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If there’s one issue on which Mumsnet users all tend to agree, it’s the importance of education. Not all of them would necessarily say that ‘education’ and ‘schooling’ are exactly the...
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BCF – Investigating Knowledge and the Curriculum – Event Report
ºÚÁÏÍø911's British Curriculum Forum (BCF)Â held its launch on Saturday June 18th 2016. Over the last decade we have witnessed the radical transformation of the British educational landscape. This BC...
Localism in Education: A Reflection on the EU Referendum
In the aftermath of the EU referendum the BBC has published two graphs revealing the English regions where votes were highest for the leave and remain camps. The region topping the leave vote was...
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Education, history and democracy
Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email [email protected] for details of how to register onsite.This is the launch event for the newly...
What’s really inside the maths cupboard? Developing terminology for ‘manipulatives’
When I told teaching colleagues I was thinking about ‘manipulatives’, there was a sense we all knew what this meant: the resources in our maths cupboard. This seems at odds with what has been...
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Reimagining Further Education
Reimagining Further Education is a one-day conference on Wednesday 29 2016, 9:30am-4pm at Birmingham City UniversityProgrammeOn 29 June 2016, Birmingham City University’s Centre for the Study...
Postgraduate Forum Series – Midlands: Dilemmas in Educational Research
This event is now fully booked, however there are still bursary places available. Please complete the application by the deadline.Who are these events for? These symposia are for postgraduate...
BREXIT – initial thoughts on effects on our schools
Alea iacta est, the die is cast! With 5am last Friday morning it was obvious that a majority (51.9%) of the UK electorate had voted for BREXIT. By lunchtime it was clear what BREXIT means for the...
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First thoughts on Brexit
So the country has voted to leave the EU. The results show we are split on the issue, by region, by age and by economic prosperity. If early reporting is right, and 70% of the young voted to stay...
Continue reading blog postTelegraph Festival of Education 2016
23rd-24th June 2016 – Wellington College, BerkshireThe Telegraph Festival of Education brings together the very best of education’s most forward thinking advocates, practitioners of change and...
The Referendum – Letter from a school boy
When I was at school in the 1960’s my class were not allowed to study history.  Because I was in the bottom stream of a grammar school (that’s another story!), conventional history was...
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Yesterdays and tomorrows: what the referendum says about education
In one sense, of course, it has nothing to do with education – certainly not with schools. The EU referendum may be more important than a General Election but education policy is not a...
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