Chair Of Ofsted's Contract Ends And Is Not Renewed

[mushroom25]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-25997102

Politicisation of public bodies by the tory government? Or sour grapes from someone who believed they had a job for life?

[Gromit]

Which ever party are in, they tend to fill these sort of positions with their own. When a different party come in, they start to clear out. Happens with BBC Governors and Trust.

I do find Gove particilarly odius and would like to have a ho, but in this instance he isn't really doing anything the other lot wouldn't do.

[mushroom25]

I guess we all know they want people they can trust in public bodies, ie their like minded friends, and they must know we know.

so why all the "sometimes roles must be refreshed" load of ***?

[bibblebub]

the Education Minister thinks that it is political http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/02/02/michael-gove-david-laws_n_4711596.html?utm_hp_ref=tw

[Gromit]

By Jove!

// Mr Gove refused to rule out the appointment of Theodore Agnew, the private equity boss who has given £144,000 to the Tories, on Sunday.

Asked if Mr Agnew will replace Baroness Morgan, Mr Gove said: "No one should be ruled out on basis of political allegiance". //

[sunny-dave]

Teachers are going to be in a real bind here.

Most of them hate Gove with a passion, but Ofsted is also reviled and vilified as a self-serving, bureaucratic, disaster area (and Morgan has done precious little to improve it).

It does remind one of "The Unspeakable in Full Pursuit of the Uneatable ..."