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- Creating the conditions for a successful FE system April 29, 2018
- 2017 sees further increase in sixth form student research. March 19, 2018
- Pathologically wrong: Humours and Miasma. March 18, 2018
- My islands – by Line Mariani Playfair March 11, 2018
- Sixth form hopes for 2018. January 1, 2018
- Top posts of 2017. January 1, 2018
- The narrative of the ‘poor bright child’. December 30, 2017
- Education is a human right December 10, 2017
- ‘What if?’ – dystopias in fiction. December 3, 2017
- Learning through conflict. November 19, 2017
- The East End’s ‘engine of progression’. November 5, 2017
- Being honoured November 4, 2017
- NewVIc class of 2017 progress to university. October 29, 2017
- L’innovation pedagogique October 28, 2017
- Oxbridge admissions – time for action. October 24, 2017
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Creating the conditions for a successful FE system
This week saw the launch of The FE and Skills System, a study by The Policy Consortium. Subtitled ‘The consequences of policy decisions – lessons for policymakers and stakeholders’, this thorough survey reaches deep into the heart of FE; drawing … Continue reading
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Tagged Colleges, Education, further education, policy, Policy Consortium, policy volatility, Tony Davis
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2017 sees further increase in sixth form student research.
The steady rise in Extended Project Qualification (EPQ) entries in England’s sixth forms suggests that student research is increasingly valued. 8% of all advanced sixth form completers in publicly funded sixth forms are entered for it, however many are studying … Continue reading
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Tagged extended project, London, school sixth forms, Sixth form, Sixth form college, student masterpiece, student research
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Sixth form hopes for 2018.
I’ve been posting new year’s wishes for sixth form education since January 2015. This started with 5 ‘modest, realistic and realisable’ hopes. By 2016 the list had been cut to 4 and was then further reduced to 3 a year … Continue reading
The narrative of the ‘poor bright child’.
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life. Jane Addams. Earlier this month the government announced a £23m ‘future talent fund’ targeted at ‘bright’ … Continue reading
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Tagged Education, Equality, Future Talent Fund, high, NewVIc, selection, Social mobility, university progression
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Education is a human right
We mark Human Rights Day on December 10th and this year it is 69 years since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted in Paris at a United Nations (UN) General Assembly in a post-conflict spirit of international … Continue reading
Learning through conflict.
Education, like all human endeavour, requires conflict, struggle, challenge, disagreement, argument, difference, dialectic, dialogue. If we want to learn or make anything new, we need to reach towards what we don’t know, to seek out the unknown. Education, and life … Continue reading
The East End’s ‘engine of progression’.
The East End’s ‘engine of progression’. In September, the Mail Online and others published articles extolling the achievements of the ‘Eton of the East End’, one of the highly selective sixth forms in Newham which have opened in recent years. … Continue reading
