Category Archives: Secondary Education
ICT teacher training is dead, long live ICT
Originally published in TES magazine on 26 October, 2012 | By: Kerra Maddern ‘Challenging’ switch to computer science could cause headaches The scrapping of teacher training in ICT in favour of computer science could cause staffing problems and threaten the future of courses, trainers have said. From next September, initial teacher… read full article »
Grade boundary shift was ‘worst decision ever made by AQA’
Published in TES magazine on 28 September, 2012 | By: William Stewart High-ranking assessor’s email admits it hit ‘vulnerable’ pupils This summer’s contentious shift in GCSE English grade boundaries was the “worst decision ever made by AQA”, a senior figure from the exam board at the centre of the controversy… read full article »
Ofqual rules should have prevented grading changes
Published in TES magazine on 7 September, 2012 | By: William Stewart Ofqual’s own rules suggest that it should have prevented controversial changes to the grading of this summer’s English GCSEs and allowed a rise in results, TES can reveal. The exams watchdog argued last week that permitting grade boundaries… read full article »
Teachers shine at Games
British athletes and officials take time out from the classroom to go for gold Many school staff spent the last few weeks of term counting down the days until the start of the summer holidays and the arrival of the Olympics, but one geography teacher has been waiting years for… read full article »
On the naughty step – Conduct that deserves a ticking off
Published in TES magazine on 22 June, 2012 This week: Rod Liddle We read a lot of stupid attacks on teachers by newspaper columnists, but Rod Liddle’s rant in last week’s Sunday Times was notably idiotic. Liddle argued that teachers were opposing changes to the national curriculum because they hated… read full article »