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		<title>Pocket Watch – Comparing A levels</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 15:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction Today Ofqual published its international benchmarking report on A levels. It comes as the regulator prepares to launch an important consultation on the future nature and shape of A levels and will inevitably provide a valuable lead into the consultation. The report takes four A levels: English; maths, chemistry and history and considers in...]]></description>
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		<title>Pocket Watch – any new Education Bills in the Queen’s Speech?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 14:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction No sign of the HE Bill in the legislative programme announced by the Queen this week but a few other Bills of potential interest for the world of education amongst the 19 Bills that were announced. They include a Bill enacting some important recent developments around special educational needs, adoption and parental leave, a...]]></description>
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		<title>HE Policy blog: The five big trends shaping higher education</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 13:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(A version of this article will appear shortly as part of a collection by Linking London) Now and again it can be useful to lift your gaze from the latest news story, burning policy issue or regulatory change that is occupying your attention. If you set your focus to the widest possible angle, then you...]]></description>
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		<title>Policy Tracker &#8211; Keeping track of what happened in the world of education in April 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 14:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Main talking points Clearly a difficult month politically but where does this leave the world of education and training? First, like most other public services, it leaves it facing further belt tightening potentially well into 2016 and possibly beyond; Danny Alexander’s IFS speech this month, listed below, is important in understanding the context for this....]]></description>
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		<title>Pocket Watch: The hole in the middle of the school system?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:24:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction The argument about whether or not we need a middle tier, perhaps a mediating structure for an increasingly autonomous school system has reared its head again recently. It was the subject of two important reports from the Association of Directors of Children’s Services (ADCS) a couple of weeks ago and it was the first...]]></description>
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		<title>Pocket Watch: Lack of growth continues to make things difficult</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction Last week’s ‘disappointing’ growth figures came at the same time as the Treasury extended its grip on public spending and further debate took off about youth unemployment. It continues to provide a difficult backcloth for the world of education and skills &#160; The latest growth figures Growth is one of the key indicators of...]]></description>
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		<title>HE Policy Blog: Unlocking the power of education data</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:42:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How easy is it for the average student or their family to even find, let alone access or make sense of all the relevant information they need? For example our research with parents clearly highlights some of the challenges when choosing between schools. This was a theme picked up recently by Michael Gove, calling for...]]></description>
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		<title>Pocket Watch – FE’s spring revolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction Since the start of the month new funding rules have been published, updates on fee loans started, consultation on workforce regulations launched, modifications to Corporations’ forms of governance announced and developments around core learning groups such as apprentices, adult learners and HE students confirmed. FE’s ‘spring’ revolution continues Funding and fees Simplification means the...]]></description>
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		<title>Policy Watch – The changing education landscape</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction No great fanfares but four new contours have appeared in the education landscape this month in the form of three new Executive Agencies and one new universal careers support service. &#160; &#160; Why more changes? This latest bout of furniture moving comes as part of the Government’s long-term project of slimming down the number...]]></description>
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		<title>Pocket Watch – Reforming A levels</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction In November 2009 as Shadow Education Secretary, Michael Gove made a landmark speech in which he outlined five principles that would guide his education reform programme should he ever become Education Secretary. One of these principles, raising standards, included a commitment to give universities “power” over A levels. A year later that commitment was...]]></description>
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