Post-16 Educator
by and for practitioners and activists . . .
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Did you know:
Browne Review - coverage of the latest commentary (PSE 60)
•UCU members at UCL suspend action after management proclaim compulsory redundancies unlikely (PSE 58)
Pay: UCU special conference on HE pay agrees to submit a claim for either 8 per cent or RPI plus 5 per cent. The employers (UCEA) maintain a 'zero percentage' awaits (PSE 49)
Two Middlesex professors and one senior lecturer suspended pending investigation of their involvement in support for protests aimed at preventing the closure of philosophy courses (PSE 58)
Report on the THE analysis of HE finances (PSE 63)
James Noble-Rogers, UCET head, is ‘extremely apprehensive’ following rumours that Michael Gove plans to remove teacher training from HE (PSE 61)
Post-16 Educator is a quarterly magazine produced by and for activists in all sectors of post compulsory education.
About PSE
The Editorial Board
The editorial board consists of grass roots activists from UCU and the NUT working together to organise readers and contributors into a national network that is democratic, that develops our practice and our thinking, and that equips us to take action over issues rather than always having to react to changes imposed from above.
The editors welcome articles of any length by and/or for practitioners and intending practitioners in any area of post-16 education, especially by women, plus letters, news items, photographs, materials and illustrations. Articles can be published anonymously if required.
PSE
There are several real debates going on in post-16 education at the moment. Practitioners need to engage in these debates before decisions get made. Post-16 Educator covers all the major issues in the post-compulsory sector.
Each bi-monthly issue includes news and commentary from those working within post compulsory education, plus regular contributions from other interested activists. Comprehensive news coverage picks up on reports in national and local media, together with academic and government papers relevant to the sector. Recent features have included the Israeli academics boycott, prisoner education, teaching practice and the recently formed University and College Union (UCU).
Subscriptions
Any individual or organisation can subscribe. Annual rates (4 copies) range from £3.00 (unwaged) to an institutional rate of £25 each year. For further details please follow this link to download a pdf document (40kb) detailing subscription rates and standing order mandates.
Please click here for details of subscriptions.
General Studies Project
Set up in July 2013, the Project aims to recapture the experience of those involved with Liberal Studies, General Studies and General and Communication Studies.
If you were a lecturer in this field, and/or you’re in touch with someone who is or was, and you’d like to be involved in this research, please contact us at this email address.
Download previous editions of PSE here
To all UCU and other union branches with an interest in further, adult and higher education, the magazine is a 24-page quarterly produced entirely by and for practitioners and activists in these sectors
If your branch would like to arrange a subscription, please contact the editor on cwaugh1@btinternet.com and let us know how many copies you would like, whether you would want a PDF of each issue etc, and we will get back to you with a suggested subscription rate. For individual or regular individual subs go to Subscriptions.
The Real Radical Education?
Liberal and General Studies with vocational students in UK colleges 1950-1990 as revealed through interviews with practitioners who taught it.
Bulletin 1: origins; purpose; context
A Post-16 Educator occasional publication, October 2017
Latest Post-16 Educator
Issue 93, October to December 2018
Report on UCU Congress 2018 Following the article in PSE 92, Bob Jeffery’s congress report.
Rank and File Revolt in UCU Rhian Keyse (Exeter Branch delegate to UCU conference 2018) offers a further perspective on the events there.
For the few not the many? Stephen Lambert and Mark McNally argue that a responsible government would take back control of FE colleges as part of a National Education Service.
John Offord: an obituary Danny Douglas (former FE NUS Vice President) pays tribute to John, who was the FE Policy and Research Analyst for the NUS between 1988 and 2007.
AI and work: real issues and myths Patrick Ainley and Jane Lethbridge review Harry Collins’ Artificial Intelligence, Against Humanity’s Surrender to Computers (Polity 2018) and the Labour Party’s The Future of Work Report (2018).
Liberal and General Studies: its legacy for curriculum development now Roy Stafford reports from the Liberal and General Studies Project
A ‘new’ approach to railway public ownership A statement sent recently by Norfolk for the Nationalisation of Rail to the TUC London and South East Region (LESE)
pdf versions of the articles of the articles will be posted soon . . .
Articles, photos etc. wanted:
The editors welcome articles by and/or for practitioners and intending practitioners in any area of post- 10 16 education, especially by women, plus letters, news items, materials and illustrations. Articles can be published without the author’s name if desired. The deadline for the next issue is 15th June for articles and 30th June for solidarity material about disputes etc. Contact us at post16educator@runbox.com
