…in the number of courses taught entirely in English by continental universities and priced well below the maximum £9,000-a-year annual UK tuition fee or, in some countries, with no fee…
Making teacher development work
…Trust’s recent report, What Makes Great Teaching. Improving teaching practice promises to be one of the central education priorities of the next Government after May 2015 whatever its political hue….
Fiona Millar: The big election idea should be trust teachers
…beans on a supermarket shelf, to be expanded and contracted at will, and simply inventing new types of schools isn’t a golden bullet when it comes to raising standards. ……….
Rosamund Urwin: £926 a month – the cost of being an unpaid intern
…London. That’s a lot of cash to play stand-in PA or office dogsbody — photocopying and fetching sandwiches while never letting the keen smile slip. An estimated 21,000 interns are…
Improving the learning of teachers
…of assessment. 3. The strongest evidence supports the use of three main sources of feedback: teacher observations (particularly from fellow teachers or peers); surveys of students; and measures of student…
Helping parents to make a difference
…parenting within the lowest income families demonstrate that such behaviours are successfully adopted among vulnerable families. Clearly, if we can help more families in difficult circumstances to adopt this positive…