Andrea Creech. The National Music Plan (NMP) aims to enable children from all backgrounds and every part of England to have the opportunity to learn a musical instrument; to make music with other people; to learn to sing; and to…
Monthly Archives: April 2016
Some are more equal than others: who is music education for?
Tagged with: Andrea Creech, equality in education, music hubs, School music
Posted in Arts in education, Education policy, Teaching, learning, curriculum & assessment
Posted in Arts in education, Education policy, Teaching, learning, curriculum & assessment
From WhatsApp to Wind in the Willows: the digital v print debate
Sally Perry ‘All reading can be done on iPads’ At the ATL teachers’ union conference earlier this month the third motion on the final day called for an end to cuts and closures in school libraries. The motion was supported…
Posted in Literacy, Research matters
A profession of uncertainty: the Reggio Emilia image of the ‘rich’ teacher
Peter Moss. In last month’s blog, I introduced a new book about Loris Malaguzzi, one of the 20th century’s great educationalists, whose legacy is the world-famous municipal schools of Reggio Emilia in Northern Italy. One of Malaguzzi’s great achievements was…
Tagged with: early childhood education, Malaguzzi, Peter Moss, Reggio Emilia
Posted in Childhood & early education, Teaching, learning, curriculum & assessment
Posted in Childhood & early education, Teaching, learning, curriculum & assessment
Remembering Belsen – do we know what we are forgetting?
Andy Pearce. On 15 April 1946, nearly three-quarters of the 9,000 Holocaust survivors housed in the Displaced Persons camp at Bergen-Hohne made the short journey to the former site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. The occasion was the first anniversary…
What your choice of degree means for your future earnings
Francis Green. The mass expansion of higher education, the arrival of high fees in English and Welsh universities, the ongoing technology revolution and the Great Recession have pushed and pulled the graduate labour market in contrasting directions over the last…
Tagged with: Francis Green, graduate earnings, IFS, Labour economics
Posted in Education policy, Further higher and lifelong education
Posted in Education policy, Further higher and lifelong education
