{"id":8044,"date":"2022-01-28T16:30:42","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T16:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=8044"},"modified":"2022-01-28T16:30:42","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T16:30:42","slug":"parties-at-the-dfe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2022\/01\/28\/parties-at-the-dfe\/","title":{"rendered":"Parties at the DfE?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>However, today I found out that London's Finest are investigating happenings at the DfE. \u00a0Here's a Met statement:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2022\/01\/28\/parties-at-the-dfe\/unknown-1-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8045\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8045 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2022\/01\/Unknown-1-300x228.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2022\/01\/Unknown-1-300x228.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2022\/01\/Unknown-1-1024x779.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2022\/01\/Unknown-1-768x584.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2022\/01\/Unknown-1-283x215.jpeg 283w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2022\/01\/Unknown-1.jpeg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I've obviously not been paying enough attention but it was news to me that the DfE was under the spotlight. \u00a0What can be the reason? \u00a0Here are few possibilities:<\/p>\n<p>A party to celebrate:<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Gav's birthday<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 successfully blaming OfQual for the 2020 exams farrago<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 not making a decision (again) about what to do about the proposed natural history GCSE<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 managing to blame Holyrood for making an even worse hash of home learning than themselves<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 writing the 10,000th letter to students saying that the national curriculum deals adequately with climate change<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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...<\/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-8044","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\/8044","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=8044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}