Michael Gove wants baccalaureate qualification for England

The "English bac" would not replace GCSEs, but would be a certificate to reward pupils who pass at least five of the exams, at grade C or above, including English, maths, one science, one foreign language and one humanity. "If you get five GCSEs in those areas, I think you should be ( Read more... )

So the thought that we might have been able to get away from stories of how Blair hates Brown and vice-versa once neither of them were in power anymore seems to have just been wishful thinking.

However, in amongst all that was this interesting little article in the Guardian today:

Girls think they are cleverer than boys from age four, study finds ( Read more... )

So, it's A-level results day today and so the news is filled with the usual stories of people arguing grade inflation. Only this year we get it more so as they've just launched the new A* grades ( Read more... )

'No fee degrees' university planWe need to make the education system biased towards people who live near Universities? Oh, sorry, I didn't realise. Yes, of course people who live in big cities are far more entitled to this level of education then those of us from the countryside ( Read more... )

This is impressive:



(The RSA Opening Minds projectOne of the things I feel quite strongly about in terms of education, is that it should be more skills-based rather than fact-based and that children should be given more responsibility for their own learning ( Read more... )

Model school where a third of pupils can't get a place at a state secondaryFound a copy of the observer on the tube yesterday and was interested by this article. Seems strange that the education system has come to this ( Read more... )

The height of incompetence that is the Student Loan Company, appear to have finally realised that, although they wrote 5 years ago, saying they were going to start taking repayments, they have so far failed to do so ( Read more... )

On the radio this morning:

"Children should be encouraged to articulate using gestures"

They're already quite good at that aren't they? I'm sure I've already seen lots of Children articulate exactly what they mean using 1 or 2 of their fingers...

Since September I've been studying for one of the modules of the OU's MAODE (H808 to be exact).

Compared to other courses I've done in the past, this one seems to have been an awful lot more work. This may be partly because a lot of the course explored the use of e-portfolios and the one the OU provided (MyStuff, which is based around Moodle) is ( Read more... )

I've just finished reading a paper for the OU course I'm doing on what a Learning Technologist is and am now very scared.

Being involved in elearning, it would make sense that it would broadly describe what I do.

However, when it starts stating things like

• they are normally of my age range
• have been in their posts for about as long as I've been in ( Read more... )