Yesterday, shortly after offering my customary congratulations to everyone receiving their Level 3 qualification results across England, NI and Wales, I got drawn into a Twitter discussion about the efficacy and fairness of exams versus other forms of assessment. It stemmed from these comments by Gary Neville: Professor Rachel Lofthouse QT'd her support for Gary's comments, but had received quite an aggressive reply from one teacher complaining that "Coursework [was] less fa

Every so often, I'm going to use this space to share a few thoughts about the adult and community landscape across these islands - and crucially some of the differences in policy discourse and culture between nations/regions/jurisdictions. In my time with City & Guilds, I was always conscious of the organisation struggling to reconcile its desire to help learners wherever they are with the reality that the vast majority of its activity (and income!) is focused on England - wi