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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...

Despite occasional bursts of rhetoric about developing that mysterious beast ‘the world class workforce’, the goal of most education ministers turns out to be beating Singapore or Finland in the tables of PISA, the Program for International Student Assessment: in...

The research consistently showed that students taught through PBL displayed: enhanced student performance increased student motivation and engagement improved teacher/student interaction Increased development of 4 C’s of 21st Century Learning: creativity, critical...

A communal and flexible learn­ing area known as The Hub takes the place of stand-alone class­ rooms and children are grouped according to their stage of learning rather than age. 

School leaders improve teaching and learning indirectly and most powerfully through their influence on staff motivation, commitment and working conditions. School leadership has a greater influence on schools and students when it is widely distributed. Some patterns...