Duncan O'Leary
Senior Researcher
Duncan works on projects looking at public services, skills and work.
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- Miliband on Personalisation The last week also saw two policy workshops held by the Innovation Unit for Leaders of Secondary Schools. These two events sought to gather the views of participants as part of the ongoing conversation about a network-based education system. A particularly interesting part of the day was a lively discussion around how the system can be tailored to meet the aim of Personalised Learning, as laid down in David Miliband?s speech to the North of England Education Conference. Everyone seemed to... from : duncanoleary 27th February 2004
- Open Source Learning? Where does plagiarism stop and open source learning begin? A report from the Joint Council for Qualifications suggests today that ?They [students] would not be able to make extensive alterations without an understanding of the subject,? arguing that re-working (albeit small) exerts of existing text can be a valuable tool in self-teaching. The process as important as the final product? from : duncanoleary 5th April 2004
- Higher Personalisation Charlie Leadbeater continues his personalisation Odyssey with an article in The Times Higher Education Supplement today. Unfortunately open access hasn?t penetrated the paper yet, but here?s a taster:?The 1990s model of customer-driven higher education is the high-throughput university, offering standardised, just-in-time degrees. Shopping for a degree is rather like shopping for white goods in the basement of John Lewis.Yet the generation going into university have grown up with quite... from : duncanoleary 23rd April 2004
- PPPs down under The Evatt Foundation in Australia have just published an article that I wrote for their website. The article deals with Public-Private Partnerships and their attempts to wrestle with the complexity of school improvement. from : duncanoleary 21st June 2004
- Feeling unwell? Have a holiday... The idea has had a mixed reception – some regarding it as fairly traditional bonus, others arguing its just a gimmick. It may be one to watch for a government though, which is increasingly concerning itself with some the ‘social’ problems facing the country: what to do about smoking in public spaces? How to tackle obesity? The Mail is obviously going for the carrot option here rather than the stick, which has also been tried recently . The question is – without... from : duncanoleary 5th August 2004
- Networked Learning Communities enter the blogosphere The Networked Learning Communities programme, which aims to facilitate the spread of good practice across the education system, has got itself a weblog [registration required here]. The second of the two postings so far seems a good example of how it might be used ? it looks at how Local Education Authorities will be configuring the 1000 or so Primary networks that will be created following the Primary Strategy. The next posting will be used to share some of the learning from International... from : duncanoleary 6th January 2005
- Policing by the book Great story on BBC news this morning about a new directive in Mexico City ? the mayor of one of the city?s districts has decided that police officers must read at least one book per month or forfeit the chance of promotion. Apparently they will be regularly tested to make sure they haven?t just been reading the Letts Study Guides rather than the real thing. The programme is designed to increase general levels of literacy, although there are some suggested titles for reading. I haven?t seen... from : duncanoleary 10th March 2005
- Parent Power With an election drawing closer, there?s been an ever?growing clamour over the last year or so for more ?parent power? in education. Often this debate has boiled down to squabbling as to which party offers the most ?choice? for parents and children. It?s good, then, to see the government adopting a posture towards parents which begins to see them less as consumers of their children?s education and more as active partners in it. The use of ICT to provide parents with information about their... from : duncanoleary 15th March 2005
- You're fired The general response seems to be that there are some funny people around nowadays. But does the programme raise bigger questions, and why don't programmes like The Apprentice make us think harder about them?In complete contrast, the BBC show That'll Teach 'Em hit the headlines, triggering a further round of serious debate about whether 'standards' are slipping or not. But what The Apprentice, The Dragons Den (another good show) and even Faking It haven't done is ask the question: 'do we really... from : duncanoleary 24th February 2006
- Confronting the Skills Paradox: This provocation paper analyses the strengths and weaknesses of the emerging consensus – given expression by Lord Leitch in his review – around education and skills policy for the future. It argues that important elements of this consensus need to be challenged if the UK is to fulfil the laudable ambitions outlined in the Leitch Review and succeed in harnessing the talents of the whole population. from : markfuller 30th January 2007
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