features
Explore feature articles on a range of topics from across education.
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Licence to Practise dropped
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- 07 Apr 2010
Government drops Licence to Practise as last minute negotiations fail to bring agreement on the proposals.
Children, Schools and Families Bill: Licence to Practise (27kb)
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Select committee evidence
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- 18 Jun 2009
The GTC was called to give evidence to two inquiries being run by the Children, Schools and Families select committee, on accountability and on teacher training.
Children, Schools and Families Select Committee: Inquiry into teacher training (136kb)
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Support learning, not league tables
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- 28 Jul 2008
In May, the influential House of Commons select committee for children, schools and families published its keenly-awaited report into pupil assessment.
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Q&A: Gillian Pugh
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- 30 Jun 2008
Dame Gillian Pugh - one of the most significant figures in early childhood education for many years - chairs the advisory committee of the Primary Review. The Committee brings together distinguished individuals from education and children's services to support the review team directed by Professor Robin Alexander (Cambridge University). We asked her to sum up decades of experience for Teaching: the GTC magazine.
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Q&A Mike Baker
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- 28 Jan 2008
Mike Baker spent 27 years with the BBC,much of it as senior education correspondent, so he's been responsible for breaking pretty much every major education story since the 1988 Education Reform Act. He left the Beeb last year, but is still as involved as ever.And freer to comment too…
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GTC at the Oxford Union
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- 07 Nov 2007
GTC Chief Executive Keith Bartley took part in a debate about grammar schools at the Oxford Union Society.
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GTC at the Battle of Ideas
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- 18 Jul 2007
GTC Chief Executive Keith Bartley spoke in a debate on ‘What is Education For' at the Battle of Ideas, a two-day festival of debates about big themes facing society, run by the Institute of Ideas.
