|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||
- Home
- Contact Us
- Grant Policy
- Press
- s
- Number of vocational qualifications hits new high
- Business leaders call for more young people to take vocational qualifications
- Sir Ken Robinson gives final Edge/RSA lecture
- Half of parents 'just like Lee McQueen'
- Nation set to vote for vocational heroes
- Vocational courses lead to better life chances
- VQ Day: Colleges and learning providers invited to become involved
- National celebration of vocational qualifications launched
- Modernisation of careers advice is required
- Social intelligence critical to UK prosperity, says leading UK educationalist
- 132m working years wasted by British employees in the wrong job
- 'Worrying' state of careers advice revealed
- UK at risk from market forces 'colonising schools and family life'
- Level 3 diplomas will be just as challenging as A levels
- 'Diversity and creativity critical to classroom success' says leading UK educationalist
- Andy Powell on National Apprenticeship Week in the TES
- Edge appoints Partnership Director to drive stakeholder campaign
- Edge helps Canadian colleges rebrand
- Mystery shopping into careers advice launched
- Young people and adults give evidence to Skills Commission Inquiry
- The government should give more support to apprenticeship schemes
- The curriculum fails to engage young people
- 'Government obsessed with qualifications' says education expert
- New Service must address root causes of 'massive lack of Apprenticeships'
- Edge response to the TES article on impartial careers advice and the Education and Skills Bill
- Education and Skills Bill risks being 'condemned to failure'
- New look pushy parents’ campaign hits the road again
- Stopping the drop-out culture through practical learning
- Edge response to Guardian research into Diplomas
- Parents use children to keep up with the Joneses
- UK parents take their eyes off the bedroom (and onto the boardroom)
- Workplace learning earns investment prizes for employers
- Edge statement on Diplomas
- Shadow minister pledges to 'elevate practical learning' at Tory Conference
- Minister calls for end to 'ridiculous' vocational divide
- Expert panel calls for action to boost vocational learning
- Lib Dem conference hears calls to close 'curriculum chasm'
- Parents call for vocational revamp of the curriculum
- Parents 'back-seat driving' their children's education down the wrong road
- Pushy parents jeopardise their children's futures
- More workplace experts to start teaching
- Vocational 'alumni boards' unveiled in Bristol
- Ecotricity Founder Voted Most Inspirational Business Leader
- The New Statesman and Edge announce the finalists of the Edge Upstarts Awards 2007
- Olympics will not depend on degrees
- Who inspires you?
- Employers show how to Edge ahead of the competition
- Edge converges on MCBD/Band & Brown
- Forget the degree, get some skills (and a life!)
- Edge urges students to combat climate change
- A night of celebration – Edge Awards 2006
- Alan Johnson visits Edge Award winner Matti Elsom
- Wanted! Entries to Ice Edge
- Chinese Olympic expert to address London on skills
- MPs 'very concerned' about the impact of skills shortages on investment into Britain
- Punctuality: Suits You (Sir or Madam!)
- RSA announces lectures series with Edge
- Charities join forces to promote vocational learning
- Educational foundation to sponsor two new city academies
- Education foundation bids to sponsor new city academy for Nottingham
- Educational foundation bids to sponsor new city academy for Milton Keynes
- Chancellor announces Russell Commission match-funded support with Edge for Horse's Mouth
- News
- ssss
- This year’s Edge Award winner announced
- Edge TV series highlights practical success around the world
- Brown edges ahead on education
- Employer Engagement Project begins
- Practice makes perfect: Edge supports publication of practical learning essays
- Edge launches Milton Keynes academy consultation
- Glossary
- About
- Full list
- Search
- Sitemap
- Gallery
- Edge Believes
- Edge Blog
- Horse's Mouth, Richard & Judy, and Pushy Parents
- With the Customers
- How are you intelligent!
- The knight, the dragon and the fair maiden
- Cheating yourself, cheating the system, cheating the country!
- Carry on learning
- Diplomas - how we are helping
- Cameron is the new Blair
- Leave it to the professionals
- I'm back!
- How it all hangs together
- Diplomas: A* for Alan Johnson, re-sits for Daily Telegraph
- The Guardian hits the mark
- Employer engagement
- British children: bottom of the class?
- Inspiration from our Learner Forums
- Up to 18
- Encouraging young people to stay on in education and training
- Defining 'gifted and talented'
- Thank You
- The qualification muddle
- Edge Awards Night
- No gifted children?
- Parity of Esteem
- Apologies, but worth the wait I hope.
- My favourite meeting this week...
- Dumbing down of science...
- A busy, busy week
- Apprenticeships?
