Election news, a GCSE paper blunder and a new Lego ‘Professor of Play’ at Cambridge. Election catch-up – Independent, Guardian, BBC It’s been a tough week for the Conservative party, with news that their cost-cutting pledge to replace free school lunches with free school breakfasts could cost up to £400 million (Independent), according to expert analysts – or between … Read More
Education News Roundup 20/10/16
Britain trailing in OECD education rankings, AQA scraps more subjects and a funding crisis in West Sussex schools Along with History of Art, this week has also seen AQA – one of the main A-level exam boards – scrap both Archaeology and Classical Civilisation, suggesting their main reason for doing so concerns standardising marking across various papers. This … Read More
