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The Question That Gove Forgot To Ask About GCSEs -
By Policy Development Partner, Laura McInerney Earlier this week I reproached Gove’s suggested A-Level reforms for failing to adequately address a real problem in education. Thankfully he avoided this in his next spectacle and the ‘leak’ that exposed Gove’s planned GCSE reforms hit upon some very  real problems for secondary education. First, many people do believe...
A-Level Reform: The Solution Must Fit The Problem -
  By Laura McInerney, Policy Development Partner In politics, in education reform, and in life it is too often the case that people come up with an idea first and then link it to a problem in order to justify its existence.  This bizarre behaviour confuses the people affected by the problem and the new announcements about A-Level reform have...
UPDATE: National Curriculum Review - Primary Draft Curriculum Released -
By Laura McInerney, Policy Development Partner The Coalition have made it clear they want a rigorous, internationally competitive curriculum based on lots of specified content.  In December last year we created a short guide to the lengthy ‘expert review’ of the National Curriculum. The experts used high-performing countries’ curriculum to suggest several reforms to...
'Saving' the 'bright but poor' -
By Loic Menzies, LKMco Director A few days ago Laura tweeted that bright but poor kids were by definition a minority and got a whole load of ire in response. Now, after a particularly heavy few weeks of a certain kind of social mobility rhetoric from Clegg and co, and a few too many conversations about transforming education by giving talented poor kids more opportunities I...

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