John White. A central aim of Education Secretary Justine Greening is ‘enabling children to reach their full potential’ . The idea comes into many of her speeches. It appeared in the DfE’s response to the head of OFSTED Amanda Spielman’s…
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Helping the Education Secretary reach her full potential
Tagged with: IQ testing, John White, teacher education, teaching and learning
Posted in Childhood & early education, Teaching, learning, curriculum & assessment
Posted in Childhood & early education, Teaching, learning, curriculum & assessment
Back to teacher development’s big questions: what is education for?
John White. The idea of a National Education Service (NES) is gaining speed. It’s described as “a scheme to join up the disparate elements of education, providing free lifelong learning from nurseries through schools to universities and adult education”. This…
Talking their language: how London’s university-school partnerships are helping to tackle the MFL crisis
Caroline Conlon. In the ‘Modern Foreign Languages Pedagogy Review’ published last November by the Teaching Schools Council for the Department for Education, Review chair Ian Baukham paints a bleak picture of language learning in England’s secondary schools. He says, ‘… currently fewer than half…
Tagged with: Caroline Conlon, Modern foreign languages, national curriculum, teacher education
Posted in Teachers, Teaching, learning, curriculum & assessment
Posted in Teachers, Teaching, learning, curriculum & assessment
Teacher supply: Government needs to take responsibility
Joseph Mintz. According to a Department for Education (DfE) spokesperson, “the biggest threat to teacher recruitment is that the teaching unions and others use every opportunity to talk down teaching as a profession, continually painting a negative picture of England’s…
Queen’s Anniversary Prize: a time for reflection
Chris Husbands. I’ve already written about my own departure from the IOE – leaving, in just a few weeks’ time, to become Vice Chancellor at Sheffield Hallam University. As we all know, leaving one job and starting another is a…
Tagged with: Chris Husbands, educational research, higher education, Queen's Anniversary Prize, teacher education
Posted in Education policy
Posted in Education policy
