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Rethinking Qualifications? It’s About Time
For the second year running our school assessment system is up in the air, for totally understandable reasons. A Levels were explicitly cancelled but the Government seemed incapable of giving a clear answer about this month’s BTec’s, the vocational equivalent. … Continue reading
Posted in Education, skills
Tagged A levels, BTec, Charles Clarke, David Goodhart, David Sainsbury
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Why Unicorns Aren’t the Answer
I’ve railed against pinkification, and the ‘gift of pink’ in the past – especially at this time of year when presents, notably toys and clothes, are to the fore for Christmas purchase. I hadn’t realised that books, too, come with … Continue reading
Investing in Education and the Levelling Up Agenda
Early years provision has suffered during austerity, and is continuing to see cutbacks, as Polly Toynbee pointed out last week. Yet children who fall behind at the outset of their education will find it very difficult to catch up later. … Continue reading
Posted in Education
Tagged Augar Review, Further Education, social mobility
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Reflections on a Mad Week in Higher Education
Readers from the UK can hardly fail to have noticed the confusion across the HE sector caused by last week’s A level ‘results’. I recall how many people had been voicing fears during the past months that the disadvantaged would … Continue reading
Uncertain Times
We live currently in a world of great and sometimes terrifying strangeness, where the rules and customs by which we have lived for so long have been turned upside down. Some people may be focussing on whether they need to … Continue reading
Posted in Communicating Science, Education
Tagged Clarissa Farr, COVID-19, politicians
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