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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, …
My researchEd 2017
My goodness, it was a struggle to get myself to this conference. Along with first week exhaustion, engineering works on the Met line and the onset of a cold, I …
Why we need more sociologists not less
I am quite used to being the butt of other teacher’s jokes about my subject. I am lucky enough to teach both sociology and psychology and whilst people often wilfully …
Sir, which universities are the best?
It is UCAS Week for our Year 12 students and we are getting them involved in the nuts and bolts of the UCAS process. By far the most common question …
It is the hope that kills you.
“It’s not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It’s the hope I can’t stand. ~ John Cleese (as Brian Stimpson in the film Clockwise) The polling stations open …
the unconscious curriculum 