In the 1990s, grant-maintained schools were liberated, budget-wise from local authority top-slicing, particularly for INSET and consultancy (ground-breaking back then)!
Suddenly there was a lot more training money available – mainstream schools organised their own training programmes to support improvement plans and individuals’ development. Halcyon days! Up 500 per cent as a budget I remember in my then deputy’s job.
Many colleagues took advantage to study for “free fee-paid” part-time Master’s degrees – I did the same, graduating after three years in 1999 with the benefit of Accredited Prior Learning Assessment (APL).
At the graduation, I remember the vice-chancellor speaking to the assembled audience of proud families. The recipients of a wide range of qualifications in that audience came from, essentially, two areas of employment – health and education. The vice-chancellor’s message was that, although they were very different public services, both professions shared one common quality: they were the noblest contributors to our society in that both uniquely “gave back”. In very different ways they both made people into better people.
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