Covid-19 and education – perspectives on the impact of lockdown
Nobody could have predicted the effect the pandemic would have on our lives. Indeed, nothing has challenged the status quo quite like it. Over the…
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Olly Newton appointed specialist adviser to Lords Committee on Youth Unemployment
@ukEdgePolicy appointed specialist adviser to Lords Committee on Youth Unemployment Edge’s Executive Director Olly Newton has been appointed as a Specialist Adviser to the House of…
Assessment – Time for a rethink?
The cancellation of GCSEs and A-Levels for a second year running has increased the pressure on the UK government to re-evaluate its approach to assessment.…
Skills and education system must be supported so that no-one gets left behind
@ukEdge response to #SpendingReview 2020 #SR20 In his own words, the Chancellor highlighted that the UK is facing an “economic emergency” as he revealed a…
Opportunity for new Biden administration to shine a spotlight on education
All eyes have been on the U.S election with much excitement, trepidation and anticipation but with the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, there…
Why now’s the best time to rethink our education system
Exam results day. This annual event is stressful enough at the best of times. Imagine then, how much more stressful it is when a global…
Facing up to skills shortages in the digital age
Before we had even heard the dreaded words ‘COVID-19’, the world and the labour market were already changing fast. Our most recent report at the…
Education and skills policy is still stuck in the 1980s
The 1980s are back; shoulder pads, headbands, ruffle-neck blouses. It’s a well-rehearsed aphorism that fashions repeatedly ‘come round again’, and so if often feels with…
#FutureofEducation – Our century-old, rote-learning, exam factory approach to education is no longer not fit for purpose
Not run of the industrial mill Superficially there is an element of incongruity that many of the buildings which symbolise Britain’s industrial age have assumed…
In defence of the BTEC
It doesn’t seem so long ago that the Edge Foundation was writing about ‘the rise of the BTEC’ and how this qualification was gaining currency…