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Reach for the stars!... Then what? -
By Loic Menzies, LKMco Director The Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s Round Up Report “The Role of Aspirations, Attitudes and Behaviour in Closing The Educational Attainment Gap” draws together three different reports which look at the impact of educational interventions on attainment. It has two main conclusions:   1. The absence of rigorous data on the impact of...
Universities Writing A-Level Exams Won't Create Super-Human Students -
Written by Laura McInerney, Policy Development Partner Each year students leave my classroom fully capable of researching topics, writing essays and defending their views. Five months later those same students sit in my classroom, as a quivering wreck, because they are one week away from the due date of their first university essay and they don't know what to do. Universities...
If you let 'School Operating Companies' run schools, is that privatisation? -
Written by Laura McInerney, Policy Development Partner Rumours are out that great swathes of the nation are to be ‘privatised’.  As soon as these words are muttered solemn faces befall the crowd and people start yelling about trains.  No-one is happy that the trains were privatised.  All the problems of the rails were caused by privatisation.  Boo –...
When Dad Met Ahmed -
By Laura McInerney, Policy Development Partner When my dad told a group of students that his bus-driver training involved racing double-deckers I made a motion of despair by banging my head against the wall.   Dad clearly saw me, the students didn’t.  Undeterred he continued telling them how useful hourly paid work was (his overtime got us through some tricky...

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