MODERN BACCALAUREATE

Hi, My name is Warwick Mansell, here is a link to my blog entries.

How would an academic bureaucrat design the new National Curriculum?

Interview with Mr Ewan Kerr of the academic bureaucrats union.

Me: Mr Kerr, can you give me your thoughts on the revisions to the National Curriculum?

Mr Kerr: Core maths and English is a bit of a no-brainer for any type of curriculum but of course want to keep things simple like when I was at school.

Me: When was that?

Mr Kerr: 1966 to 1973

Me: I see, bit of a coincidence that is the same for me. Go on.

The National Curriculum review is incomplete and the main proposal for a solution seems to be "make it less prescriptive and leave it to the schools". There is considerable risk of throwing out the baby with the bathwater as competing micropolitical factions fight their respective corners. 

What consensus is there?

So are there any fundamental principles/issues that can be agreed?

Just a couple of graphs to show how effort might affect attainment in relation to inherent ability.

Assumptions - The output probablility curve for attainment if all learners applied average effort would be normal. 

It seems a sad reflection on the politicisation of education that marketing slogans seem to be necessary to get education professionals attention rather than the use of sound evidence based pedagogy.

Aims

I have been updating the menu links for the different languages that the INGOT learning site supports. Some things are far from intuitive! So I decided to document what I found here. 

On this site the Primary links are across the top of the page

Home - Certificates - Users - etc

These are the main menu links additional to user account details in the upper right hand block.

Phone hacks aside, the newspapers are good at taking statistics out of context and making emotive headlines from them. A recent headline that 5 schools contributed more Oxbridge undergraduates than the weakest 2000 state schools sounds like the educational conspiracy of the century.

Phone hacks aside, the newspapers are good at taking statistics out of context and making emotive headlines from them. Or maybe journalists, being mainly English graduates, are inumerate or scientifically illiterate and assume that the rst of the populations is too. A recent headline that 5 schools contributed more Oxbridge undergraduates than the weakest 2000 state schools sounds like the educational conspiracy theory of the century. However, I think I can show that it is a natural consequence of the system as it is.