Tag Archives: OECD Unfortunately Jay could not be with us tonight, which means Matthew and Steve get to ramble a bit more and start to imagine how we might reconfigure education for a more equitable system. Probably beyond our capacity to think clearly but you have got to start somewhere. Matthew, in the de Bono tradition, lobs Steve… (Apologies to Ang Lee) Discussing a paper Steve presented at a Cambridge University conference, well it impressed Matthew anyway! D(r)aft curriculum reform from the English Secretary of State http://www.education.gov.uk/schools/teachingandlearning/curriculum/nationalcurriculum/a00210036/sosletter Jeevan Vasagar, Guardian Education Editor: “Michael Gove’s curriculum attacked by expert who advised him: Andrew Pollard says education secretary’s proposed changes are too prescriptive and ‘fatally…  Government ministers getting to grips with these computer thingies, way back when. Tonight we break out into a cold sweat as we praise the Wackoidal One for raising the profile of computer science and starting a new curriculum debate. Interesting programme on the BBC about it, “Material World”. Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0194kz4#synopsis Includes an interview with the fruity…  Steve, Matthew and Jay are, once again joined by literacy expert Anne Glennie. Tonight we take a whistle stop tour of this week in education and then settle on a debate which many educators feel volubly passionate about (some others not so much). Is handwriting a dying art? If it is, who cares?…  Image from Oast House Archive In the week Gove gets his Newton and his laws of thermodynamics mixed up, an exam board produces an unanswerable physics A-level question. Not the first exam cock-up of the season. Does this have anything to do with privatised exam boards competing for business? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-13877718 The exam system lights Matthew’s… |
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