Education Politics
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‘No entry’. As AI advances, graduate prospects decline further (opens the original)
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Martin Allen Education and economy, Lost Generation?Martin shows that, though the link between degrees and skilled jobs is diminishing, young people still want to pursue higher education, at least partly for its own sake and as a cultural phenomenon<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href
Childhood Limited: How we turned our children into data (opens the original)
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I had the pleasure of interviewing Cherry Casey, Children’s Rights journalist about her up and coming book ‘Childhood Limited:- How we turned our children into data.’ Her work shows that deep concern about the direction our education system has been taking goes far beyond the world of educationalist to parents and carers. The conversation focused on the fixation with metrics in education and the impact of behavioural regimes on children. The book champions a broad curriculum especially including
GCSEs are the New 11-Plus (opens the original)
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“A classless society is a society in which culture has ceased to exist... To maintain the culture of a population there is needed a distinct class of persons cultivated in a particular way; and that implies an elite, whether you call it an elite or an aristocracy.”T. S. EliotThe Persistence of Selection<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8_bC!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic
Reverse Academisation! (opens the original)
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Zena explains how reversing the outsourcing of education to multi academy trusts should be an essential part of Burnham’s anti-neoliberalism and pro devolution agenda<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="270" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3
SEA Response to Burnham Education Reforms (opens the original)
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