Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | New pay rise targets for teachers
If this is what the DfEE actually wants, as opposed to an opening negotiating position, then then the NUT was right to brand performance related pay (PRP), payment by results'. It is perhaps significant that the government was at pains initially to insist that PRP would not be tied to improved exam results or better behaviour by pupils.

Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Judith Williamson: Shopping mall studies
This should be read alongside Wolf, A. (2002). Does education matter? London, Penguin. which is an extended critique of current education policy and the assumptions that appear to underlie it. Williamson's point about social inequality shows how spurious the meritocratic arguments of New Labour really are.

allAfrica.com: Education - Top News
This is a salutary reminder for those that argue that globalisation is changing the way that teachers' work is controlled that there are many societies where this is not the case.

EducationGuardian.co.uk | eG weekly | A costly free lunch