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Source It’s quite hard to remember a time when curricular reform was not on the agenda. The early years of Gove’s tenure were characterised by sweeping changes to the English and History GCSE curricula, and Ofsted later responded to criticism of its data-centric approach by placing curriculum front and centre. Since then, Labour has talked…
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In April 2018, while training to be a teacher, I ran the London Marathon. Having had a pretty shocking race, I wrote it up in one of the ‘reflective journal’ entries that comprised part of my training requirements with Teach First. This warts-and-all account of the process then got turned into a speech delivered to…
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Yesterday, Bridget Phillipson made a speech on the attendance crisis. Bolstered by research from the Centre for Social Justice (the hosts of this speech) and previous work from Public First, she outlined measures to tackle the sharp jump in absences since the pandemic – including adding attendance to Ofsted’s safeguarding remit, providing universal breakfast clubs…
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Every year, GCSE results day brings round a spate of anguished commentaries on the place of GCSEs within the assessment landscape. The thrust of these pieces tends to vary depending on the writer’s skin in the game. What I want to do in this piece is use my experiences contributing to a recent IPPR report…