue and was not widely reported. Because of this, the government's media monitors/advisers will clap themselves on the back and say that nobody is making a fuss about this so you can go ahead and push on and cut more money from budgets for poor or disadvantaged pupils. It's cynical, nasty and demonstrates their true colours."
Top stories in the Guardian
On the road again Danny Dorling takes his inequality roadshow to schools - and gets some challenging responses. Check out his video on elitism in Sheffields schools.
Off road Jeremy Clarkson gets told off for calling a car "special needs". Clarkson said the Ferrari F430 Speciale was "a bit wrong … that smiling front end … it looks like a simpleton … [it] should have been called the 430 Speciale Needs".
Fighting homophobia The school that trains teachers in countering anti-gay prejudice
Private universities Following the lead of American-owned BPP, private universities look unstoppable
And from around the web
Just one in three diploma students pass, says Ofsted
A fifth of primary schools are overcrowded
Pamela Anderson addresses the Oxford Union. "I think we had a really profound effect on the audience."
And a sign of the times from the Manchester Evening News: a Manchester pound shop is rebranding as an 85p shop
Blogs of the week
Labour-supporting blog 2m2you gets to work on the dodgy economics behind the Browne review.
And Tory conference star Katharine Birbalsingh returns to blogging - here she is on why Eton is marvellous.
Competition
Do you have a clever way of using technology to teach children at your school? Enter the Classroom Innovation awards by sending in a short video of what you can do. There is a primary and secondary category and each winner will get £7,500 of Asus computing kit.
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