Oh dear, seems that the one of the union officials behind that presentation I posted earlier isn’t happy that it made its way on to Coffee House. Here’s an email exchange — leaked to me by a different Department for Education source — that starts off with one from that union official, Brian Lightman, to various union and departmental types. Names and email addresses have been omitted to protect the innocent:
From: Brian Lightman Sent: 18 May 2012 15:40 To: Numerous union officials and Department for Education staff Subject: RE: Education forum
Sorry – the first half of this message was sent before it was complete.
To all members of the Education Forum
I was shocked to discover via series of tweets sent out by @toryeducation that the presentation Mary Bousted and I used to initiate the discussion at Education Forum this week has been posted on a blog hosted by Spectator magazine with a commentary which I will leave you to read
http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/7854978/the-unions-lazy-opposition-to-schools-reform.thtml
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