GCSE reform – looking forward to a rosy past
Dr Mary Bousted from the National Education Union on why GCSEs have had their day.
It’s time to rethink how we teach our children
GCSE results this week will include all of the usual highs and lows, with students exceeding, meeting and some sadly missing their expectations and ambitions. The work they have put in and the teaching and support they have received should be celebrated particularly in this most disrupted year. At the Association of Colleges (AOC) we’ll […]
Teach children about British Empire, ‘warts and all’
“Taking some of the heat out of the debates we’re currently having about history, race and identity.”
Outdated and ill-equipped: Why education must reform
In a reappraisal of the education system is now on the horizon, and what would a change in direction look like?
Not-very-national curriculum relaunched
Michael Gove’s revised national curriculum is being unveiled in full today – but his focus on fractions for five-year-olds is being overshadowed by concerns about its content, reach and implementation.
Gove defends ‘Mr Men’ speech: ‘I have every right’
Michael Gove has insisted he has the right to force children away from popular books like Twilight in the search for “higher standards”.
Michael Gove’s ‘anti-Mr Men’ speech in full
Education secretary Michael Gove has launched a scathing attack on teachers’ enthusiasm for providing pupils with ‘relevant’ material, as he prepares for a major overhaul of the national curriculum. Read it in full here.
