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		<title>PCPL launches its latest round of Hot Breakfast Briefings with a look at school policy developments.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Event Summary This week the Pearson Centre for Policy and Learning kicked off its 2012 series of Hot Breakfast briefings with a look at what’s happening in school policy. The last few months have seen a series of important developments for schools covering funding, ‘league’ tables, inspection changes and the National Curriculum. With schools seemingly...]]></description>
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		<title>Pocket Watch – Some headlines from Apprenticeship Week</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:41:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction Arguably three themes stood out from this year’s busy Apprenticeship Week: continuing concern about youth unemployment; the economic ‘case’ for apprenticeships; and further evidence of the skills system shifting on its axis towards greater employer ownership Continuing concern about youth unemployment The launch of two important Reports on the subject (covered in accompanying Pocket...]]></description>
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		<title>Pocket Watch – Some  important contributions to the debate on youth unemployment</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:40:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PCPL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction In its Report on Youth Unemployment published this week, the ACEVO (the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Orgainisations) Commission on Youth Unemployment call for ‘a bazooka big enough to tackle the task.’ It’s one of a number of signs that the ‘big guns’ (the Commission for example is chaired by David Miliband) are...]]></description>
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		<title>Pocket Watch – Changes to the inspection system</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PCPL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction The issue of so-called coasting schools has been much in the news recently with David Cameron, Michael Gove and the new Chief Inspector all expressing some strong views. Sir Michael Wilshaw’s speech to the ‘Good to Great’ Conference this week brought much of the thinking together, launched a consultation on the key changes and...]]></description>
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		<title>‘Future Universities’ paper by Demos – supported by the PearsonCPL</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:51:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Launch event summary: On Friday 3rd February Demos launched a new research paper on the future of higher education in England. The paper entitled ‘Future Universities’, supported by the Pearson Centre for Policy and Learning, explores how recent Government reforms could be modified in order to protect and promote the following three ‘principles of success’...]]></description>
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		<title>Policy Tracker &#8211; Keeping track of what happened in the world of education for Jan 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:39:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Main talking points January is generally the month of reckoning after the Christmas period and January 2012 has been no different with a string of statistics being published on the economy, unemployment and school and college performance through annual ‘league’ tables. The stats on the economy and unemployment cover the last quarter of 2011 but...]]></description>
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		<title>Primary Policy Watch – Phonics phollow-up</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[2011, the TES promised us, would be ‘the year of ploob, of dar veng spunch and grint yurk pronk’. Sure enough, phonics dominated the Primary landscape last year. And with a second phonics catalogue due out later in the year, the first nationwide phonics screening check due to take place in June, and a refocusing...]]></description>
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		<title>Pocket Watch – The messages from this year’s ‘league’ tables</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PCPL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction The latest school and college performance or ‘league’ tables which cover the 2010/11 academic year and were published today reveal the full force of the data revolution that’s driving the new style tables. Moving from a rather mechanistic, points based system to one which offers a much more sophisticated yet rounded picture of institutional...]]></description>
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		<title>#WeTweetEd #2: How should we drive education technology forward?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PCPL</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following the success of first education Tweet-up held in November, the Pearson Centre for Policy and Learning (@PearsonCPL) and EducationInvestor magazine (@EduInvestor) held its second successful #WeTweetEd #2 event last evening at Learning Without Frontiers at Olympia in London last night. #WeTweetEd #2 debated what we need to do to keep driving education technology forward,...]]></description>
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		<title>Pocket Watch – The Royal Society report on ICT and computing in schools</title>
		<link>http://pearsoncpl.com/2012/pocket-watch-%e2%80%93-the-royal-society-report-on-ict-and-computing-in-schools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction One of the papers that seemed to have influenced Michael Gove in making his announcements about ICT last week was the Royal Society’s two year inquiry into computing education in the UK. It was formally published last Friday and offers a detailed critique of the state of computing and ICT provision in schools at...]]></description>
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