I'd not intended to write about the latest scandal (Partygate) to overwhelm Westminster as it all seems a long way from learning and sustainability which is supposed to be the theme of the blog.
However, today I found out that London's Finest are investigating happenings at the DfE. Here's a Met statement:
I've obviously not been paying enough attention but it was news to me that the DfE was under the spotlight. What can be the reason? Here are few possibilities:
A party to celebrate:
– Gav's birthday
– successfully blaming OfQual for the 2020 exams farrago
– not making a decision (again) about what to do about the proposed natural history GCSE
– managing to blame Holyrood for making an even worse hash of home learning than themselves
– writing the 10,000th letter to students saying that the national curriculum deals adequately with climate change
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