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		<title>Pocket Watch – Ofsted prepares to inspect local authority school improvement arrangements</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 14:52:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacqueline Cheng</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To download the PDF, please click here 2013/35 Introduction Next month Ofsted intends to begin looking at how local authorities support school improvement and this week it set out how it was going to do it. The move follows further concerns about widening gaps in school performance highlighted in performance tables published earlier this year....]]></description>
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		<title>Pocket Watch – Some big exam questions</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 14:51:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacqueline Cheng</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To download the PDF, please click here 2013/36 Introduction The current wave of qualification reform has inevitably raised a number of issues. The nature of some of the specifications, how and even who wrote them, best models of testing and assessment, the impact on different ability levels of students, the sheer volume of change, all...]]></description>
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		<title>Pocket Watch – Latest guidance on Traineeships</title>
		<link>http://thepearsonthinktank.com/2013/pocket-watch-latest-guidance-on-traineeships/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 15:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shantha Shankar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To download the PDF please click here 2013/34 Introduction The transition between school/college to work remains one of the weakest links in the English education system and has remained in many ways the bane of education policy planners stretching back as far as the early 1980s. The Government’s current approach has been to develop a...]]></description>
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		<title>Pocket Watch – Education shapes up for a difficult Spending Round</title>
		<link>http://thepearsonthinktank.com/2013/pocket-watch-education-shapes-up-for-a-difficult-spending-round/</link>
		<comments>http://thepearsonthinktank.com/2013/pocket-watch-education-shapes-up-for-a-difficult-spending-round/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 15:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shantha Shankar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To download the PDF please click here 2013/33 Introduction Fears are growing that the 2015/16 Spending Review, which kicked off formally two weeks ago, may be one of the most difficult if not bloody yet. The Comprehensive Spending Review in 2010 introduced sweeping cuts across public spending Depts in the hope that things would pick...]]></description>
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		<title>Pocket Watch – Some education ‘bits’ in the Queen’s Speech</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 15:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shantha Shankar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To download the PDF please click here 2013/32 Introduction There may not have an Education Bill among the list of Bills announced in the Queen’s Speech this week but it was a useful opportunity for the Government to update its position on a number of key policy areas all the same. Most of the information...]]></description>
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		<title>Policy Tracker &#8211; Keeping track of what happened in the world of education in April 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 10:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shantha Shankar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To download the PDF please click here 2013/4 Main talking points A lot of consultations at the moment. Consultation on the National Curriculum drew nosily to a close earlier this month while those on secondary school accountability, school system efficiency, vocational qualifications at Key Stage 5 and apprenticeships are all due to complete in the...]]></description>
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		<title>Pocket Watch – Getting ahead with a Tech Bacc</title>
		<link>http://thepearsonthinktank.com/2013/pocket-watch-getting-ahead-with-a-tech-bacc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shantha Shankar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To download the PDF please click here 2013/30 Introduction This week’s announcement that the Government intends to introduce a Tech Bacc performance measure for 16-19 year olds from September 2014 ensures that virtually all of the recommendations set out in the 2011 Wolf Report have now been acted on in some way. The Tech Bacc...]]></description>
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		<title>Pocket Watch – The FE Guild moves ever nearer</title>
		<link>http://thepearsonthinktank.com/2013/pocket-watch-the-fe-guild-moves-ever-nearer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shantha Shankar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To download the PDF please click here 2013/31 Introduction Conceived by John Hayes, blessed by Lord Lingfield and moulded into shape by a number of lead partners in the sector, the FE Guild moved a significant step nearer recently with the launch of an Implementation Plan covering the next few months. Things have moved pretty...]]></description>
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		<title>Jacqueline Cheng</title>
		<link>http://thepearsonthinktank.com/2013/jacqueline-cheng/</link>
		<comments>http://thepearsonthinktank.com/2013/jacqueline-cheng/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 14:13:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shantha Shankar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Senior Researcher jacqueline.cheng@pearson.com Jacqueline joined the Pearson Think Tank armed with knowledge about international student outcomes, the student experience in higher education, and international student choices. She completed a DPhil in 2010 exploring the statistical validity and reliability of using the National Student Survey results in ranking courses and universities.]]></description>
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		<title>Pocket Watch – The changing face of FE</title>
		<link>http://thepearsonthinktank.com/2013/pocket-watch-the-changing-face-of-fe/</link>
		<comments>http://thepearsonthinktank.com/2013/pocket-watch-the-changing-face-of-fe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 07:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shantha Shankar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To download the PDF please click here 2013/29 Introduction There’s a lot on FE plates at present, you only have to look at the latest funding letter to the Skills Funding Agency issued a couple of weeks ago to see that. Traineeships, loans, local skills arrangements, quality standards and review, integration of the National Apprenticeship...]]></description>
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