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More area reviews?
More area reviews of post-16 education? We’ve only just got through the last lot and that took up loads of everyone’s time for very little benefit. Surely this can’t be a serious suggestion… Well, it might not be guaranteed to … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Education policy
Tagged Area-based Reviews, collaboration, Colleges, efficiency, partnership, quality, school sixth forms, schools, Sixth form, sufficiency
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Your dogma, my principles.
Simplex and Sapiens are discussing the government’s plan to open more selective schools. Simplex: Our mission is to build a country that works for everyone. Sapiens: Sounds like a good starting point. Sim: Yes, it’s a vision of a truly … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Education policy, Politics
Tagged comprehensive education, dogma, Education, grammar schools, principle, schools, selection
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The challenge of small sixth forms.
The Department for Education has recently published new advice for academies intending to make significant changes. Amongst other things, the document requires them to make a full business case if they wish to add sixth form provision. This is a … Continue reading
Is collaboration the solution or the problem?
‘Collaboration between schools is now seen as an important way to improve educational performance yet little is known definitively about what impact this has for improving pupil attainment’. An interesting point which may well be worth looking into and luckily … Continue reading
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Tagged collaboration, competition, CSMRE, Education, education system, marketisation, partnership, research, schools
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France: “teachers need to resist”
Following the terrorist outrages of November 13th , French sociologist Francois Dubet reflected on the Café Pedagogique website on the impact of such atrocities on the work of schools and on the role of schools in the aftermath of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Education, France, Francois Dubet, schools, Social cohesion, violent extremism
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Keri Facer and the future-building school
In her brilliant book Learning Futures – Education, technology and social change (2011) Professor Keri Facer suggests that we should be creating what she calls future-building schools rather than future-proof schools based on equipping young people to compete in the global economy. Keri … Continue reading
Unlimited potential (part 2)
Unlimited potential (part 2) Part 2 of my chapter from The ins and outs of selective secondary schools (Civitas, March 2015) 5. Selection at 16 and beyond There is a strong case for extending the comprehensive ideal beyond 16, even … Continue reading
