Institute for the Future on the skills needed
The Institute for the Future (IFTF) updated its respected Future Work Skills 2020 report to include literature reviews of all the relevant studies. They highlight...
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School in the Cloud – Inspiring Families to Learn Together
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Teacher Steven Delpome was another to be inspired by Sugata Mitra’s TED Talk. He tried it out in the classroom, got fantastic results but was...
OECD: education not principally about subject knowledge
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Andreas Schleicher, the OECD Education Directorate, on how educational success is not about knowledge, but about ability to apply knowledge to novel situations. The problem...
Harvard Study Shows the Dangers of Early School Enrollment (Foundation for an Economic Education)
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Research by Harvard Medical School is yet more evidence that children are harmed by early formal education “New findings by Harvard Medical School researchers confirm that it’s...
‘Off-rolling is unethical, inappropriate and beyond repugnant – the consequences are devastating’ (TES)
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Geoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, writes about the practice of off-rolling “Off-rolling isn’t just about macho demonstrations of...
Philosophy for children
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Philosophy for Children is a tool to support children in learning through enquiry and the exploration of ideas, it helps students learn through discussion and takes...
SEND Children in Home Education – The Elephant in The Room (The Learning Curve)
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The Learning Curve on the way in which families whose children have special educational needs or disabilities are failed by the system, have no option...
Keep Early Years Unique – campaign organisation
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An organisation which now numbers over 43,000 members it campaigns on all the different attacks on early years education. Against the proposals to introduce baseline...
Alternatives in Education (organisation)
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Alternatives in Education aims to raise awareness about different ways of educating and to support people to get involved in transforming their schools or getting...
We must reinvent education to prepare our children for the era of artificial intelligence (Telegraph)
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A leading headmaster, Anthony Wallersteiner, of the prestigious and expensive Stowe School on why the educational system needs to change as it is not preparing...