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6 tips to integrate financial education into the maths curriculum
Sharon Davies, CEO of the national financial and enterprise education charity Young Enterprise, has spent years championing the power and positive impact of teaching young people financial skills.
Following her recent appearance on Pearson’s The Right Angle podcast, she shares her thoughts on why integrating consistent financial education in UK schools is a goal worth striving for. Although financial education crosses over many areas of the curriculum, such as PSHE, business studies or science, many would argue that maths is its natural home. Here, Sharon outlines her top tips on embedding the subject in maths.
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Digital natives? Using technology to improve learning and assessment with Mary Richardson
The role of new digital learning technologies is not a vision of the future; it is now firmly embedded in education systems from the nursery to the university. The development of digital resources is fast-paced and it can seem overwhelming to navigate the tsunami of sales pitches promising everything from reduced workloads to perfect assessment. However, step back and remember the wise words of educationalist Dylan Wiliam that “everything works somewhere; nothing works everywhere – so we need to ask ourselves, under what conditions does x work?”
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Pearson response to launch of Skills England
The Prime Minister and Education Secretary today announced the launch of Skills England to transform opportunities and drive growth.
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Independent Curriculum and Assessment Review
Government has today launched the independent Curriculum and Assessment Review chaired by Professor Becky Francis CBE and to span KS1 to KS5.
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King’s Speech 2024
The King’s Speech on the 17 July, and the accompanying background briefing contained a number of areas of interest for vocational education and training.