Redundant

A pile of redundant stuff on my desk - old ink cartridges (must take them to be recycled), dud batteries and a broken USB key. What fascinating technology there is in a simple USB device!

Spent the best part of the day at the school where I'm a governor analysing the latest attainment data and then writing a report for the next full governing body meeting.

I've been in education for over 40 years now and seen pretty much everything and anything successive governments have done but this lot takes the biscuit. We may not have liked the previous regime but at least we knew what we were doing and could compare year on year. Now we have a whole new national curriculum, whole new way of assessing progress and attainment, new tests in May. And guess what, schools, you work it all out for yourselves and by the way we don't know what the new tests will look like. The workload this is putting our teachers under is intolerable yet nobody in positions of authority seems to care, least of all the Secretary of State for Education. She's presiding over carnage.

After that meeting I was on the phone for a telephone conference call with people involved in planning the next phase of the computer work with Young Offenders. That took 90 minutes. Which meant a late lunch and little time to do anything else. It'll keep until tomorrow