See Magnus Linklater's column in today's Times
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1062-1375120,00.html
On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Noel Jenkins wrote:
> Ian Mack wrote: Unfortunately there's plenty of evidence: Ofsted's own
> evidence comes in its subject-specific reports series, an example of which
> is here: http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/publications/index.cfm?
> fuseaction=pubs.displayfile&id=3523&type=doc
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> I am disinclined to accept any Ofsted findings purporting to the quality
> of primary school Geography provision (as will any school teacher who has
> witnessed the malevolent process at work.) At my school, it is the feeling
> that children are joining with a far better geographical background than
> at any time over the past 10 years.
> Secondly, I'd point out that the Geographical Association are actively
> trying to peddle a mutant History+Geography+Citizenship GCSE
> called "Making sense of the modern world" - hardly "extensive support"
>
> I've subscribed to this list for several years, mainly to watch out for
> signs that colleagues in Higher Education are taking even the slightest
> interest in the subject in schools. It has proved a most fertile source of
> inspiration in my own teaching though!
>
> Noel Jenkins
>
> (Purveyor of secondary school Critical Geography to the massess,
> Somerset)
>
> http://www.juicygeography.co.uk
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