Is someone please going to call time on the exam system? BBC News reports today that parents are now drugging their own children in the hope that they can succeed in school examinations. Now who’s at fault here? The notion of exams and their link to status and affluence is peddled by the Government and […]
An EducationState reading of Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed has provoked a debate. A debate regarding the extent to which we (teachers) can interfere in the education of Others (students). One group takes the view that true educatin is only possible through complete independence. The other groups sees this as impossibe, for the notion […]
Discussions here have led us to conclude that the school/college year needs to change. We believe terms should be scrapped or shortened. Semesters should stretch through the summer holidays, while teachers and students should be able to choose when they study. Summer course save on heating bills and result in a reduced carbon footprint. Being […]
If you ever wondered who is/was responsible for Education Policy in the UK then look no further than this man… Education Reform Lessons from England An Interview with Sir Michael Barber Publication Date: January 13, 2006 England’s education system has undergone rapid and ambitious reform in the past decade. In 1997, a newly-elected Labour government, […]
EducationState welcomes the £15 million hand-out awarded to FE Colleges in London. This will allow SMT’s to sweeten the pill that is redundancy and postpone the inevitable for another year. Such money, of course, does not come without strings and it was interesting to note the 1/3 of the cash was stumped up by the […]
The Case Against “Tougher Standards” By Alfie Kohn People who talk about educational “standards” use the term in different ways. Sometimes they’re referring to guidelines for teaching, the implication being that we should change the nature of instruction — a horizontal shift, if you will. (In the case of the standards drafted by the National […]
EducationState has discovered that New Labour seems to be adopting wholesale the reforms and innovations implemented in the USA during the 90’s. This is not new. It has been well-documented that the PR strategy of Mandelson and his cronies was taken almost ad verbatim from the successful focus group-led Clinton Presidential campaign and administration some […]
Education academic Professor Alan Smithers has said at the recent NUT conference that “unlike previous governments (New Labour) has taken upon itself responsibility for ‘delivery’ through targets and pressure from the centre. “Schools have been reduced almost to factories for producing test and exam scores. “But scores are not the product of education in the […]
An EducationState member has informed us that he has been accused of taking a bribe. The incident revolved around gifts being handed to an ESOL lecturer. Another class member has objected to the gifts claiming they were intended to curry favour and secure an exam pass. In this instance, the lecturer is clear that this […]
Following policy changes and mismanagement, a London College has released details of its voluntary redundancy package. Apart from appearing to be a smack in the teeth for all of those who’ve sweated blood and tears for its students, it also discriminates against members of staff who’ve not reached middle age, as EducationState understands that the […]
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