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Direct linkCoe, Robert; Aloisi, Cesare; Higgins, Steve; Major, Lee Elliot – Sutton Trust, 2015
This document is a summary of the report "What Makes Great Teaching". It argues that improved teacher development will positively impact on pupil attainment, particular those from disadvantaged backgrounds. "Developing Teachers" presents five policy recommendations which have been signed by 17 of Britain's leading headteachers…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Teacher Improvement, Teacher Effectiveness, Disadvantaged
Hayes, John – Adults Learning, 2010
This article discusses the UK government's consultations on skills policy and further education funding. Adult learning has, throughout the years, been subject to endless strategies and proposed plans--but none of these has fully realised its potential. There are two contrasting attitudes to the outlook for further education and, indeed, the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Lifelong Learning, Adult Learning, Cost Effectiveness
Peer reviewedCrossouard, Barbara – Teaching in Higher Education, 2010
This article responds to recent UK proposals on measuring and recording student achievement (Universities UK 2007) to highlight issues that are relevant across different higher education contexts, which are increasingly intertwined through the expansion of the Bologna process. Drawing from wide-ranging literature on assessment and sociology, this…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Measurement Objectives, Measurement Techniques, Educational Practices
Barber, Brendan; Sedgmore, Lynne; Hoyle, Graham; Searle, Ian; Anderson, Susan; Templeton, Peter; Hartley, Tricia; Thomson, Alastair – Adults Learning, 2010
The government is consulting the sector on a new skills strategy and a simplified funding system for further education (FE). Some of the leading players were asked what they made of the government's vision and what they would like to see in the strategy. Brendan Barber warns that spending cuts will undermine many of the positive proposals in the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Feasibility Studies, Change Strategies
Schuller, Tom; Williams, Jenny – Adults Learning, 2009
"Learning Through Life," the main report from the Inquiry into the Future for Lifelong Learning, is the culmination of a two-year process of consultation, analysis and reflection. The report sets out bold proposals which go well beyond the boundaries of adult education and training. Several key weaknesses in the current system were…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Research Reports
Campbell, Craig; Sherington, Geoffrey – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2006
In New South Wales as for other Australian colonies, the achievement of mainly free, compulsory and secular public education systems in the 1870s was a cause of self- satisfaction and a belief that late nineteenth-century Australian public schools were among the best in the world. In this paper, the process by which this self-satisfaction was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Education, Satisfaction, Educational Change
