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The role of assessment in a brave new world

February 28, 2019Digital Futures 1 Comment

Many people think that the next generation will experience the biggest shake up in the jobs market since the Industrial Revolution, and in an ever-connected global world by 2025, we’ll lose millions of jobs to automation. Jobs of the future could look very different to the jobs we all do today and may not have […]

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Specification change for GCSE Psychology

April 26, 2017September 8, 2017Oxford Psychology Team
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GCSE Psychology is changing! Final exams for the current specifications will take place in June 2018. This means that from September 2017, we will all be ‘getting to grips with’ the requirements of the new reformed specifications. ‘So why are we changing?’ I hear you ask! The new GCSE Psychology specifications have come about as […]

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The times they are a-changin’ – Bob Digby on the new specifications

November 10, 2015November 9, 2015Oxford Geography Team
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It’s all change in the geography curriculum! Both GCSE and A Level specifications are changing in September 2016, with first examinations in summer 2018. The last examinations for the existing qualifications will take place in summer 2017. Any teachers teaching a three-year GCSE will already have started teaching the new courses! Change at GCSE The […]

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