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Measuring Wellbeing and the Potential for Democratic Engagement -
Loic Menzies, LKMco Director Wellbeing measures are increasingly popular around the world. David Cameron himself went into the last election promising to develop a national approach to measuring wellbeing. However, whilst the ONS has been developing a set of measures, policy makers’ interest in well-being seems to have been eclipsed by a myopic prioritisation of...
A Non-Day for the GCSE fiasco -
LKMco Policy Development Laura McInerney summarises the Education Select Committee's report on the administration of GCSE and A-level exams which failed to tackle crucial questions around this summer's GCSE Fiasco. We hope that updates like this are useful to you, once a year we check whether they are. Could you take a couple of minutes to answer a few questions and let us...
Things To Know About ED Hirsch and the 'Common Cultural Literacy' Idea -
Written by Laura McInerney, Policy Development Partner ED Hirsch's 'Cultural Literacy' has become quite popular in England this week due to him featuring on a Radio 4's Analysis and also being the subject of a blog by Daisy Christodolou, Managing Director of The Curriculum Centre. Hirsch is the man who wrote the book 'Cultural Literacy' which he followed by creating 'Core...
Of Omelette, Ofsted and "Getting to Good" -
Written by Laura McInerney who, contrary to belief, does sleep occasionally. The 2012 "Getting to Good" report from Ofsted about how a headteacher should make a satisfactory school a good one, is almost exactly the same as the 2008 "Sustaining Improvement" Ofsted report on taking a special measures school up to good; only this time, there’s no fluffy words. Out goes...

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