Following an inspiring Association for Science Education (ASE) conference this month, Amie Hewish, Head of Secondary Science at Oxford University Press, calls for collaboration in continuing to develop an exciting, knowledge-rich curriculum in science. I’ve just got back from the ASE conference, and what a great few days it was. Teachers, technicians, educators, assessors, and […]
Read moreIt has certainly been an extremely busy few weeks and most of us are waiting for the final versions of new specifications. I know that I am really fortunate to work with some great people and as well as working with the team at York I sometimes deliver joint sessions at Newcastle University. When I […]
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Times are changing in secondary education thanks to government reforms: around the country new AS, A Level and GCSE courses will be being from September 2016. At the time of writing, all GCSE specifications have been accredited. But, only Pearson (Edexcel) has been accredited at AS and A Level, with AQA, OCR and Eduqas on their third submissions to Ofqual. For those who are yet to decide which specification to follow, the Geographical Association has a wealth […]
Read more190 million questions were answered during the 2015 Language Perfect Championship. As I mentioned in my previous post, Education Perfect promised to donate money to help people in Nepal for every student that achieved a Gold Award this year, so here is an update on #GoldForNepal! More than 5,000 students received Gold and Elite awards […]
Read moreIn the last post I mentioned some of the work done by Network for Languages London. Let’s have a look this week at the work by Routes into Languages . Have a look at the different regions and what they are offering. There are many events across the country, motivating competitions that students can enter and awards they […]
Read moreLast week I had the pleasure of attending two TeachMeets, one in Oxford at Fitzharry’s School organised by Lisa Probert the Head of Languages, and the other one by Suzi Bewell at York University. They worked hard to get a good crowd of teachers there and the atmosphere was really good at both events. Both […]
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