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What I Learned as one of the rED Scand Gang

April 25, 2017

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ResearchED is an edugeek’s paradise Even though we had thoroughly recharged our batteries over Easter and only been back at work for four days (three if you discount the INSET day – which of course we DON’T), it was bloody lovely to get away from it all to the second, and hopefully annual, ResearchED Scandinavia […]

Cultivating a Culture Club: A ResearchED Scandinavia Tangent

April 22, 2017

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It’s lunchtime at ResearchED Scandinavia 2017. I’m sat in the gargantuan lobby of a gargantuan school in Norway that is hosting us. This morning I’ve heard some good sessions: one from David Didau that has generated some twitter activity, one from Tine Prøitz that has really got me thinking, and also one from Tom Bennett […]

When Rhetoric and Reality Collide, Use Statistics

April 13, 2017

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The DfE, and the government more widely, have got themselves into a bit of a pickle. The division between what they say they want to achieve and what they are actually doing has diverged so far that they are unable to reconcile the two: rhetoric and reality have boarded trains heading in two opposite directions.  […]

Universally Unacclaimed: The Great VAT Debate 

April 7, 2017

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The other night I tweeted out the following story, assuming that it would be a slam dunk with the twitterati, or at least the vast majority of them.  I mean, seriously, who on my timeline was going to dislike the idea of applying VAT to private education fees (I hadn’t even realised that they were […]