Alice Bradbury If you want to change what teachers teach, should you change the curriculum, or change the assessment? For the last three years, all six-year-olds in England have had to take a Phonics Screening Check test, which they can…
Monthly Archives: September 2014
Conflicts of interest in academy schools are symptoms of a wider malaise
Toby Greany This post is co-published with The Conversation As part of its ongoing inquiry into academies and free schools, the Education Select Committee recently published a report that it had commissioned from Jean Scott and me on conflicts of interest in academies. We…
Let’s stand up for subjects
Michael Young and David Lambert Each curriculum subject contains a different way of understanding the world. Access to this ‘powerful knowledge’ for every pupil should form the basis for any curriculum. This is the central argument of our new book,…
What’s so special about running a university?
Paul Temple Is the management of universities much different to the management of other sorts of big, complex organisations? In my new book, The Hallmark University (IOE Press), I argue that it is (or should be) recognisably different – although the best-run…
Tagged with: HE management, HE marketplace, higher education, Paul Temple
Posted in Further higher and lifelong education, Leadership and management
Posted in Further higher and lifelong education, Leadership and management
Election silly season: is research an ornament, a luxury good or ammunition in a war?
Chris Brown As with many things in our Western consumer culture, research use may be conceived as an act of consumption. Correspondingly, research is often treated by its users as they would a consumer object, much like a coffee maker…
Tagged with: Chris Brown, education policy, research impact, Research matters, research-informed policy
Posted in Research matters
Posted in Research matters
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