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How good is a teacher? Check the exam results

…and comparable assessment of a teacher’s contribution. It is also important that the baseline for such comparisons is sufficiently robust. With classroom observations – where teachers or school leaders witness…

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Success matters as much as access

…he said. “If you are paying now or racking up big debts for the future, you can’t help but think about employment prospects.” Professor Les Ebdon said there was a…

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Coding + Creativity = Careers?

…programming languages to solve computational problems; to design, use and evaluate computational abstractions that model the state and behaviour of real-world problems and physical systems; and how instructions are stored…

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The American Dream: Take 3

…the USA? This question was posed, not as part of a complex application process for citizenship, but during an hour long session the American Ambassador to the UK, Matthew Barzun…

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Are you SAT-isfied?

…progress than our parents ever did about us. Many more of our children now reach national expectations than they did 20 years ago before the tests were ushered in. Although…