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How to make a strong college application
How can students make sure that their sixth form application is as strong as possible and does justice to their achievements, interests and aspirations? If you are in Year 11, you need to be thinking about where you want to … Continue reading
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Tagged Colleges, Education, information advice and guidance, Sixth form, Sixth form college, young people
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Russell Group university progression: dispelling the myths
Since the Russell group of universities started publishing their ‘Informed Choices’ guide and launched the concept of facilitating A-level subjects, their advice has often been misrepresented or misunderstood. ‘Informed choices’ is a helpful contribution to advising and guiding students about sensible subject choices … Continue reading
Demonstrating high achievement in comprehensive settings
Comprehensive schools and colleges can face a challenge when trying to show how well their highest achieving students do and how many of them there are. They can suffer from ‘bog standard’ syndrome and the assumption that all their students … Continue reading
Posted in Education, NewVIc
Tagged A levels, comprehensive education, Education, Newham Sixth Form College, NewVIc, selection
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My NewVIc Story: Supreet Kaur
I am currently the Lead Academic Mentor at Newham Sixth Form College (NewVIc) where I am responsible for mentoring students from art, media and IT courses, helping them develop independent learning skills. I work with a fantastic team of 6 … Continue reading
Post-16 performance tables: taking the long view
The recently published 2014 post-16 performance tables show that A-level students at Newham Sixth Form College (NewVIc) improved their performance faster than the national average for the second year running. They also show that our advanced vocational students performed better … Continue reading
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Tagged A levels, Education, Newham Sixth Form College, NewVIc, performance tables, vocational education
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NewVIc: highest number of disadvantaged students going to university
Which sixth forms help the most disadvantaged students progress to university? The latest university progression data has just been published. This relates to sixth form students who completed their advanced qualifications in 2012. The figures include the numbers of students … Continue reading
Colleges and violent extremism
I work in a large inner city sixth form college with 2,600 students in London’s 3rd most socio-economically deprived borough where unemployment, poverty and homelessness are more common than average. Another way of describing the college is that it is also … Continue reading
Where do all our A level students go?
NewVIc’s A-level university progression suggests that sixth forms which set excessively high A-level entry requirements are missing out on many students who could progress to higher education, including to the most selective universities. I have already posted here about the university destinations of the … Continue reading
Vocational education: rejecting the narrative of failure
According to Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector, we have a ‘lamentable record on vocational education’ which is ‘failing to deliver the needs of both young people and society’. Criticism of vocational courses is echoed by many, including the Labour Party in … Continue reading
Investing in East London’s future
Our annual analysis of the university destinations of our students always makes impressive reading. While we can’t guarantee that every former NewVIc student who progresses to a degree level course will get a graduate level job in a few years’ … Continue reading
The bitter fruits of autonomy
In his speech on 12th November, schools reform minister Nick Gibb restated some of the key themes of this government’s education strategy and expressed his delight at seeing the ‘full fruits of autonomy in all their vivid abundance.’ To those … Continue reading
Posted in Education policy, NewVIc
Tagged autonomy, Democracy, Education, marketisation, selection, university progression
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My NewVIc story: Joseph Toonga
My NewVIc story: Dancer and choreographer Joseph Toonga, NewVIc class of 2008. I attended Newham sixth form college (NewVIc) from 2005 – 2008. In my time at NewVIc I set up my dance company called Just Us Dance Theatre with Ricardo … Continue reading
My NewVIc story: Rumana Ali
Rumana Ali, NewVIc class of 2014 and former Plashet school student. Achieved A-level grades A*A*A in History, English literature, Government and politics and an A in AS Economics and has progressed to study for a BA in History at St … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Guest blogs, NewVIc
Tagged extended project, honours programme, Newham Sixth Form College, NewVIc, NewVIc alumni, Oxford university, Plashet school, Russell group, Shaftesbury primary school, St. Hilda's college Oxford, University College London (UCL), university progression
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Comparing like with like
There’s been a lot of hype about the A-level results of our neighbouring 16-18 free school and there’s no doubt that their students have achieved some very good outcomes. But their claim to have the “best ever results by a … Continue reading
How to choose a sixth form
During year 11 you are free to apply to any sixth form you want, whether it’s a sixth form college, further education college or school sixth form. If your own school has a sixth form, there is absolutely no requirement … Continue reading
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Tagged Colleges, Education, information advice and guidance, Sixth form, young people
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