Tag: Education

School age comparison table

  • November 25, 2010 at 10:39 am

  • This table compares school ages in England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the USA. I created this a few years ago, and am publishing it here simply because I had trouble sharing it from where I’d put it previously. Any thoughts are of course welcome though. Age England & Wales Scotland N. Ireland USA 3– 4 [...]

Education Eye – Mapping Innovations

  • May 19, 2010 at 5:02 pm

  • Education Eye is a pretty tool from Futurelab, showcasing online educational innovations. “Education Eye is a free, engaging and easy-to-use online space that gives access to a wide range of useful and relevant innovations across educations’ varied communities. Connecting people with innovative uses of digital technology, new resources and new approaches to teaching and learning [...]

Futurelab Citizenship podcast

  • October 1, 2009 at 12:01 pm

  • Citizenship Foundation CEO Tony Breslin talks to Futurelab's Cassie Hague about the role of citizenship education, technology, and the need to look for greater opportunities to encourage young people to become active citizens. Visit Futurelab Citizenship podcast

Social technologies and the blurring of formal and informal learning

  • October 9, 2008 at 1:22 pm

  • Last night I went to Education Unbound 2008, a debate on ‘how social technologies are blurring formal and informal learning‘. The panel comprised Dan Sutch (Futurelab), David Noble (Hillside School, Fife), Andy Gibson (School of Everything) and Catherine Howell (Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies). It was chaired by Matt Locke, Commissioning Editor at Channel [...]

What are ‘core British values’?

  • May 24, 2006 at 5:22 pm

  • Bill Rammell (the UK’s Higher Education Minister) recently suggested that ‘core British values’ should be taught in schools. I don’t know whether I am actually lacking the intellect to sufficiently understand what is meant here, or am just trying too hard. Whatever the case, I can’t pin down any one value that is uniquely ‘British’: [...]