Every year the UK A-Level results bring with them the inevitable tide of questions about the quality and standard of the exams: Are they getting easier? Is studying for three or four subjects in great detail right in the modern world? Can standards, and pass rates, be sustained? One option already available to schools and students is the baccalaureate system. With reform of the 'gold-standard' A-level likely, and with qualification reform in Wales and Scotland already a reality, this unique book will be essential reading for anyone who needs to know about the post-16 qualifications debate. Covering national and international approaches, the IBO, curriculum reform,and political and educational imperatives the book including expert contributions by the leading figures in the bac debate from the HE, state and independent-schools sectors, as well as from political and research fields.

Product Description: Since its introduction over 50 years ago, the A-level has been a constant subject of debate in schools, HE and government. Sometimes hailed as a 'gold standard', there is now intense speculation about the future of the A-level in particular, but also about post-14 qualifications in general...read more

Product Description: The 'gender gap' in GCSE results continues to be of prime concern, and there is now a real need for knowledge about how teachers can address this gap. In this volume, a team of contributors considers the gender issues particular to each subject of the secondary curriculum...read more

Product Description: This text celebrates teachers' achievements and creativity at secondary school level. It examines the historical and political contexts of curriculum development and control in the UK, and analyzes the values and beliefs that have shaped the reforms in schools and colleges since 1979...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Differentiation is a key part of effective teaching and is currently an INSET priority for many secondary schools. By giving real-life examples, this book makes links between the theory of differentiation and some of the wide range of good practice already happening in schools...read more

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Product Description: How do students in schools and colleges choose subjects? This book examines this question from a range of perspectives, with particular reference to students' own perceptions. Sections deal with subject choice at 14+ and 16+, course choice for HE, gender and subject choice, and the broader issues of freedom of choice and its functions in the curriculum...read more

Product Description: Five years after the introduction of the National Curriculum, this book seeks to refresh the teaching of secondary English with a discussion about the imagination. Drawing on recent teaching work, it focuses on the importance of imagination in developing all aspects of language usage in school...read more

Product Description: This four-volume series sets out to describe and discuss cultural diversity and the whole curriculum from a variety of perspectives and to consider how the concerns of ethnic groups can be addressed within the framework of the National Curriculum...read more

Product Description: This is the first of four volumes in a series which brings together writings of specialists in the key components of both the whole and basic curriculum. The series sets out to describe and discuss cultural diversity and the whole curriculum from a variety of perspectives and to consider how the concerns of ethnic groups can be addressed within the framework of the National Curriculum...read more

Product Description: Through the work of the Schools Council and other national agencies, the difficulties of achieving effective curriculum change through centralized initiatives and directives have been well documented. At the same time the importance of teacher involvement in such activities, and the advantages of curriculum development over revolutionary innovation, have become plain...read more

Product Description: Language:Chinese.CURRICULUM AND ASSESSMENT (OPEN UNIVERSITY SET BOOK) (map)