What did he really say?

Writing pupil reports, particularly for primary school teachers, is a very long and time consuming job. The advent of computers can make it easier - one of the options being to use software that provides a "cut and paste" of different appropriate phrases/descriptors for the pupils achievements.

The front page of this week's Barking and Dagenham Recorder (this is one of the local newspapers covering the local authority where I work, and which neighbours my home authority of Havering) is headlined: "£270m boost for schools". This headlines a report of the final sign off by central government of the local authority's Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme. The programme will involve pretty much a re-build of the authority's secondary schools and the installation of a new IT infrastructure.

The newspaper's report ends:

Roger Luxton, the council's corporate director of children's services, said: "BSF promises to provide excellent education to give all children the best possible start in life by way of raising teaching standards and pupil achievements in our secondary schools".

Now, does that actually say anything? It reads like a cut and paste of strap lines from different government initiatives in education ... and makes about as much sense.