Speaking at the union's national conference on Monday (28 July), Andrew Broadhurst said some of the proposals in the government's 10-year plan were "downright wrong" and "looked like they were written on the back of a cigarette packet when the education secretary had a spare minute".
He singled out the culture offer for young people and the move to make teaching a masters profession as being particularly "ill-thought-out".
The plan to provide children and young people with an "arbitrary" five hours of cultural activity every week would put extra stress on teachers, said Broadhurst. He also claimed teachers could be forced to deliver these activities outside of school hours.
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