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Theme : education
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Their Space Podcast
It's the seventh Demos podcast, and the first of 2007. It sees Hannah and Celia talking about the report Their Space: Education for a Digital Generation. The project, funded by the National College for School Leadership, explores the skills that young people are learning through their use of new technologies and makes suggestions for how schools and policy makers should respond.You can listen in by downloading the mp3 file here, or by subscribing to the podcast feed here. Or, the audio should...
from : hannahgreen
4th January 2007
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Tales of Dearing do
On the back of last week's Dearing report into language learning in schools, the UK's linguistic competence is back in the newspapers and, once again, we are reminded of the monoglot mire into which we could well fall.
from : samjones
18th December 2006
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Lessons from Bulgaria
Discussions about eastern Europe – especially those countries that are due to join, or have just the joined, the EU – tend to fall into two categories. First, there are the negative stories that express worries about immigrants from the new member countries coming to the UK in droves, distorting the lower end of the labour market, or placing even greater strain on overstretched public services. Second, there are more positive descriptions of the role that eastern...
from : hannahlownsbrough
16th October 2006
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Music education and well-being
This seminar is held in partnership with The Finnish Institute in London and The British Council FinlandWe are grateful to Elisabeth and Bob Boas for allowing us to host the event at 22 Mansfield StreetSpeakers includeSeppo KImanen (The Finnish Institute in London)John Holden (Demos)Anthony Sargent (The Sage Gateshead Foundation)Tapani Lantio (The Sibelius Academy)Susan Hallam (The Institute of Education)Katherine Zeserson (The Sage Gatehead foundation)The seminar will also include, musical...
from : mollywebb
28th September 2006
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Talk Us Into It
This report argues that people are not talking about public affairs less – the problem is that they are engaging less frequently in the means by which their conversation can become public. We need to reconnect these conversations with the public realm and bring back into discussion the interests that at the moment are so fragmented.
from : markfuller
14th September 2006
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BBC NEWS | Education | School where pupils select staff
pupil voice case study
from : hannahgreen
7th September 2006
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TV gets left behind as kids head for the web
A new survey has shown that two thirds of kids spend more time online than watching TV. More than half use Social Networking sites every week.
from : celiahannon
1st September 2006
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Joining up the dots
The more we find about young people's changing relationship with digital media the more questions this raises about their future as students and employees. Just as some schools find it difficult to capitalise on the creative and technological skills of many of their pupils, so organisations risk overlooking the new skills of young graduates. As the recent Demos publication Working Progress demonstrated, employers think new graduates are arriving without with the skills needed to navigate the...
from : celiahannon
30th August 2006
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Some schools face uphill battle
Social inequality can be entrenched by schools, undermining work of teachers and parents, warns former Director of Demos Tom Bentley.
from : samhintonsmith
29th August 2006
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Want better workers? Then offer better jobs
Argues that the ubiquity of poor jobs is leading to low aspirations in education:
'As the labour market offers more and more low-paid, low-skilled and insecure employment, there seems to be a corresponding tit-for-tat between employer and employee about who can offer the other the least. "It's only a temporary position I'm afraid, with no hope of advancement." "Great. Sounds perfect for me, because I'm surly and I can't read."'
from : duncanoleary
23rd August 2006
