SATs are damaging, misleading and not fit for purpose
This week, children in year 6 will sit their Standardised Assessment Tests (SATs). To me, they quite simply make no sense: created to assess schools, not children, they assume...
Beyond Tuition Fees #11- Much to Learn, More to Do
It is a time of extraordinary potential for change in UK Higher Education. Labour’s promise to end tuition fees has defied the critics and united many behind Corbyn’s...
Education In Adulthood – Beyond Tuition Fees #10
It is a time of extraordinary potential for change in UK Higher Education. Labour’s promise to end tuition fees has defied the critics and united many behind Corbyn’s...
A Cooperative Future for Students – Beyond Tuition Fees #9
It is a time of extraordinary potential for change in UK Higher Education. Labour’s promise to end tuition fees has defied the critics and united many behind Corbyn’s...
Another Higher Education Is Already Here – BEYOND TUITION FEES #8
It is a time of extraordinary potential for change in UK Higher Education. Labour’s promise to end tuition fees has defied the critics and united many behind Corbyn’s...
We Need to Free Our Education From Neoliberal Thinking
In the past couple of years, the Government has created a programme with the aim of ‘raising aspirations’ for Higher Education in young people, approaching this in various...
Education as Emancipation – Beyond Tuition Fees #7
It is a time of extraordinary potential for change in UK Higher Education. Labour’s promise to end tuition fees has defied the critics and united many behind Corbyn’s...
Our schools need more democracy, not just funding, to flourish
Modern society is riven with problems. We have huge inequality, unemployment, social strife, and we are falling to respond to our urgent environmental problems. Many of these problems...
WHAT ARE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITIES MADE OF? – BEYOND TUITION FEES #6
It is a time of extraordinary potential for change in UK Higher Education. Labour’s promise to end tuition fees has defied the critics and united many behind Corbyn’s...
FREEING EDUCATION FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS – BEYOND TUITION FEES #5
It is a time of extraordinary potential for change in UK Higher Education. Labour’s promise to end tuition fees has defied the critics and united many behind Corbyn’s...