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If there’s one issue on which Mumsnet users all tend to agree, it’s the importance of education. Not all of them would necessarily say that ‘education’ and ‘schooling’ are exactly the...
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Localism in Education: A Reflection on the EU Referendum
In the aftermath of the EU referendum the BBC has published two graphs revealing the English regions where votes were highest for the leave and remain camps. The region topping the leave vote was...
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What’s really inside the maths cupboard? Developing terminology for ‘manipulatives’
When I told teaching colleagues I was thinking about ‘manipulatives’, there was a sense we all knew what this meant: the resources in our maths cupboard. This seems at odds with what has been...
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BREXIT – initial thoughts on effects on our schools
Alea iacta est, the die is cast! With 5am last Friday morning it was obvious that a majority (51.9%) of the UK electorate had voted for BREXIT. By lunchtime it was clear what BREXIT means for the...
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First thoughts on Brexit
So the country has voted to leave the EU. The results show we are split on the issue, by region, by age and by economic prosperity. If early reporting is right, and 70% of the young voted to stay...
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When I was at school in the 1960’s my class were not allowed to study history. Because I was in the bottom stream of a grammar school (that’s another story!), conventional history was...
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Yesterdays and tomorrows: what the referendum says about education
In one sense, of course, it has nothing to do with education – certainly not with schools. The EU referendum may be more important than a General Election but education policy is not a...
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Tablets in schools: Tools for learning or tantalising toys?
Tablets are coming to a school near you. Actually, they’re probably there already. In the UK alone, around ¾ of schools were using tablets in 2015, for over half of lesson time, according to...
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Metaphorically speaking…
I’m currently reviewing some guidance as to how to make lecturing notes/teaching materials as accessible as possible. It is, of course, important to be as accessible to all as possible, but I am...
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