Here's the Draft National Curriculum for English Key Stages 1 and 2:Key Stage 1 & 2 National CurriculumFirst observation: the document is anonymous - just as the National Literacy Strategy was! This is outrageous. What an example of non-democracy at work! Those of us who teach in universities, spend...
In June, Richard Scutt from local community group, Dorset Humanists visited Bishop Wordsworth’s Church of England School in Salisbury to explain Humanist beliefs and values at the school’s ‘Multi-faith Day’. Richard began each session by outlining various definitions of Humanism and detailing our core beliefs and ethics. He went on to discuss...
I'm probably jumping the gun a bit here, but the press is full this weekend with accounts of what is anticipated to appear in the new guidelines for Primary English. Presumably, someone at the DfE did a legal leak, as it were.What seems to be coming up is a requirement...
With the world finances in such turmoil and uprisings in so many Eastern countries it is easy for important pieces of news to pass us by as happened this week when this headline appeared. 'School starting age should be raised to six to prevent long-term damage to brighter children'...
The Social Science Centre: a radical new model for higher education Professor Mike Neary is the Dean of Teaching and Learning at the University of Lincoln. @mikeneary A co-operative education centre is opening in England, with no fees and no formal distinction between students and staff....
The Leviathan at the heart of Britain’s Further Education Plato’s ideal was that power must be coupled with wisdom. Ranciere’s ideal is that wisdom requires the absence of power. Thomas Hobbes ideal was a supreme power that can hold autonomous individuals under control and lead to...
