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		<title>Fair fight for HE</title>
		<link>http://radicaled.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/fair-fight-for-he/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[A-levels and the Pre-U]]></category>

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Martin Allen and Patrick Ainley 
 
 
Letter  Guardian Education  24/06/08

 

 

Mike Baker raises some important points about A-levels 
 http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,,2285812,00.html
While it&#8217;s true that only a minority gain three grade As, the general rise in standards at A-level is to be welcomed, though it reflects a situation where more and more young people feel they have to &#8220;go to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Desperate diplomacy&#8217; turns to meltdown</title>
		<link>http://radicaled.wordpress.com/2008/06/03/desperate-diplomacy-turns-to-meltdown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[specialist diplomas]]></category>

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Martin Allen
 
 





The Government’s attempts at implementing the specialist diplomas - the cornerstone of the 2005 14-19 White Paper - continue to stumble. Earlier this year in a  effort to restore momentum, Children, Schools and  Families minister Ed Balls announced three more additional diploma lines in humanities, science and modern languages and a new ‘extended’ diploma [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cambridge Pre-U: elitism goes marching on</title>
		<link>http://radicaled.wordpress.com/2008/05/01/the-cambridge-pre-u-elitism-goes-marching-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 08:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Martin Allen                                                                                                                 
Post-16 Educator    March-April 2008
 





The Cambridge Pre-U, an alternative qualification to A-level, currently being piloted by schools in the Independent sector is set to receive the  backing  of  QCA, the government exam watchdog.  In contrast to the modular AS-A2 system used at A-level, the Pre-U returns to the more traditional linear approach.  With assessment of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why we need a general diploma accessible to all</title>
		<link>http://radicaled.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/why-we-need-a-general-diploma-accessible-to-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[14-19]]></category>

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Martin Allen and Patrick Ainley

The Guardian 15/04/08
 


 
The government&#8217;s new strategy for 14-19 follows the peak in numbers of 18-year-olds entering higher education (42.5% in 2005-06), along with those achieving two A-levels (34% in 2006). 
 
Although more than 80% remain in full-time education for a year after the compulsory school-leaving age, increased participation has been accompanied by increased [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SATs : It&#8217;s time to go</title>
		<link>http://radicaled.wordpress.com/2008/04/09/sats-its-time-to-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[testing and assessment]]></category>

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Martin Allen

Socialist Teachers’Alliance NUT Conference Bulletin 2008
 
The Government’s ‘standards’ agenda continues to falter. As the increases in the number of children meeting national targets begin to level off, research by Professor Robin Alexander and his Cambridge Review team show that for many pupils, reading standards have not significantly improved since the 1950s and point to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The cruellest con of all</title>
		<link>http://radicaled.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/the-cruellest-con-of-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 19:57:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Higher Ed]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[      
 
Patrick Ainley  

Times Higher Education Supplement 07/02/08
 

 
Widening participation is a cruel con but the people academics fool the most with it are themselves.  The government target of 50 per cent of 18-30 year-olds entering higher education by 2010 presents itself as a professionalisation of the proletariat but it disguises a proletarianisation of the professions.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here comes the ‘Burgerluarette’ !</title>
		<link>http://radicaled.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/here-comes-the-%e2%80%98burgerluarette%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mceducation]]></category>

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Martin Allen 
           
Campaign Teacher   Spring 2008
 
News that McDonalds are offering  employees a  ‘training’ equivalent to A-levels  got its fair share of media attention at the end of January, particularly when it became known that QCA was recognising it - along with courses from two other major companies, the airline Flybe and Network Rail.
 
 
From January 2008, McDonald&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crisis of childhood. A  critique of the Children&#8217;s Plan</title>
		<link>http://radicaled.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/childrens-plan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 22:15:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Children's Plan]]></category>

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Richard Murgatroyd and Martin Allen
 
Morning Star  04/01/08
 
 
New Labour&#8217;s recently published Children&#8217;s Plan sets itself the modest target of making Britain the &#8220;best place in the world to grow up.&#8221; Unfortunately, the mixture of good intentions, technocratic changes and small-scale reforms on offer don&#8217;t add up to sort of radical vision that is needed to tackle the growing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Functional for who?   A quick assessment of the new functional skills</title>
		<link>http://radicaled.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/functional-for-who-a-quick-assessment-of-the-new-functional-skills/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Martin Allen   
Post-16 Educator  March-April 2008


‘Functional skills’ are being piloted in 1000 schools and colleges. Part of the Tomlinson working group proposals for 14-19 education, their introduction is a response to demands from employer representative for higher standards in literacy and numeracy amongst young people. Completing functional skills will be a necessary requirement for moving on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dropping selection?  UCL and the Camden Academy</title>
		<link>http://radicaled.wordpress.com/2007/11/28/dropping-selection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 20:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Patrick Ainley   
Letter   Education Guardian   27/11/07 
 
Malcolm Grant, provost of University College London and chair of the Russell Group of universities, is sponsoring a non-selective mixed academy in his borough of Camden as a way of widening participation to elite higher education (A university is the best kind of sponsor for an academy, Education Guardian November 20)        [...]]]></description>
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