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Highlights from today's Education Select Committee: Questions Answered & Ones Still Needing Answers -
The Education Select Committee this morning asked for evidence from headteachers, union leaders and Ofqual over the unexpected grade boundary changes in the English GCSEs this summer. On Twitter this morning many people criticised Glenys Stacey, Chief Regulator at Ofqual, for being dispassionate and talking more about statistics than the impact on children. But we must...
How is it possible that no-one in England knows what a C-grade answer looks like? -
  After TES revealed that OFQUAL did, in fact, ask at least one Exam Board to reconsider their GCSE boundaries, many questions must now be asked at today’s Education Select Committee, including:  Why did OFQUAL take such an unprecedented move?  Did they ask this of any other exam boards? And why did their initial statements deny any such communication? But an...
How will industrial action impact on teachers? -
The NUT has just announced that 82% of its members have voted in favour of strike action. Much of the media coverage is bound to focus on how this will impact on pupils. However, LKMco’s research on teachers’ perceptions of unions suggests it will also have a big impact on teachers. In carrying out our research, we were very surprised to find that teachers described the...
Evidence and Judgment. Is Gove suffering from 'Bad Faith'? -
By Loic Menzies, LKMco Director   “When… a military leader takes upon himself the responsibility for an attack… he choses to do it…  no doubt he acts under higher command, but its orders, which are more general, require interpretation… action presupposes that there is a plurality of possibilities.” Sartre, ‘Existentialism and Humanism’ p.35.    Of all...

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