Posted by Editors EdReform, Exams, In The News, Policy, Schools, Teacher Training, Teaching Sunday, November 20th, 2016
“Once charismatic qualification has become an impersonal quality, which can be transmitted through various and at first purely magic means, it has begun its transformation from a personal gift that can be tested and proven but not transmitted and acquired, into a capacity that, in principle, can be taught and learned. Thus charismatic qualification can […]
Posted by Editors Andreas Schleicher, Big Data, EdReform, EduBusiness, Educationalists, Exams, In The News, OECD, PISA, Schools, Teaching, Technology, Testing, Waldorf Sunday, June 28th, 2015
Andreas Schleicher works out of the OECD in Paris, and is best known for the the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), “a triennial international survey which aims to evaluate education systems worldwide by testing the skills and knowledge of 15-year-old students.” According to a January 2010 presentation given to the Quality of Childhood Group […]
Posted by Editors Edmond Holmes, EdReform, Exams, In The News, Merit Pay, Policy, Standards, Working Conditions Friday, June 19th, 2015
Below is an excerpt from the writings of Edmond Holmes a notable Irish educator and former Chief Inspector of Schools in England of a century or so ago. In What Is And What Might Be: A Study Of Education In General And Elementary Education In Particular, 1911, Holmes retells the story of the Revised Code […]
Posted by Editors GCSEs, In The News, Policy, Schools, Tories Thursday, September 20th, 2012
With much anticipation, we listened yesterday afternoon to England Education Secretary, Michael Gove’s, statement to the House of Commons on his proposed reforms to the current nationwide GCSE examination. We were listening not only for the predictable bitchiness that accompanies any statement Gove makes to the Commons but also for anything that educationalists like ourselves […]
Posted by Editors EdReform, Events, Exams, HE, In The News, Labour, Policy, Politics, Schools, Teaching Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
For those who think Gove or any other politician is the answer to our educational problems (whatever they may be), perhaps excerpts from the text of the speech by Prime Minister James Callaghan, at a foundation stone-laying ceremony at Ruskin College, Oxford, on October. 18 1976 will make you think again. The speech proved to […]
Posted by Sheira Gorris A Levels, EduBusiness, GCSEs, In The News Saturday, August 27th, 2011
Following yesterday’s revelation that female GCSE pupils have widened the gender gap further, FDM Group is urging young women to consider taking IT related A levels. It has been revealed that more than one in four female pupils were awarded an A or A* at GCSE level this summer, expanding the academic bridge between the […]
Posted by Editors EdReform, Exams, In The News, Pasi Sahlberg, Politics, Research, Schools, Teaching Monday, March 21st, 2011
In the following Boston Globe article, Learning from Finland How one of the world’s top educational performers turned around, Pasi Sahlberg of Finland’s Ministry of Education and Culture and former Washington-based World Bank education specialist illustrates very succinctly why current UK and US education policy is on the wrong track. “IF AMERICANS harbored any doubts […]
Posted by Editors A Levels, In The News, Media Watch, Private Schools Monday, February 7th, 2011
…because it discriminates against those without the cultural, social or economic resources to benefit from them i.e .those from non-fee paying schools. Speaking in The Times, Dr. Helen Wright, the president of the Girls Association of independent private schools for rich kids, believes that “all universities should have entrance tests rather than offer places based […]
