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S2E16: "We need to take the politics out of education": Rachel Sylvester on the Times Ed Commission

Rethinking Education

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Is There a Micro Politics of Little Fears Within the Teaching Profession?

There's a lot of people who have dissenting views within the teaching profession. Those views are often not aired because of what Stephen Ball at UCL refers to as the micro politics of little fears. One in six businesses, there was a survey done for us by PWC, take no notice at all of GCSEs and A levels. And I just think you put those three things together, along with the fact that parents now think the system is too focused on exams. We need this baccalaureate system if we want the vaccine,. you know, the inventors of our future, says Tomlinson.

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