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5 Tools for Supporting Project-Based Learning

Many skills the government and industry want students to learn are tough to teach in traditional educational models. Here, Shawn McCusker highlights some project-based learning tools to support a more independent learning environment.

10 Mar
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Mobile Phones—A Critical Battlefield

Schools either love them and want to use them in lessons or hate them and want to ban them. Jory Debenham knows which side she is on

10 Mar 2020
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Jory Debenham

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Knife Crime: The Levers for Change Don’t Work in England

Blog by Howard Sharron on knife crime and the policy challenges in reducing it

21 Mar 2019
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5 Tools for Supporting Project-Based Learning

10 Mar

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Is Technology Really Supporting our Educational Goals?

Last year, education secretary Damien Hinds released the government’s strategy for technology in education. It finally acknowledged that digital technology has the power to impact on education, but was somewhat unimaginative in its vision. It focused on worthy goals like cutting down the burden of marking for teachers, improving CPD opportunities, providing assistance to those […]

10 Mar

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Mobile Phones—A Critical Battlefield

Schools either love them and want to use them in lessons or hate them and want to ban them. Jory Debenham knows which side she is on

10 Mar

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It’s Time to Give Credence to Non-Academic Career Routes

Professor Sonia Blandford is Founder and CEO of Achievement for All and one of the UK’s leading practitioners of education. Sonia is passionate about raising the aspirations and improving the attainment of all children and young people regardless of their background or needs. In 2016, she was named on Debrett’s list of the Top 500 Most Influential People in the UK.

28 Feb

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Is Cognitive Bias Skewing Your Data Analysis?

Before you overhaul your whole-school policies, Dan Boorman has some advice to help you avoid reacting to hidden triggers that lead to irrational behaviour.

18 Feb

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Knife Crime: The Levers for Change Don’t Work in England

Blog by Howard Sharron on knife crime and the policy challenges in reducing it

21 Mar

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The Working Class Conundrum

Her own class background has given Professor Sonia Blandford a unique insight into the way working class children fail and what can be done about it.

16 Apr