When it comes to jargon, the Building Schools for the Future programme in England takes a lot of beating. I’ve railed against the Department for Education for its awful predilection for driving agendas forward and delivering targets or whatever, but really they’re just amateurs at this stuff.
Read MoreTo put it Bluntly: Ofsted jargon revisited
Derek Blunt takes issue with inspectors' jargon. Should you ever find yourself looking for examples of what Kenneth Hudson referred to as “diseased English”, I think you could do worse than looking at Ofsted guidance or listening to Ofsted pronouncements. Ofsted is the name of the schools inspectorate in England,
Read MoreWhen it comes to PR, learn from the worst
At best, “corporate guff” deadens the senses of the reader, and is simply regarded as a written equivalent of background noise.
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The scream by Terry Freedman
7 Mistakes I Made As An Ed Tech Co-Ordinator #7: Not inventing jargon
Want to get ahead, possibly get awards, and get away with not informing anyone of anything remotely useful? This post will tell you how!
Read MoreTo put it Bluntly: Ofsted jargon
Derek Blunt takes issue with inspectors' jargon.
Read MoreComputational thinking? Algorithms? Why all the jargon?
The new Computing Programme of Study has been criticised not only for its content, but also for the terminology it uses. In particular, it speaks about “computational thinking”, “algorithms” and “decomposition”. “Surely”, the argument goes, “they could have used ordinary everyday language?”
Had “they” decided to do that, there would no doubt have had so many people panicking about it all. So, it’s a compelling suggestion. It just happens to be wrong.