Chris Husbands and Michael Arthur Higher education is changing – and at a dizzying speed. Universities now operate on a global canvas, and reputations are made (and lost) on a worldwide scale. Around the world, measures of quality – however…
Monthly Archives: November 2014
Why IOE and UCL have decided to merge
Tagged with: Chris Husbands, Michael Arthur, UCL-IOE merger
Posted in Further higher and lifelong education
Posted in Further higher and lifelong education
Upbeat about Sistema-inspired music programmes: how they are raising the bar for children in deprived areas
Picture credit: Kimberly Warner/BRAVO Youth Orchestras Andrea Creech El Sistema, the Venezuelan music education programme that claims to transform lives through intensive participation in orchestra and choir, has again been in the news. In a preview to his forthcoming book based…
Tagged with: Andrea Creech, El Sistema, music education
Posted in curriculum & assessment, Education policy, learning, Teaching
Posted in curriculum & assessment, Education policy, learning, Teaching
The London effect did not just happen without hard work
Chris Husbands For several years, the outstanding success of London Challenge has been a beacon for school improvers across the nation and beyond. The marked improvement in the performance of London secondary schools in the decade after 2002 has been…
Tagged with: Chris Husbands, Dominic Wyse, London Challenge, Simon Burgess
Posted in Education policy, Leadership and management
Posted in Education policy, Leadership and management
Education and the tyranny of numbers
Stephen J Ball We are now, as Jenny Ozga aptly puts it, ‘governed by numbers’. Numbers in different aspects of our lives rate, compare and allocate us to categories. Numbers define our worth, measure our effectiveness, and in a myriad…
Tagged with: examinations, statistics, Stephen Ball
Posted in Education policy, Social sciences and social policy
Posted in Education policy, Social sciences and social policy
Your vocabulary aged 40 depends on how much you read as a teenager
Originally posted on The Conversation Alice Sullivan Reading for pleasure as a child has been powerfully linked in research to the development of vocabulary and maths skills up to the age of 16. But does reading still have a part…
Tagged with: cohort studies, Reading
Posted in Childhood & early education, Social sciences and social policy
Posted in Childhood & early education, Social sciences and social policy
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