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UPDATED: EA’s Response to Ofqual Consultation on Proposed Changes to the Assessment of GCSEs, AS and A levels in 2021

News, Responses and ConsultationsBy Dami

[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Headline_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] Jump to: Summary Consultation response UPDATED: Consultation outcome Summary The Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual), which regulates qualifications, examinations and assessments in England, made a call to teaching professionals as a means of providing support to schools and colleges to help reduce the impact on learning due to the disruption in…

The EA and anti-racism

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The English Association commits to being an anti-racist organisation and stands against any type of racism and racist activity. This means that we recognise that, as an organisation, and as individuals who make up that organisation, we are part of a society in which racial inequality is systemic and institutional, and any action we take is determined by this fact.

New Deal for Higher Education

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[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Headline_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] Press Release Forty-nine professional academic associations issue call for “new deal for higher education.” As UK higher education institutions reportedly fall in the global rankings ,[1] forty-nine professional associations representing diverse academic research fields and thousands of UK-based academics wrote today to Education Ministers in the UK and devolved governments calling for “a new…

Response to the UKRI Open Access consultation

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[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Headline_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] The English Association and University English have submitted a joint response to the consultation on UKRI’s proposed Open Access policy. Open access (OA)refers to the removal of price and permission barriers to peer-reviewed research. It refers to peer-reviewed research disseminated online in a digital format without a paywall and published under some form of…

Response to draft Ofsted Initial Teacher Education Inspection Framework consultation

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[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Headline_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] Primary Phase The English Association supports the use of systematic synthetic phonics teaching as part of a broad and balanced approach to the teaching of early reading. The 2019 Ofsted ‘Education inspection framework: Overview of research’ is clear that ‘Phonics is only one component of learning to read’ (p. 21). This is supported…

Response to Ofsted ITE Inspection Framework Consultation

News, Responses and ConsultationsBy Becky Fisher

Ofsted invited responses to their proposals for changes to the Initial Teacher Education (ITE) framework. The framework will be published in summer 2020. The English Association’s Primary and Secondary Education Committees responded to the consultation as follows; thank you to Dr Penny Amott and Dr Joan Foley for their work on this response. Primary Phase…

A joint response by the English Association and University English to Plan S

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[siteorigin_widget class=”SiteOrigin_Widget_Headline_Widget”][/siteorigin_widget] The English Association was founded in 1906 with the aim of fostering knowledge, understanding and the enjoyment of the English language and its literatures, as well as good practice in teaching and learning at every level. It was granted a Royal Charter in 2006. The Association has 293 Fellows, senior figures who have…