The Government is tying itself in knots over league tables
Friday, 22nd July, 2011 The contradiction is, to this observer, breathtaking. Last week, the Government said this: “Too many of our public services are still run according to the maxim ‘the man in Whitehall really does know best’…The idea behind this view of the world – that a small group of Whitehall ministers and officials have a monopoly on wisdom – has propagated a lowest common denominator approach to public services…” “People should be in the driving seat, not politicians and bureaucrats,” said the Government, in its “open public services” white paper. On Wednesday, it announced new decisions on what is to count in schoolRead More →