24 Quotes by John Dunford

Dyslexia may or may not be the correct name for the problem but there are undoubtedly many thousands of children and adults whose education has suffered as a result of their difficulty with word recognition.

The role of heads and principals has changed enormously in the last decade, and it will continue to evolve as schools and colleges receive more autonomy, extended schools come into being and collaboration becomes more necessary,

Pupils will continue to eat unhealthy packed lunches and visit the local chip shop,

A school's reputation can easily be lost through bad behavior on the buses. There is always a degree of uncertainty about the extent of power outside school and this will clarify that right.

This is not a case of novice heads or those with a poor track record and poor management skills being called to task. These are experienced heads,

There must be a strong suspicion that this is a ruse to increase the number of schools that can be turned into academies, so that the Prime Minister's target of 200 academies can be met.

This is very far from the Prime Minister's vision of schools being more independent from local authorities.

The numbers are in free fall and we're going to lose a generation of linguists.

They are having to spend far too much time on form-filling, bidding for different pots of money, responding to centrally-driven target-setting regimes instead of being given enough freedom and flexibility to be able to move their own school in the direction it needs to go.