Posts Tagged ‘Progressive education network’

Behaviour theory and education – the nudge factor

There was an interesting article in the Guardian a couple of weeks ago co-written by George Osborne and Richard Thaler (of Nudge and Behavioural Economics fame) talking about designing policies that go with the grain of human nature. Whoever gets into power after the next election – what impact could this kind of thinking have [...]

David Cameron, report cards and education policy

Its been a pretty interesting 24 hours in the education landscape. Yesterday’s David Cameron speech to the TED 2010 conference set the broader scene for the Conservative party’s own domestic programme of reforms for greater transparency for government with a number of non departmental public bodies (NDPB’s) in the firing line. The section of the [...]

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