Encouraging entrepreneurs is vital for the future
A new review of vocational education misses an opportunity to encourage the promotion of entrepreneurial skills so vital for our future, says Tom Bewick
Alison Wolf’s review of vocational education is potentially a retrograde step in terms of making real progress; and not because her central desire to elevate the quality of vocational learning is wrong.
Her [...]
Ed Miliband is wrong. Tuition fees gave poorer students hope | Peter Wilby
Extra funds meant more university places. The real issue now is cuts to education maintenance grants
Ed Miliband will on Thursday lead Labour MPs into the Commons division lobbies against proposals to treble student fees. “No party with a deep and genuine commitment to social mobility could support them,” he argued in the Observer this week. [...]
How to turn 60,000 students into unqualified drop-outs | Polly Toynbee
The axing of the education maintenance allowance to help poor teenagers stay at school feels like targeted government malice
Never had it so good? If only Lord Young was in the hall with the pupils of BSix Sixth Form College in Clapton, a poor part of Hackney, east London. Life for them is about to get [...]
AfL in Special Schools - A Case Study
Using AfL in enterprise education at a special school
Vocational education is vital for Britain’s business future
It is disappointing that business studies is becoming less popular, says Dragon Peter Jones, because Britain needs entrepreneurs and inspired employees
Last week’s GCSE results highlighted the perennial debate about attitudes to traditional and more vocational subjects. While it is fantastic that the pass rates improved for the 23rd year in a row, with over two-thirds [...]
Doubt cast on academy schools’ GCSE results claim
Figures suggest academies’ claim to produce better GCSE results is due to vocational rather than ‘academic’ qualifications
The success of England’s academy schools was questioned today after figures suggested their exam pass rate was due to vocational and “equivalent” qualifications, not GCSEs.
Fewer than half of academy exam passes at GCSE level were made up of “academic” [...]
Quarter of A-level students will scoop A* grade in advanced maths and Latin
Watchdog predicts new top grade to identify brightest pupils will vary considerably by subject
Almost a quarter of teenagers taking Latin or advanced maths A-levels this summer are expected to achieve the new A* grade designed to identify exceptional students, research published today reveals.
But just 1% of pupils entered for accounting and 2% of [...]
Non-academic 14- to 16-year-olds to go to college
The Liberal Democrats support new proposals to send 14- to 16-year-olds to college. But will they work?
North Lindsey College is justifiably proud of its 14-16 skills centre, which supports over 700 young people each year, many of whom had become disengaged with education. Students from 13 local schools, who, in principal Roger Bennett’s words, “don’t like [...]
The Teachers TV ITE Lectures - Developments in 14-19 - Institute of Education
The ITE lecture by Dr Lynne Rogers of the Institute of Education is entitled: Development in 14-19
Poor students fail to make the grade at A-level
Almost three-quarters of 19-year-olds from deprived backgrounds have fewer than two A-levels
Almost three-quarters of 19-year-olds from the poorest homes in England have fewer than two A-levels, statistics revealed today.
And more than two-fifths have fewer than five GCSE passes, the figures from the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) from last year show.
Some 57% of [...]
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