“Tesco boss raps school standards” reports the BEEB, and Terry Leahy is quoted as saying he believes employers “pick up the pieces”. Addressing the self-titled “industry experts on international food and grocery retailing and supply chain” at the IGD convention, he explains that, “As the largest private employer in the country, we depend on high [...]
The BBC today report that Facebook ‘cuts student drop-outs’. But does it? Is there any evidence for this claim? No and we’ll show you why. Firstly, this article isn’t really about the this claim at all as only 2 passages out of 18 in the article refer to it: 1. “”There has been a significant [...]
“Union leader calls for review of mobile phone ban in classrooms”, says the Observer. Really? Perhaps so. After all, the article later declares: “In schools where children were provided with handheld computers with phone and internet access to use in lessons, teachers have reported very little misuse, according to David Whyley, the headteacher consultant for [...]
Ahem, not really. This post will set out an assessment of the methodology of the Times Good University Guide 2010. The aim is to show how judgements of quality based on these tables are untenable. More seriously, it highlights the muddle that the current all-encompassing scientific paradigm so beloved of Government has landed us in. [...]
Oxford to defer use of A* grade for admissions? Why bother? Still doesn’t deal with the more fundamental issue of whether grades can be awarded fairly. Changing the grades won’t alter the fact that the whole grading system of A levels and so on is ripe for reform. As argued before on EducationState, the awarding [...]
Grading? Grading takes many forms: A to Z, percentages or in Higher Education 1st, 2:1, 2:2 and so on. They are used as proxies for student’s ability (quality) and enable the making of judgements or decisions. Such grades are generated in interviews, examinations, appraisals, observation and other ways. Fairness? The meaning of fairness is far [...]
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