Jsavage.org.uk Website Review

this is a note to say that this blog is now suspended in terms of new content. i will continue to blog on my company blog here this blog will remain here as an archive of materials, including research articles and book chapters i’ve also blogged a lot about music education, arts, general education issues and technology. i was pleased to be asked to contribute an article to the recent edition of the mma’s ensemble magazine. the article focused on the use of live streaming technologies within ucan play’s work with nymaz on the connect:resound project. another independent report showing teach first as vastly expensive and ineffective. the ifs have published their report into the costs and benefits of different initial teacher training routes someone for teaching (the answer is that it is harder than many imagine) and that universities might have a key role still in providing this training (the answer is that they do but it is not nearly as large as used to be the case). successive tory governments have favoured alternative approaches and have continued to spend multiple tens of millions of pounds on the ‘charity’ teach first which trains, on balance, a very small number of teachers in comparison to other routes. 2016, the ifs report is the fifth report that i can recall that makes two things completely clear: here are some of the key graphs from the ifs report. firstly, this graph shows the average and total costs of training one secondary alongside this, it is also worth considering the the variation in the amount of funding itt providers receive for trainees on the different training routes. the report states, clearly, that ‘teach first receives net funding of £28,700 per trainee (this includes direct grants from the nctl, fees paid by schools and voluntary contributions, and this is net of the payment to schools to cover mentoring). this compares with the £9,000 hei providers receive in tuition fees for hei-led pg courses’ (p.15). in other words. heis