The trouble with alternative education
Howard Williamson
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
It really is quite incredible that it has taken Ofsted 10 years to conclude that a significant minority of schools are failing to provide suitable forms of alternative education. Those close to the action will have known this ever since the opportunity for "disapplication" became available. The reason is not so much a lack of resources - though in many ways this is reason enough, for alternatives are often dramatically more expensive - but rather a case of misunderstanding what the alternative curriculum was all about in the first place.
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