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Ofsted has turned our attention back to what makes a good curriculum. We now need better answers
John White. Ofsted has begun consulting on a revised draft inspection framework. The inspectorate wants to move away from an over-reliance on results and to focus on how these have been achieved – ‘whether they are the result of broad…
A word to the wise: what does it mean to be an educated school-leaver?
IOE Events. Through our What if… debates we have endeavoured to tackle the big, longstanding debates in education. This month we took on perhaps the biggest of them all: ‘knowledge vs skills’. Recent commentaries have brought greater nuance to the…
Higher Education Policy Institute report on access: the debate rages on
Lindsey Macmillan, Matt Dickson, Simon Burgess. We appreciate the response by Iain Mansfield on WonkHE to the widespread criticism of his paper on selective schooling. However, the points we made about the dataset used and the methods employed remain. A major critique…
Enquiring minds: building a picture of how children learn to understand subjects
Arthur Chapman. Over the last year and a half or so, my colleagues and I in the UCL Institute of Education’s Subject Specialism Research Group have been thinking together about schooling and about how children develop and build their knowledge.…
Grammar schools and access to universities: HEPI report not an accurate or complete picture
Lindsey Macmillan, Matt Dickson, Simon Burgess. A HEPI Occasional Paper out today claims that “grammar schools … play a significant role in supporting social mobility”. This is based on two statements in the paper: firstly, that a high proportion of disadvantaged pupils…
Are educational networks the new panacea for system reform? Here’s how to ensure a more thoughtful approach
Melanie Ehren. In the last decade many countries have introduced policies to mandate or incentivise school networks. Examples are teaching school alliances and Multi-Academy Trusts in England, regional improvement consortia in Wales, area-learning communities in Northern Ireland, and networks…
School leaders: who sits at your table? And four more questions for the new year
Zachary Walker. Every generation brings new faces, new ways of thinking and new challenges into our classrooms. In order to prepare students for the dynamic, exciting world they are entering, it is important that we understand and honour this generation…
If young people are to change the world they need the knowledge, the global skills and the belief they can do it
Douglas Bourn. The impact of globalisation on economies, societies and communities is one of the major issues of today. It can be seen in Trump’s emphasis on “America first”, the rationale behind Brexit and recent social events in France.…
70 years on from the UN Convention on genocide, we must continue to learn the lessons of the past
Yesterday, Sunday 9 December 2018, marked the 70th anniversary of the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (writes Nicola Wetherall). As we formally recognise this important milestone,…
There’s more than one way to get a PhD: enhancing women’s career opportunities in HE
Ginny Brunton. The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show that women in academic careers earn on average some 16% less than men. The Times Higher Education reported that 30 institutions had mean average pay gaps in…
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