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Comment by Sarah Tucker on March 13, 2012 at 17:15

Hello everyone

As you are in the education group, I thought this online consultation from Pearson might be something which interested you. Please see below for more information:

Pearson has been involved in education for over one hundred years. We believe in different types of learning for different types of people, and we want our exams to help raise the standard of education that every single child receives. This online pamphlet contains some suggestions from Pearson, Edexcel’s parent company, about how improvements can be achieved.

 

These are some initial proposals to meet the challenges our examination system faces. We believe they can help form an important part of a package to ensure our examinations are fit for purpose. But we certainly don’t have all the answers.

 

The questions and ideas included in the consultation are intended to start a conversation on how that change might look. We believe the options we are putting forward are worthy of rigorous debate and consideration, but they are by no means exhaustive. We hope that other suggestions and ideas will surface through consultation. We will listen to these views and prepare for change.

 

We’re asking – and have started to try to answer – questions across six areas:

 

1. How best to set world leading standards?
2. How best to define and protect a new gold standard?
3. Should assessment be a profession?
4. How best to share and use data to drive system wide improvement?
5. How best to create a curriculum with a balance of stretch and mastery?
6. How best to measure with more meaning?

 

Whether you’re a teacher, a parent, a student or anyone who cares about the UK having the best educational standards in the world, we’re interested in what you have to say. We would like to invite you to take part in our consultation, so please visit www.leadingonstandards.com to share your views.

 

Also, we want to make this consultation as inclusive as possible, so please feel free to share a link or information on this consultation via your online channels including your website, forums or e-newsletter. We would also encourage you to use the social media sharing buttons on each section of the website to tweet or share a link via Twitter or Facebook with your contacts.

 

Big questions are being asked about our education system. Join the debate about how the UK can lead the world on standards.

http://www.leadingonstandards.com/

Comment by Maurizio Fantato on July 29, 2011 at 12:30

Hi would anyone have any suggestion on how to prepare for the 'Free Schools' interview when summoned by the DfEd?  We have put a bid for a Free School and I was just wondering if anyone had some specific pointers given especially that the Free School project is something completely new.  Any help is much appreciated!

Comment by Denis Stewart on February 20, 2011 at 20:56

I'm wondering what value there could be in 'exporting' Opening Minds [http://www.thersa.org/projects/education/opening-minds ] - with adaptation as appropriate - to the 'celtic' parts of these islands. Unfortunately, I'm not able to go to the 11 March conference.

Comment by Rick Hall on August 24, 2010 at 13:23

I thought this article from the Director of Rathbone was worth sharing
http://bit.ly/9pGzzY

Comment by David Jennings on July 1, 2010 at 15:51

Just to let you all know that (after discussions with Tessy, Becky and others), I've created a new group called Self-Organised Learning, which is officially 'within' the Fellows Education Network (though Ning won't let us put a group within a group).

From the intro:

This group is for people who work in education and are interested in doing more with less. By education we mean learning in any context, from community to corporate to educational institutions, and any age from infants to pensioners. The need to do more for less is fairly evidently a result of tightening budgets in the public and private sectors. The financial pressure for efficiency is one side of the coin. The other side is that we have

• better tools for distributed group work and
• better learning resources than ever before, plus
• a growing culture of collaboration.

Please come and join us in the group and let us know what you think.

Comment by Hilary Lane on April 2, 2010 at 9:10

This may be a comment for the gender imbalance forum but with reference to Frances's mention of achievement, the DCSF has recently got its knickers in a twist about gender differences in achievement. They have recently published on their website something called "Mythbusters: Addressing Gender and Achievement: Myths and Realities [link: http://nationalstrategies.standards.dcsf.gov.uk/node/195901]. This sets up certain "myths" and seeks to destroy them. Firstly, as a teacher for the last 30 - odd years, I question whether some of these myths are held at all. Secondly, they contradict their "mythbuster" on gender differences with their own statistics elsewhere on the website which shows that for several years running, girls have consistently outperformed boys at GCSE by a significant margin! This conflicting "evidence" cannot help those who seek to educate young people and give them the best opportunities for success where a) GCSEs are the appropriate form learning for the individual and b) educators are striving to find ways in which ALL young people can achieve, in which case, using GCSEs as a benchmark for success is no use at all.

Comment by Frances C .A Gallager on April 1, 2010 at 15:15

Could the RSA in the education network be a force for an attitude/paradigm shift re how we recognise success and not via examination results. Such things as exams sometimes -in fact often -do not encourage young people to shine in displaying what they can do. So should we have a new model?. Many folks feel safe in the comfort zone of their mode 1 thinking and learning -[how many of those reading this were taught at school]-- Didactic, knowledge and exam driven, learning with litlle emphasis of application of knowledge. - Hence lacking in understanding the narrative of learning or understanding what the purpose of that learning is. The Opening Minds model is a start but even here the school success is being measured mainly by exam success etc.aspects of which are valid but not necessarily the key drivers of success post school. What are the other ways in which success can be recognised?

Comment by Frances C .A Gallager on March 23, 2010 at 11:39

many apologies for all the typos in my last entry I was trying to battle pleurisy and I think you can see the effect. Lessons learnt. Don't go public when you are feeling really poorly.
Hope all got the essence of the message and not just the specific failures of my WPskills. Still struggling a bit with the personal health agenda so will return when in more vigour.

Comment by Frances C .A Gallager on March 19, 2010 at 12:30

Hi Mike R,could not attend event to day by you but really interested to hear the outcome/feedback.If you ever come to Scotland ket me know and myself and a colleague David MillerFRSA both in Education would love to meet up with you for further discussions etc.the issues are very interesting and pertinet to lifelong learning

Comment by Daniel Snell on March 16, 2010 at 16:18

Hi Tessy,

There is so much an RSA education network could do. totally inspiring in it's possibility.

20% work in education! so much talent....what do with it?

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