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Defending soft options
BARNABY LENON, head of and twizzlers and you can’t read
Harrow – £30,000 a year, boaters, Cicero? In the original? Or are we
tailcoats, and rather exclusive back on the High Art good Low
Edwardian values – addresses Art bad lark?
the topic of “Social Mobility”. The word we’re looking for
There’s not enough of it. It is “snobbery”. There’s a long
concerns him. Why don’t paupers tradition of it in education. My old
go to proper universities? Some teachers told me that Dryden was
seem “bright” enough. Why don’t better than Elvis. He hadn’t heard
they do as well as our chaps? Hound Dog. His oeuvre prompted
I give up. Huge wealth? moral turpitude. I’d become
Small classes? Social vulgar “wide boy” and
Immobility? Nope. The never get to Oxbridge. Business sense: Seventy-two trail-blazing school business managers have become the first in the country to gain an
wrong subjects! My And now there’s all this Advanced Diploma in School Business Management. The graduates celebrated their achievement at a ceremony in
pupils do “soft” ones – meretricious Media Nottingham, and will now return to their schools to help ensure they are making the most of their finances. The qualification
too “soft” and too easy. stuff so popular with is run by the National College for Leadership of Schools and Children’s Services. Visit
www.nationalcollege.org.uk
Their grades are hence the working classes.
“worthless” and give The Gove is missing
them false hope. They’re the point. Media Studies
“like those girls in the is less about content
first round of X Factor and more about analysis Time running out to nominate
who think they’re – rather complex cultural
Britney Spears”! The analysis. It can prompt
hussies! They could brilliant and thrilling work.
end up going to any It’s academically rigorous. for this year’s Teaching Awards
old university to read A grades are really tough.
any subject. Crumbs! Like It’s exciting to teach, but also
Greats at Balliol? Philosophy tough – because of all this Year, which will be awarded to Thompson, who is the president I’ve done to my fantastic teachers at
at King’s? Of course not. dreary snobbery. You try doing
by Chris Parr
a group of teaching staff that can of the Teaching Awards Trust, has school and at university.
“Soft subjects” don’t cut it with semiotics with a class of only demonstrate exceptional teamwork. urged teachers to put their col- “It is very difficult to imagine how
proper universities. nutters. You try teaching Jean-Luc There are less than three weeks left The deadline for nominat- leagues forward. any of us would develop into happy,
Well, maybe they should. Godard to Sid-Luc Lunk. to nominate your colleagues for a ing is March 1, and actress Emma She said: “I owe so much of what confident, fulfilled citizens without
Not much is softer than Media “Sacre Bleu!” says le Sid. Teaching Award. good teachers. But for them, all the
Studies. Dear me. Do people The problem isn’t the subject, The annual awards, which are other professions would pretty much
really still think this? It would but it’s Gove and his ilk. open to schools in England, Wales
Teaching Awards: Secondary categories
cease to exist.”
appear so. The shadow minister Why does it threaten them so? and Northern Ireland, are unveiling
The SSAT Award for Outstanding New Teacher of the Year
Pete Henshaw, editor of SecEd,
for education, the dread Gove, for Is it a bit too modern? Too much three new categories this year –
The National College Award for Headteacher of the Year
will once again be on the judging
instance. Up he pipes – “More fun? Is there too much of that including the Henry Winkler Award panel for the London and the South
children who were eligible for free Barthesian “jouissance”? Or is it a for Special Needs.
The Royal Air Force Award for Teacher of the Year
East region Sustainable Schools
school meals sat GCSEs in Media little too “polytechnic”? Or perhaps This award will recognise the
The Henry Winkler Award for Special Needs
Award, which is given to schools
Studies than in physics, chemistry because it prompts a bit too much best special needs team, with three The DCSF Award for Enterprise demonstrating exceptional commit-
and biology combined!” of that “Social Mobility”. winners taking home bursaries
The Becta Award for Next Generation Learning
ment to environmental issues.
Read that again. I don’t get it. worth up to £15,000.
Outstanding School Team of the Year
Regional winners will be recog-
Do you? Is this a poverty issue? • Ian Whitwham is a former The other new awards for 2010 nised at ceremonies across the UK,
A cultural issue? A pedagogical teacher. A book of his best ever are Film My School, which chal-
The TDA Award for Teaching Assistant of the Year
before going on to a national final
issue? Or just a food issue? columns is out now. For details, lenges youngsters to make a short
The DCSF Award for Sustainable Schools
held in London in October.
Too many crisps and fizzlers email
editor@sec-ed.co.uk film celebrating their school, and The Ted Wragg Award for Lifetime Achievement To nominate, visit www.teaching
Outstanding School Team of the
awards.com
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