-
Latest Blog Posts
- What curriculum do young people need? July 23, 2020
- School reopening? top scientists say not yet May 25, 2020
- Sending England back to work and back to school? May 11, 2020
- Too early to reopen schools : look at Europe April 30, 2020
- Ofsted : unreliable, destructive, beyond repair December 5, 2019
Follow us on Twitter
My TweetsTags
- academies
- accountability pressures
- apprenticeships
- assessment alternatives
- baseline tests
- British values
- buildings
- childhood
- Children's Zones
- class size
- College of Teaching
- community
- comprehensive schools
- coronavirus
- creativity
- culture
- Curriculum
- disadvantage
- early education
- Education Reform Act
- English
- extremism
- feedback
- formative assessment
- free schools
- GCSE
- governors
- grammar
- grammar schools
- history
- inclusion
- inspection
- IQ
- Islamophobia
- language
- literacy
- local authority
- local democracy
- mental health
- migration
- Muslims
- National Curriculum
- nurseries
- Ofsted
- phonics
- phonics check
- PISA
- politicians
- poverty
- Prevent
- privatisation
- profit
- racism
- school closures
- school finance
- secondary moderns
- self-evaluation
- Shanghai
- signatories
- South Korea
- special educational needs
- spoken language
- streaming and setting
- stress
- Sure Start
- talk
- teacher education
- terac
- testing
- trust
- universities
- Vocational education
- welfare
- workload
- youth unemployment
Categories
-
-
Tag Archives: apprenticeships
The crisis in secondary schools: where is it leading?
All kinds of schools in England are facing damaging budget cuts. Large meetings are being held all over the country where parents and teachers together are showing their opposition to Government cuts. Every concerned teacher or parent should join the … Continue reading
Low-level apprenticeships reflect Britain’s ‘coffee shop’ economy
by Martin Allen Ofsted’s hard hitting report on the quality of apprenticeship provision Apprenticeships: developing skills for future prosperity confirms what is increasingly becoming apparent. Large numbers of apprenticeships are poor quality, involve little real training and merely certify ‘existing … Continue reading
Posted in Social Justice
Tagged apprenticeships, disadvantage, inspection, Ofsted, politicians, Vocational education, youth unemployment
Leave a comment
The apprenticeship swindle
Apprenticeships used to be an esteemed form of skills training, leading to relatively secure and well paid careers. Now the government are trading on the word’s positive connotations while selling short millions of young people. Three years ago, this was … Continue reading
Posted in Social Justice, Uncategorized
Tagged apprenticeships, inspection, Vocational education, youth unemployment
Leave a comment
The Techbacc and apprenticeships: as many questions as answers
by Martin Allen Claiming to offer a new alternative for young people at the upper end of secondary school and in Further Education, Labour’s election manifesto retains some old themes –particularly in its policies for vocational education where it wants … Continue reading
Posted in Social Justice
Tagged apprenticeships, disadvantage, Vocational education, youth unemployment
Leave a comment
Are apprenticeships a real alternative to university?
by Martin Allen and Patrick Ainley Schools have been criticised by government ministers and Ofsted for not doing enough to promote apprenticeships, but do they serve as a real alternative to university? Our research shows that most apprenticeships are low-skilled … Continue reading
Posted in Social Justice
Tagged apprenticeships, disadvantage, poverty, Vocational education
Leave a comment
Reclaiming Schools 