“Ask me my three main priorities for government and I tell you: education, education and education.” This is a famous quote from Tony Blair’s last Labour Party Conference Speech as leader of the Opposition in October 1996 – for the…
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Education, education …. and above all teachers (is what Tony Blair should have said)
Tagged with: curriculum, education, policy, politics, teachers, Tony Blair
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Posted in Behr facts, behr outcomes, knowledge brokering
Don’t measure your child’s educational progress, rather help others make something good happen
Better educational outcomes and ensuring the proper accountability of the system that is responsible for producing them, is a hot topic currently within policy circles. My business tries to help other get their head around aspects of this as you…
Tagged with: accountability, activities, benefits, careers, education, evidence, knowledge, measurement, outcomes, policy, politics, projects
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Posted in Behr facts, behr outcomes, knowledge brokering
My diagnosis? Success is relative and could depend on your relatives
I’ve blogged in the past about routes to medicine as a profession but have left this one quiet lately. It’s not that I haven’t done any thinking about it. In fact I’ve drafted a paper which I send to a…
Tagged with: biology, careers, chemistry, medicine, physics, post16 education, social mobility
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Posted in Behr facts, behr outcomes, knowledge brokering
A Year in the Life of Headguruteacher
Reblogged from headguruteacher: A whole year has now passed since I set up this headguruteacher blog. And what a year it has been! The whole world of twitter and blogging has turned out to be far more rewarding, both professionally…
The 101st post – mapping your life path
This is my 101st post and a milestone in just over a year of blogging. I’ve previously celebrated a significant milestone in my 60th post. That coincided with the Rolling Stones’ 50 years in rock and roll. Last weekend I…
Tagged with: Angkor Wat, aspirations, blogging, Borobudur, choices, goals, life path, Route 101
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Posted in Behr facts, behr outcomes, knowledge brokering, personal thoughts
Support the HTRT Qualifications Framework @HeadsRoundtable
A group of Head Teachers, with support from others, has developed a new qualifications framework for use in English schools and colleges: The HTRT Qualifications Framework. This was done in response to Government-led reforms in England which have turned educational change…
Tagged with: benefits, curriculum, education, politics, qualifications
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Posted in Behr facts, behr outcomes, knowledge brokering
You can’t try to measure happiness, but what matters is knowing it
I often wonder how happy our cat Spice is when she is asleep and this is happening now as I post this blog. She looks pretty happy to me but how would I go about measuring the extent of this?…
