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Adding Value to Vocational Education and Training

By matthew.raggett January 8, 2021Teaching and Learning, Vocational Education

For the last two months we have been working with VITALIS European Projects to help develop their already successful programmes built around Vocational Education and Training (VET). Electronic Maker Space…

The Admissions Landscape: What does 100% even mean?

By matthew.raggett October 14, 2020Admissions, NEP 2020, Teaching and Learning

It’s admissions week! When 100% becomes a requirement for admission and when it’s clear that there are enough students getting 100% to make it a viable cut-off for a university…

Who needs exams?

By matthew.raggett May 25, 2020Leadership, Teaching and Learning

Last week the writer and broadcaster Simon Jenkins wrote an opinion piece in The Guardian under the title, ‘If we can do without GCSEs and university exams now, why go…

Maximising learning through well-designed classrooms; what renovating 25 classrooms taught me about working with vendors.

By matthew.raggett May 3, 2020Classroom Design, Teaching and Learning

Over the years I must have seen hundreds of classrooms, everything from wood and mud buildings that house 80-plus students in rural western Kenya to 100sqm teaching laboratories for classes…