Tag Archives: CBI

Time to Move On

This gallery contains 8 photos.

Back in 2013 we wrote the following: https://3diassociates.wordpress.com/2013/02/01/rearranging-the-deckchairs/ Rearranging the Deckchairs “You didn’t have to be an absolute genius back in 1912 [the year of the Titanic’s one and only voyage] to imagine that aircraft would become bigger, faster, more … Continue reading

More Galleries | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Theresa May’s Post-18 Education Review: Simply Not Enough.

“The aim of education policy should be to provide the right education for every child. That for some children that will be an education that is firmly based in learning practical and vocational skills. For others, it will be an … Continue reading

More Galleries | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Theresa May’s Post-18 Education Review: Simply Not Enough

This gallery contains 3 photos.

“The aim of education policy should be to ‘provide the right education for every child’. That ‘for some children that will be an education that is firmly based in learning practical and vocational skills. For others, it will be an … Continue reading

More Galleries | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

A Degree of Fraud – A System Ripe for Re-invention

This gallery contains 4 photos.

Want a first-class degree without having to write a single essay? Or perhaps you’d prefer a PhD but you don’t have the will, the inclination or the capacity to do it for yourself? Fear not – at a cost, you … Continue reading

More Galleries | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

The EBacc Debate: Is it the Right One?

This gallery contains 7 photos.

Yesterday, (4th July 2016), there was a debate in parliament about the EBacc and the potential inclusion of the expressive arts as a compulsory component of the EBacc. Currently, the English Baccalaureate is made up of: English mathematics history or … Continue reading

More Galleries | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Managing mental health and children self-harming

This gallery contains 1 photo.

In the depths of the Guardian’s website today we found the following article (a website that still doesn’t carry an “education” link on its home page menu, in spite of our requests for it to do so: clearly football, fashion … Continue reading

More Galleries | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Wellbeing in Schools: How many more have to suffer before we get our priorities right?

This gallery contains 4 photos.

Yesterday we found two stories from the Daily Mirror that may have escaped notice due to neither of them appearing on any news bulletin. One is about a reported increase in the number of calls to NSPCC’s ChildLine from frightened … Continue reading

More Galleries | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Opposition to the new Education Bill

This gallery contains 1 photo.

According to an editorial in the Guardian “Nicky Morgan is wrong to remove parents’ right to object to a school being forced to convert to an academy” http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/22/guardian-view-education-bill-needs-improvement This is not only wrong – it’s an outrage. This is the … Continue reading

More Galleries | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

The Purpose of Education: An Overdue Conversation

This gallery contains 8 photos.

Are we ever going to get education right if we can’t agree on its aims and purposes? Are the purposes espoused by some diametrically opposed by others? Isn’t there some synergy worth considering that will unite all educators? Naively sometimes, … Continue reading

More Galleries | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Reaching a Tipping Point? Education 14 – 19

This gallery contains 3 photos.

Labour could ditch GCSEs within 10 years, says Tristram Hunt For several years 3Di has advocated the abolition of 16+ examinations. The first sign that something might be stirring in our national conversation about GCSEs and high stakes examinations came … Continue reading

More Galleries | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment