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 1 – 3 March 2012

Conference Aston, Aston University, Birmingham

At the Heart of Mathematics - passion and pedagogy

The conference, the landmark of the NAMA year, is just a few weeks away now.  Your conference organisers have arranged a first-class programme in a good quality venue for a conference fee of just £300. The full programme is available on the NAMA website.  If you haven’t yet registered, there are still places available.  Download the programme and registration form HERE.

 NAMA CPD events

  Further date for London:  Saturday 28 April 2012 at King's College London.

The session format will consist of education news and research, learning from members who now work independently and book sharing. The events are open to members and non-members so please encourage others to attend. Timings: coffee on arrival at 09.45; session to run from about 10.00 until 13.00.

To register your interest for any of these Saturday events please contact NAMA admin.

 

November 8th 2011

Liverpool Mathematical Society - Primary Programme

During the 2011/12 school year the Liverpool Mathematical Society will be offering 3 professional development opportunities, each with a different theme. Sessions take place on Saturday mornings between 9.30am and 1.00pm at Mathematics Education Liverpool Hope University, Hope Park, Taggart Ave, Liverpool L16 9JD.

First session is on 12th November 2011 - spaces still available

For more information download leaflet here.

October 7th 2011

Recent announcements from the party conference season

Clegg announces new summer school scheme

Speaking to his party conference in Birmingham on Wednesday, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg announced a new education initiative. In a section of his speech on the recent riots, he observed about the young people involved that “too many of these young people had simply fallen through the cracks. Not just this summer but many summers ago, when they lost touch with their own future. So often the people who have gone off the rails are the ones who were struggling years earlier, not least in making that critical leap from primary to secondary school.” ... read more

Cameron: education the route to success

The Prime Minister seized the banner of education as he wound up the Conservative Party conference in Manchester on Wednesday. In a quite theatrical ending, against a backdrop of a large number of young people on stage just before David Cameron spoke, the Prime Minister asked in his speech, who would lift up the poorest in society? The answer, of course, was that he would and “that starts with a good education – for everyone,” he said. ... read more

So....are academies the answer?

The big increase in the number of schools becoming academies was at the heart of Michael Gove’s speech to the Conservative Party conference in Liverpool this week. The Education Secretary said that the 1,000th school to convert to an academy had done so this week. Since the passage of the Academies Act last July, more than 1,500 schools had applied to become academies and 1,031 had succeeded. In addition, there were 319 sponsored academies established by the last government. ... read more

GCSEs  return to traditional examinations.   

This week it was announced that GCSEs are to return to the traditional model of end-of-course examinations. This is in contrast to the current system, where students take many exams during the course of the year, covering small topics, which allows them to re-sit any unit to boost their overall scores. ... read more

 Other recent announcements/reports of interest   

Draft School Improvement Framework published by Ofsted

Ofsted has now published the draft framework for school inspection, which is expected to be introduced from January 2010. The framework will remain a draft until the Education Bill completes its passage through Parliament. ... read more

Dyscalculia and neuro-science

Chris Husbands, director of the Institute of Education London University, welcomes the development of new software resources designed specifically to help children with dyscalculia, based on brain research showing underlying neurological problems.... read more

DfE publications

The Department for Education recently published the following document of note for us... ... read more