Education Forum Podcast No. 15

Education Forum Podcast No. 15
The Case for Subjects
The fifteenth EF Podcast is available for download now. Listen to Education Forum member David Perks make the case for subjects, whilst assessing the educational opportunities presented by the UK’s new Coalition government.
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Education Forum Podcast No. 14

What Makes a Good Teacher?
Live at the Battle of Ideas 2010
The fourteenth EF Podcast is available to download now, with Sonia Blandford (professor of educational leadership and innovation, University of Warwick), Tom Burkard (director, Promethean Trust), Dennis Hayes (professor of education, University of Derby) and Sir Alan Steer (pro-director, Institute of Education).
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Education Forum Six Part Battle in Print Special

You may have heard that Education Secretary Michael Gove intends to bring back Subject Based Education and to ensure that the next generation learns our "our island story." Sounds good? Think again. Read the Education Forum's six part Battle in Print special on the challenges of Gove's restoration plans.
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Education debates at Battle of Ideas 2010

The Education Forum has a series of debates at the Battle of Ideas this year, which may be of interest
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Education Forum Podcast No.13

Free schools: do parents or teachers know best?
The thirteenth EF Podcast is available to download now. Listen to the ‘Free Schools’ debate with: Anastasia de Waal (Civitas); Sally Millard (IoI Parents’ Forum); Fiona Millar (author, The Secret World of the Working Mother); Kevin Rooney (IoI Education Forum); Siôn Humphreys (National Association of Headteachers); Ralph Surman (SCETT).
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Forthcoming debate that might be of interest to readers

“Free schools: do parents or teachers know best?”

Monday 4th October, 7.00pm to 9.00pm, NUT HQ Hamilton House, Mabledon Place, London, WC1H 9BD.

This Battle of Ideas satellite event will critically explore the new relationship that is being forged between parents and teachers. It is clear that the Coalition’s Free Schools initiative will increase parental engagement in education, but is this a welcome development? What are the implications for teachers’ professional autonomy? And will Free Schools only benefit those children who have pushy parents?

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Education Forum Podcast No. 12

What makes a good teacher? Education Forum Podcast No. 12 is available for download. With university based teacher education increasingly under attack by the UK Coalition government, Education Forum member Toby Marshall asks colleague Shirley Lawes: what and who makes a good teacher?
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This is topic will be explored further at this year's Battle of Ideas festival