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Results of a survey conducted by The Edge Foundation of 1,199 Teachers and 1,130 parents were released this week revealing a need to raise awareness and promote the value of vocational learning.
A massive 56% of teachers said that their knowledge of vocational learning was ‘poor’. The Edge Foundation claimed this to be “a real [...]
Mar 18
MyBnk are offering a fantastic opportunity for an enterprising individual to launch a new initiative under the MyBnk umbrella, helping to create the next generation of social entrepreneurs!
MyBnk are a dynamic and award-winning charity working with young people to build the knowledge, skills and confidence to enable them to manage their money [...]
Mar 17
Interesting article in the Guardian today – discussing how damaging culturally it is for society to fear young people. It talks about the problems with automatically labelling young people in a negative way that I think much of what we do is trying to tackle:
Link:
Guardian article
Also. I wonder if the 16 MPs who voted against [...]
http://sn.im/sedis [www_dcsf_gov_uk]
Ed Balls is looking into how independent faith schools are meeting the requirements for them to provide, spiritual, social and emotional development for their pupils.
Will they look into how many have school councils or other methods of whole-school pupil voice (still trying to find out what these are)?
It’d be very interesting to see if [...]
I thought this was interesting regarding the primary review stating that they planned to have a single enrollment date for all children.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/primaryeducation/4973031/Extremely-premature-children-more-likely-to-struggle-at-school.html
Mar 12
http://www.communities.gov.uk/news/corporate/1172711
I know that we have had some contact with the Lewisham Young mayor and I think that it is really good that more people will get the opportunity to get involved. Also, I think it’s great that the importance of the views of young people are really being noticed and appreciated.
Daisy
http://sn.im/esrcyouth
ESRC – The youth of today: yobs or future leaders?
ESRC is the Economic and Social Research Council
It’s not that clear how one gets involved though.
Obviously very good to be getting young people actually discussing these issues, rather than just being the subject of them. Not clear whether there’s any scope for action to come out [...]
www.basingstokegazette.co.uk/news/4165789.MP_observes_school_elections/
I thought this was a nice little story and it’s interesting that the elected pupils only serve for 6 months so make sure that more people get a chance to be involved.
Daisy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNqgXbI1_o8
A really excellent, academic summary of how the process of actively engaging wih the world could/will enable us to tackle challenges like climate change.
Asher (but Jess G sent me this link originally)
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