DfE under fire for promoting training events run by external adviser’s private company
A new Department for Education webpage, highlighting government-funded training events on offer to schools through a private company owned by its best-known external adviser on primary literacy, has been strongly criticised.
Last Friday, the DfE published a page headlined “Get support with teaching phonics and early reading”, highlighting training on offer from a company owned by the phonics trainer and former headteacher Ruth Miskin.
It was one of a host of new DfE webpages, also published that day, flagging up support services on offer for schools, from a range of organisations. The phonics page, however, seems to be the only one to be generating controversy so far, among sources who contacted Education Uncovered.
The DfE page in question says: “The Ruth Miskin Read Write Inc. programme helps schools improve literacy through the teaching of phonics and early reading.”
Under “What you can get,” the page states: “The 2 year literacy professional development programme includes:
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By Warwick Mansell for EDUCATION UNCOVERED
Published: 27 September 2018
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