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In defence of Heat Magazine -
By Loic Menzies, LKMco Director When news broke that “Heat Magazine” and “Britain’s Got Talent” were the latest additions to the Edexcel English GCSE specification all hell broke loose amongst education commentators. Joseph Reynolds argued that it “is a prime example of aiming at the lowest common denominator,” Toby Young criticised it as a failure to ensure that texts...
What The History of Forceps Can Teach Us About Academies -
By Laura McInerney, Policy Development Partner For 130 years the Chamberlen family kept a secret which, had it been shared, would have prevented decades of untimely deaths.  In the late 1500s, Peter Chamberlen - a London-based French surgeon - developed the first tool for successfully extracting live infants otherwise obstructed during labour.  Chamerberlen’s...
The Disciplined Incoherence of Footnote 57 -
By Laura McInerney, Policy Development Partner The Expert Review of the National Curriculum will influence what schools teach from 2013 onwards.  The document runs to 58 pages so for brevity’s sake LKMCo provided a short guide to the key points. However, I only yesterday noticed we missed a crucial piece of information.  Tucked away at the bottom of page 24 is the...
The curious case of PISA and Suicide. -
By Loic Menzies, LKMco Director I wonder if Michael Gove’s rhetoric would be so laden with references to the importance of emulating countries with high PISA scores if he realised that (as far as I can tell), no PISA country achieves higher scores without also having a higher suicide rate. Two weeks ago I was listening to Ulrika Jonnson on Broadcasting House. She and the other...

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