Tag/category: education
The Class reminds me what I hate(d) about school
The combination of feeling let down by my own state education, working for an education researcher, and having gone back to school myself last year affords me a number of insights into the education system. Certainly I spend a lot of time thinking about it. The Class, which is all about a French langauge teacher’s struggle to keep his pupils …
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Educational experiment
With a heavy sigh of relief, I’m pleased to declare that my experiment paid off. I spent every Wednesday of the last academic year attending a fast track English A level course. Why? Well… to see what later-life learning is like, spy on the state of 6th form colleges in 2008, expand my mind… and — I confess — to …
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