National Curriculum yadda,yadda,yadda
News today that a new curriculum will as they put it ‘excite learning’. Really? Sounds like the end is nigh for the Curriculum. If, with all the changes that have taken place, it still isn’t ‘exciting’...
View ArticleThe Countryside Alliance Foundation
“The Countryside Alliance Foundation launches outdoor education report. Outdoor education is a subject close to my heart, one we believe is vitally important if we’re to reverse the decline in access...
View ArticleElection 2010 Education wishlist
In “Ten education issues the new government should address“, former director of the Institute of Education (doesn’t say which one) Peter Mortimore tells us his wishlist for the next government. We also...
View ArticleHow “facts” do not a good education make: Michael Gove and the Curriculum Review
This week we heard that Michael Gove is launching a curriculum review, in order to create a return to more “traditional” teaching. Quite apart from the dubious aim of the review, the enormous irony of...
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