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		<title>Latest unemployment figures speak for themselves</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Latest  ONS  figures for the period Sept to Nov 2011 show:  1.04 million &#8211; 22.3% of ‘economically active’ 16-24 year olds are unemployed &#8211; up by 53 000.   829 000 -   20.8% of ‘economically active&#8217;  18-24 year olds are unemployed &#8211; up by 44.000. 729 000 unemployed 16-24 year olds ‘not in full-time education’ &#8211; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=radicaled.wordpress.com&amp;blog=730971&amp;post=1774&amp;subd=radicaled&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Curriculum Wars ?– Gove goes again!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 08:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a widely reported speech, Michael Gove tried to project his ‘moderniser’ credentials to an audience of ‘techies’at the recent BETT show. Describing ICT lessons as being ‘off-putting’ ‘demotivating’ and ‘dull’ Gove is removing ICT’s status as a core National Curriculum subject – it will, like technology and citizenship, now just be part of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=radicaled.wordpress.com&amp;blog=730971&amp;post=1757&amp;subd=radicaled&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Curriculum Wars? A brief comment on new National Curriculum proposals</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:38:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Though published just before Christmas, it’s still rather alarming that the ‘expert’ report on the National Curriculum passed almost unnoticed. Michael Gove has announced no changes will begin until 2014 so as to ‘allow for further debate with everyone interested in creating a genuinely world-class education system’. Having said this though, the report’s proposals [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=radicaled.wordpress.com&amp;blog=730971&amp;post=1748&amp;subd=radicaled&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All NEETs now?  A comment on the Coalition’s &#8216;Building Engagement, Building Futures&#8217;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 10:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stung by alarming rates of youth unemployment, the number of NEETs and still on the  back foot  over last summer’s riots; the Coalition government has published a ‘strategy’ document aimed at increasing participation rates of 16-24 year olds in education, training and employment. Building Engagement, Building Futures contains few surprises. It reiterates government rhetoric that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=radicaled.wordpress.com&amp;blog=730971&amp;post=1734&amp;subd=radicaled&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two Manifestos for the fight against fees</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Book reviews for Post-16 Educator  by Patrick Ainley  &#8216;A Manifesto for the Public University’ John Holmwood (ed.)  (2011) London Bloomsbury ‘The Assault on Universities, A Manifesto for Resistance&#8217;  Michael Bailey  and Des Freedman (eds) (2011) London, Pluto Where are we? As Andrew McGettigan asked on his Critical Education blog at the end of 2011, noting &#8216; the government’s strategy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=radicaled.wordpress.com&amp;blog=730971&amp;post=1714&amp;subd=radicaled&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review:  Remaking the Curriculum; re-engaging young people in the secondary school</title>
		<link>http://radicaled.wordpress.com/2011/12/28/book-review-remaking-the-curriculum-re-engaging-young-people-in-the-secondary-school/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 15:13:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Martin Allen   Education Review  Volume 24. N0 1 Remaking the Curriculum; re-engaging young people in the secondary school.   Martin Fautley, Richard Hatcher and Elaine Millard.  Trentham Books 2011, ISBN: 978-1-85856-471-5 The very title of this book should be enough to entice secondary practitioners stuck in a daily grind; where teaching has become focussed on preparing for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=radicaled.wordpress.com&amp;blog=730971&amp;post=1707&amp;subd=radicaled&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Casino economy no use to the jobless</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ONS figures for Aug-Oct 2011 Unemployment is 2.64 million (8.3%) up 128 000, the highest since 1994  • Youth unemployment (including 300 000 students looking for part-time work) is 1,027,000, up 54,000 on the quarter at 22% (14% of the youth population) Youth unemployment (for those not in full-time education) is 17% &#8211; up 21 000 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=radicaled.wordpress.com&amp;blog=730971&amp;post=1703&amp;subd=radicaled&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dodgy examiners for dodgy exams. But what is our alternative?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 13:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Gove has launched an inquiry into the Daily Telegraph’s accusations about examiners giving too much help to teachers attending their briefings. Anyone who attends these type of events, will soon recognise their primary role is about providing information about the techniques required to gain top marks, rather than improving students understanding of the subject. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=radicaled.wordpress.com&amp;blog=730971&amp;post=1694&amp;subd=radicaled&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Too many NEETs.  The  Coalition feels the pressure</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 22:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Department for Education has now published it figures for the number of NEETs. (Young people Not in Employment, Education or Training) and a more accurate measurement of youth unemployment.  According to the DfE, there are 1.16 million 16-24 NEETs – almost 1 in 5 of all young people.  The figures also show over 21% [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=radicaled.wordpress.com&amp;blog=730971&amp;post=1682&amp;subd=radicaled&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Youth unemployment. A lot more than One Million</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 18:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Lost Generation?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Now  over 1 million (more than 1 in 5); youth unemployment will make headlines this week –yet measuring the extent of joblessness amongst young people is a complex process. To begin with these figures include up to  300,000 full-time students recorded as looking for work, but, as is the case with unemployment statistics generally, they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=radicaled.wordpress.com&amp;blog=730971&amp;post=1660&amp;subd=radicaled&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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