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PISA successfully marketed itself as a measure of educational quality with the claim to measure skills and knowledge that matters in modern economies and in the future world. Upon closer examination, the excellence defined by PISA is but an illusion, a manufactured...

Teachers have said, repeatedly, that standardised tests don't measure what they claim to measure, and that the educational process in schools is being narrowed and weakened in order to focus on testing. Teachers have also said, that the Big Standardised Tests are a...

 Schools are facing a looming teacher shortage and they are finding the quality of graduates from teaching degrees "somewhat unpredictable". What is the answer?

Students will need global competence to engage in international collaborations in fields such as science, health, and technology, navigate an internationally interdependent economic and political landscape, and tackle global issues like climate change, Research...

Instead of classes or exams, students will complete two terms of set projects before developing solutions to their problems, building portfolios to apply to university or having the choice to pitch ideas directly to businesses. By term three, students will be...

With the exam approach, we don't know much about the student, we only know their score. Reliance on exam as sole criteria for entry skews the student population to a less diverse group of students than is appropriate for university. The Big Picture programme is a new...