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A-level Results Day 2018: Some Reflections.
With the last envelope collected, torn open and contents revealed, I wanted to reflect on my experiences and thoughts surrounding A-level Results Day 2018. I am not wanting …
Goodbye, Park High
“Goodbye to all my friends The time has come for me to go. Goodbye to all the souls who sailed with me so long. The coffee pot is cold …
Exam clashes, crashes and conflicts: some thoughts on the 2018 A-level exam season.
What on earth happened to this year’s GCE A-level exam timetable? I do not remember ever having such a challenging exam series, not even at University. I am not ‘anti-exam’, …
The problem of linear A-levels and how cognitive load theory may help us.
Whilst I have many anxieties about moving to linear A-levels (see previous blog), I think this period of change is an ideal time for us to use evidence-based approaches to …
Why we should not surrender to unconditional offers.
I get it, I really do. Students are anxious, it is the second year of the new specifications, the task of revision seems impossible, undoable, insurmountable. With a click of …
Are linear A-levels better?
A brief overview of the recent history of post-16 education helps us understand how we got from there to here, the challenges ahead of us and some thoughts on some …
Rebuilding Curriculum and Assessment CPTSA Conference 3rd February 2018.
Despite the miserable weather and end of term exhaustion, I had the pleasure of attending and speaking at the CPTSA Conference on Saturday 3rd February 2018. I think this was …
Grief, loss and change.
“To live is to endure loss, repeatedly. Without the ability to bear this nothing new would exist. Once something has died, we can mourn it, making space within ourselves for …
The problem with UCAS.
I think it is time we reviewed the usefulness of our university admissions process. I propose the current system is stressful, inefficient and unnecessary when there is clearly another way. …
Reformed A-levels: more rigorous or more rigamarole?
Well the dust has settled on the first year of the reformed A-levels and whilst it was not the omni-shambles we had feared thanks to the concept of comparable outcomes, …
the unconscious curriculum 