Last week I finished my piece by talking about how necessary it is that we have an education system that is really focused on children, on their interests, and on their understanding of themselves. This week I will pick this up in considering the role of curriculum and exams in removing theory from how education [...]
As a consequence of moving across the country I’ve had to remove myself from a number of mailing lists in Merseyside, but happily I hadn’t left all of them, because it meant I got to hear some excellent news yesterday. Councillors on the Wirral have done a major about face and reversed plans to close [...]
I’ve been very late flagging this up because of the little matter of moving from one side of the country to the other, but you may or may not know there is a strike going on. Staff at Tower Hamlets College, an F.E. College serving some of the poorest people in the country, are on [...]
A-Level Results in England and Wales were released to students and the wider public today, indicating a rise in both the number of A-grades and the number of overall passes. Now, no doubt this will be claimed by some as a fall in standards, and by others as a major achievement. There will be the traditional [...]
I know that several these points are hardly original, but I have been sharply reminded of these issues and the problems they cause in recent weeks. A few weeks ago, speaking to two senior lecturers, one formerly ex-Oxford and Liverpool University and one currently of Manchester, I learned something that might initially seem counter-intuitive. Both [...]
The integration of minority communities, particularly Muslim minorities, into majority British society has been a hotly contested subject in recent years. For all the attention it has received in the press since 7/7, however, the role of faith schools in hindering integration in multicultural societies has been overlooked too long. Last year, the NUT finally [...]