- When life gives you lemons, drink lemonade
- Specialised Diplomas
- Gifted and Talented
- My first attempt at writing a blog
- Views and Responses
- Edge responds to Ed Balls in The Daily Telegraph
- Edge response to The Times article on Education and Skills Bill
- Edge response to Evening Standard article on league tables
- Edge response to TES article on Matthew Arnold School's success
- Edge's response to NAO report
- Response to Times letter on the Young, Gifted and Talented scheme
- Edge's response to the Queen's speech
- What are Diplomas for?
- Failing school system could harm economy
- The Edge Guide to Diplomas
- Feedback on Another Way Forward campaign
- Learning and Skills Council supports new Edge campaign
- Edge Diploma support
- Before the Frog Boils: Education and Learning for 2056
- What's wrong with this picture?
- Andy Powell's "Edge Believes"
- Andy Powell in the Edge Brochure 06/07
- Educational foundation tackling 'fit-for-work' issues through city academies
- Dame Ruth Silver
- Andy Powell in Director magazine
- Garry Hawkes to the Financial Times
- Our People
- Lena Kokkolas
- Nicola Woods
- Angela Mayers
- Jonathan Bramsdon
- Peter Mitchell
- Carlos Rodriguez
- Alex Glover
- Jane Samuels
- Nicolas Heslop
- Garry Hawkes
- Andy Powell
- John Kerr
- Rachel Kellett
- Our Trustees
- FAQs
- Edge? Who are you?
- And what's that?
- So you're against university?
- Do you want to change our educational system?
- So you're a pressure group?
- Sounds expensive, where does your money come from?
- Do you hand out grants?
- How can I contact you to find out more?
- Our Trustees
- Edge Action
- Schools & Students
- Employers
- Skills & Enterprise
- Previous Projects
- All Activities
- Academy Q&A
- What's Edge anyway - are you in it for the money?
- Do Milton Keynes people want this Academy?
- You say you will specialise in business and enterprise – what does that mean? Will other subjects suffer?
- Doesn't 'vocational' mean dumbing down? Aren't these courses a cop-out for under-achievers?
- Who will run the school?
- Won't all the old problems still be there in the new Academy?
- Will the catchment area change?
- Is the Academy for all types of students?
- Will the Academy take students with special educational needs?
- How will the Academy meet the needs of the many different ethnic groups in the area?
- How will the Academy engage and motivate children who come from more disadvantaged backgrounds?
- How will exclusions be managed?
- Will the Academy provide extra-curricular activities?
- Will the facilities in the Academy be better?
- Is the Academy going to be built on land that is proposed for a new church, or that already has houses on it?
- Will the Academy provide adult-learning facilities and room for community groups to meet?
- Don't you think that the Academy should focus on educational activities only and leave community activities to community groups?
- Milton Keynes Academy Questions and Answers
- Will we keep the mobile classrooms?
- Will we be in one building?
- What's the difference between a school and an academy?
- What will Edge's role be?
- Will the curriculum change?
- Where will the new school be built?
- What will happen to the old school?
- Will we be able to still do PE when this happens?
- Won't the residents around the current playing fields be upset?
- Will the school day change?
- What will students do whilst the new school is being built?
- How many students will there be in the academy?
- Will there be a safe place for bikes?
- Will the academy be fenced?
- What role will students have in planning for the new academy?
- Will the school be split into different sections for years, etc?
- Will there be social clubs?
- Will the timetable change?
- Can we have longer break times?!
- Will there be disabled facilities?
- Will there be an extended range of academic subjects available for all students - particularly for more academically able children or those who don't want to take vocational or practical courses? e.g. the option to take separate science and humanities sub
- Will there be any specialised subjects?
- Why business and enterprise?
- Will the Woughton Centre still be a part of the school?
- How do I submit a question?
- 16-24 years
- Edge Listens
- Roundtables
- Learner forum
- ALS
- Spires Academy
- Thamesview
- Bowring Community Sports College
- North Kirkby Cluster
- Prescot School
- Cedar Mount High School
- Our Lady's, Manchester
- Newall Green High School
- Background on the ALS project
- South Maidstone Academies
- Ice Edge blogs
- Iced Gems
- On The Edge Of A Breakthrough
- Nature's Angels
- A New Shade of Green
- HVGI
- Effelence
- Zero Living
- Polar Ice
- Polarbeartear
- Employer Engagement
- Raising the bar and removing barriers: what employers can offer education
- Why employers engage
- Summary of previous research to date
- Teachers
- Learners
- Schools and employers
- What's the future for employer engagement?
- Brokerage
- Learner Forum views
- Watch out Ofsted, Edge Instead are coming
- Ofsted focuses on the weak
- Britain: The Dunce of Europe
- Quick fixes for the poorest schools
- RSA lectures
- Research
- Edge Loves
- Edge Invites