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Read Frank’s thoughts and opinions on the latest news and developments in education.
Choices a poem by Barry Norris, award winning poet and brother of Frank
the space in which a child can grow the hole through which a child must go the height to which a mind can reach the syllabus to learn and teach the courage of a difficult truth the accelerated flight from youth the beauty of discordant song the rigidities of right and...
My comments on the disaster facing poorer students over the next two weeks
Featured in the Sunday Times.
Time-Travelling Victorian Inspector’ by Barry Norris, former senior HMI with Estyn
I worked as a HM Inspector in the Welsh inspectorate from 1991 to 2020 and I was the lead officer for inspection policy from 2010 onwards. From that perspective, it is intriguing to compare and contrast the inspectorate today with the inspectorate in the past, and to...