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The teachers’ union, NUSUWT, have been meeting in Birmingham to discuss various issues. Among these is the role of students who sit in on teacher interview panels.
Pupils sitting on teacher interview panels? Are the lunatics now to run the asylums?
It is right to engage pupils in their school community but this practice has gone too far and teachers are right to react against it.
For once the government has got it right. A spokesman said, ‘The purpose is not to see pupils' views being used to feed into performance management of teachers’.
We learn something every day!
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The teachers’ union, NUSUWT, have been meeting in Birmingham to discuss various issues. Among these is the role of students who sit in on teacher interview panels.
Pupils sitting on teacher interview panels? Are the lunatics now to run the asylums?
It is right to engage pupils in their school community but this practice has gone too far and teachers are right to react against it.
For once the government has got it right. A spokesman said, ‘The purpose is not to see pupils' views being used to feed into performance management of teachers’.
We learn something every day!
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