Today’s Higher Education Policy Institute’s report “The Academic Experience of Students in English Universities” proves interesting reading, not least because it is guilty of oversimplification on a grandiose scale. You do not need a degree in statistics to know that if you find the average of two polar opposites you will be left with the [...]
It has been brought to our attention that following the lead of Harlow College, Barnet College in North London are also hoping to get one over their employees. It appears that relationships between senior managers and those lower down the managerial food chain have reached an all-time low. In “College staff ‘bullied’ into new contracts” [...]
The recent OECD report on Higher Degree Earning Power highlights a number of things. There is clearly a link between having an education and boosting your earning potential and this is something that Flash Gordon and his mob would have us believe unequivocally. However if you look a little deeper into the subject you will [...]
We at EducationState have started the new academic year with all the enthusiasm of the last but still face one wrongly-held belief after another. Take Literacy. Why can’t the powers that be understand that in today’s economy higher-level paper-based skills are not as crucial in the world of work as keyboard-based ones? Clearly, a well-structured [...]
It has been brought to our attention that major FE colleges are hurriedly closing classes and squeezing hours out of already over-worked teaching and admin staff. This has all been brought about by New Labour/Old Tories’ shift in policy away from adults and to the under 19′s. The rhetoric is that everyone should have a [...]
“Children starting school this month should be free from poverty by 2020 – or will they? The first weeks of school for many children should mark the beginning of a bright future, but for the 3.8 million children living in poverty in the UK, it instead reaffirms the cycle of poverty into which they are [...]
We return to our jobs for the forthcoming year and despite our long overdue breaks we feel jaded already. But do not fear, for you have a new PM: Flash Gordon. Our Flash is a jovial guy, even Thatcher gets a look in. What can we expect in Education from our new PM? Well, nothing. [...]
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