Chris Husbands. One of the universities I worked in ran an advertising campaign for which the strapline was ‘It’s not the letters after your name that matter: it’s the name after your letters’. At the time, it attracted a good…
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AHELO, Agoodbye: league tables, power and the market
Tagged with: AHELO, League tables, OECD
Posted in Chris Husbands, Further higher and lifelong education, International comparisons
Posted in Chris Husbands, Further higher and lifelong education, International comparisons
Students, Computers and Learning: we could do so much better, and here’s how
Rose Luckin The 200 page report published this week by the OECD is packed with tables and figures that tell a story about the state of 15-year-olds’ educational attainment in maths, reading, science and digital skills in 2012 across the participating…
Tagged with: computers and learning, education technology, OECD, Rose Luckin
Posted in ICT in education, International comparisons
Posted in ICT in education, International comparisons
Introducing East Asian teaching methods into western schools: is it a good idea?
John Jerrim. About six months ago I released a paper discussing the reason for East Asian success in the OECD PISA survey of 15 year olds’ skills and knowledge in reading, mathematics and science, focussing largely upon the role of home background and…
Tagged with: East Asia, Mathematics, OECD, PISA
Posted in Education policy, Evidence-based policy, International comparisons, Schools
Posted in Education policy, Evidence-based policy, International comparisons, Schools
A National Teaching Service Mr Mainwaring?
Chris Husbands The news of a proposed re-make of Dad’s Army preceded by only a few days David Cameron’s announcement of a National Teaching Service: a ‘corps’ of ‘elite teachers’ to be deployed into ‘failing schools’ at short notice. Both…
Tagged with: OECD, regional commissioners, school improvement
Posted in Education policy, Schools, Teachers and teaching assistants
Posted in Education policy, Schools, Teachers and teaching assistants
The election battleground: heat and light – and the basics
Chris Husbands The party conference season is over and it is election-preparation time: before the end of the school year, voters will have gone to the polls and a new government will be in office. There are sharp choices to…
