Tuesday, 2 July 2013

Glancing at education

via Charlie Ball at HECSU

The OECD’s annual Education At A Glance is out, one of my favourite publications. That’s not because the OECD’s idea of ‘a glance’ runs to 440 pages, but rather because it’s full of lovely stats.

The main headlines in the press have been about the value of qualifications in recession – something we all knew but nice to have it reiterated so starkly.

You can see my, ahem, wise and far-sighted commentary in this Guardian article, quotes taken about 15 minutes before I was due to collect my 4-year old daughter from her first ever trip to primary school (this involved lots of crying, foot-dragging and ‘I don’t want to’s – she, on the other hand, was fine).

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Ooops! I've “blogged” the Guardian article without realising who was quoted in it! 


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