I am an inveterate listener to Radio 4, but I have to bite my lip all the time when I hear reports of the powers-that-be in many walks of life wheeling out ideas which have already been whold at least once in my lifetime.
What's all this pants about not giving children formal exams before they are 16, but letting teachers give them ad-hoc tests as and when required? Do you know, that's just what used to happen when I was at school 50 years ago.
How often are changes in the way we do things really necessary, and how often are they down to the politicians desire to make a mark? Or even just the old saw, "when in doubt reorganise"?
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*chortle* ... at work, we're back to the let's-put-all-the-business-analysts-on-one-set-
of-desks idea that didn't work three years ago. Next thing you know someone will mention lines-of-code as a good programming metric!
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