{"id":6087,"date":"2014-09-15T14:03:22","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T14:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6087"},"modified":"2014-09-15T14:03:22","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T14:03:22","slug":"nine-commissioners-to-the-fore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/09\/15\/nine-commissioners-to-the-fore\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine Commissioners to the Fore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>England's\u00a0Department for Education\u00a0has bowed to pressure from Ofsted and agreed to appoint 8 regional education <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everythingfreeschools.co.uk\/2014\/04\/15\/regional-schools-commissioners-the-full-list\">commissioners<\/a> (and a\u00a0super, 'national' commissioner to keep an eye on the other 8). \u00a0Their role is to oversee the ~4000 free schools and academies in England. \u00a0The policy has seen England carved up into eight regions, with London rather oddly split between three of these. \u00a0The national commissioner will also have responsibility for \"<em>leading communications between the DfE and the education sector<\/em>\".<\/p>\n<p>Given that another role is to \"<em>promote the benefits of the academies and free schools programme<\/em>\", you have to wonder just how much independence there is in the role. \u00a0Not so much' regional' and \u00a0'national', perhaps, as 'governmental'. \u00a0I also wondered, for a\u00a0brief mad\u00a0moment, whether these panjandrums would be being directly elected; silly me.<\/p>\n<p>All very English \u2013 and you don't have to be in the wilder bits of Glasgow to see this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>England's\u00a0Department for Education\u00a0has bowed to pressure from Ofsted and agreed to appoint 8 regional education commissioners (and a\u00a0super, 'national' commissioner to keep an eye on the other 8). \u00a0Their role is to oversee the ~4000 free schools and academies in...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}