The eighth group of interim reports was on the theme of Primary teachers: training, development, leadership and workforce reform, and was published April 18, 2008. This group consisted of:
• Research Survey 6/2 - Primary schools: the professional environment, Liz Jones, Andy Pickard and Ian Stronach.
• Research Survey 6/3 - Primary teachers: initial teacher education, continuing professional development and school leadership development, Olwen McNamara, Rosemary Webb and Mark Brundrett.
• Research Survey 6/4 - Primary workforce management and reform, Hilary Burgess.
A selection of press coverage of this eighth release of interim reports (18.04.08):
• The Independent: '"Moral panic" and "policy hysteria" harming primary schools, report says' - Sarah Cassidy.
• The Independent: 'Fads, and a sense of failure'
• Times Educational Supplement: 'A marking revolution' - Warwick Mansell.
• Times Educational Supplement: 'Strategy without style'
• Press Association: 'Special needs pupils "need more time with teachers"' - Tim Ross.
• Press Association: 'Researchers lament impersonal primary education' - Tim Ross.
• Guardian: 'Government policy has created "impersonalised education"' - Anthea Lipsett.
• Daily Mail: 'Over a third of bosses say staff lack the three Rs'
• Literacy Trust: 'New reports from the Primary Review'
• NUT: press release on primary workforce reform
• Yorkshire Post: 'Children "reduced to status of targets"'
