Department for Education

though, which is...

For example, in 2007, the Department for Education released a report saying some schools in Britain are no longer teaching the Crusades or the Holocaust, lest it offend Muslim students.

Yes.

Whether it's people from the Islamic civilizations, the Muslim world, or if indeed you had 4 million French coming over here, given our thousand-year war with the French, if you suddenly tell them, actually, you guys are wrong about all of that, it's not evident to me that they're going to accept that.

Yeah.

So Oak was set up in 2020 as a pandemic response in England, and we became an arm's length body of the Department for Education.

So we're fully publicly funded here in England, and that happened in 2022.

So we now publish open license curricula and resources across subjects from primary through to key stage four, and approximately two thirds of teachers in England use at least

So we need to sort of learn about why was that.

But also, in the last 10 years, things have just changed so dramatically, haven't they? You know, since then, the golden thread has come out of the DfE, which is something I have been a strong supporter of in terms of the idea of a sort of an entitlement at every stage of your career in education to high quality support and development.

But, you know, that has brought significant changes in terms of how professional development is delivered and how it's experienced.

Plus the whole school landscape has changed a lot since then.

Yeah, I mean, we actually have quite eye-wateringly ambitious plans for engaging in multiple ways.

I'm trying not to just cross my fingers as I say this, because it's a small team at the Chartered College who are helping to support this.

It's not like having the machine of the DfE behind us as it has been with other things that I've chaired of this nature.

But I think there's just so much enthusiasm and lots of people offering their time and expertise for free that I think we will actually achieve this ambition.

And then by the point we get to the fourth element that we're just developing now, the online school, that will be exclusively online.

Our intention is to meet the standards of the DfE, so the online education accreditation standards, and that demands completely online delivery from what I've seen of the reports so far.

It's

interesting, because that's almost, I've sort of just answered the question, do you use ed tech in your pathways? So you've just answered that.

you do pull levers and nothing happens.

But we worked in the DfE because we had a plan, because we had a sexual state who was completely up for it.

I ran probably half the DFE, academies, free schools, private schools, school system, capital, a whole lot of other stuff.

It worked because I had the support of Michael and Cameron.

It also suggests that schools should be adopting and utilizing the IHRA's working definition of antisemitism, which conflates anti-Zionism with antisemitism.

The Department for Education has slapped all over its social media accounts that it wants to encourage debate in educational settings, presumably in relation to Israel and Gaza and not in relation to anti-Semitism, and so it, the DFV, will be backing teachers and school leaders with training, guidance and practical resources, giving them the confidence to lead these discussions well.

in other words the party of imperialism with its complicit racist hands stained in palestinian blood wants to make sure schools are pushing the correct view when it comes to discussions about genocide and that this is subordinate with labour party i e imperialist doctrine and the icing on the cake open the report go to page thirty and read the opening paragraph under the title british attitudes It reads thus, British attitudes relating to Jewish people and Israel show two broad trends.

Anti-Jewish attitudes are typically less prevalent and have remained more stable, whereas anti-Israel sentiments are more prevalent and have been increasing.

can you tell me a little more about the PGCE training at the moment and how particularly the implications of how consumer-gen AI tools have evolved over the last six, seven months with developing software solutions and considering that as an output versus just a piece of text or an image or a video?

The curriculum for initial teacher training is specified by the Department for Education.

They say what new teachers have to be able to do and they tell us what we need to cover in our courses and in their experience out in training schools.

This is the first academic year where there has been reference to technology in those requirements since 2012.