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Jan Sramek and Racing Towards Excellence

October 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Good Teaching

We’ve been having some very interesting meetings with the team from Racing Towards Excellence. They seem to share some of our concerns about the provision for quality, impartial careers advice in schools today.
For the purposes of this post, I wanted to quote a bit from Jan Sramek (the co-author’s) introduction to the book – in [...]

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Michael Gove and the return to ‘chalk-and-talk’

August 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Education

I would really urge watching Michael Gove above on ‘What education is for’. There’s quite some possibility that this talk will act as one of the first big salvos in what is shaping up to be an increasingly divisive debate between the parties on education ahead of the General Election.
It has galvanised certain bloggers into [...]

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