£357, 705.
The combined total of the salaries advertised in today's paper for the 12 members of staff vital to the vital Communications Team of the vital Government department known as Ofsted.
'engaging with external stakeholders... informing the public about our work... enhancing our brand.'
All totally vital.
Ah, how we love expressions like 'stakeholders' and 'enhancing our brand'. Worth £357, 705 alone, I'm sure you'll agree.
Now remind me that bit about there not being enough money to bring our wages in line with inflation, again...?
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I agree, but that's an average of just under £30k per job. In teachers' parlance "could do better" etc etc...
Hmmm - one was for £64,684 for a job 'developing and delivering multi-channel communications strategies to enhance the Ofsted brand among external stakeholders', a phrase which quite literally makes my blood pressure rise.
I'd like to know the point in enhancing the brand of Ofsted, it's not like there's loads of other school inspectors is it?
When did we GET spin doctors? Did Winston Churchill feel the need to employ so many Comms teams? Modern government spends a shitload (I believe that's the technical economic term) on them, and what do they do? Fanny around to very little purpose, as far as I can work out. I know, I used to live with one.
I'm with you. Anything with "develop" or "deliver", and especially "stakeholder" almost always means charlatanism. I've worked with people of that ilk. What the big salaries will mean is that the people doing the meaningless admin will be on peanuts.
Ooh, that was me. I was anonymous on my own blog. Well EXACTLY, Billy. If I could do even bigger caps, I would. Let me see if I can do it in bold - EXACTLY!
Quink, the whole thing is totally bogus. It riles me because they put such pressure on us and they are a waste of space.
>>>'developing and delivering multi-channel communications strategies to enhance the Ofsted brand among external stakeholders'
Cool - that's what I do! Can you send me the ad?
Yes, but if you got the job I’d have to kill you.
No really – you work in the private sector for a company whose aim is to make money and compete in the open market, one way of doing that is through media channels - what I totally object to is our money being spent on this wholly unnecessary spinning of stories to make it seem like the greedy mendacious careerist bastard politicians in the government actually have the faintest clue what they’re doing.
What do they actually DO? What are they for? It’s a game between the media and the government that a) has no real impact on people’s lives and b) drains resources from where they’re most needed. Would the country notice if Ofsted’s Comms Officers vanished tomorrow? Would they notice if the teachers vanished? I rest my case.
Be fair. That's one brand that could do with a lot of enhancing. You'd earn less spinning for Ian Brady.
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