{"id":6024,"date":"2014-06-04T07:12:46","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T07:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6024"},"modified":"2014-06-04T07:12:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T07:12:46","slug":"good-news-for-educators-in-wales-thanks-to-pearson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/06\/04\/good-news-for-educators-in-wales-thanks-to-pearson\/","title":{"rendered":"Good news for Educators in Wales \u2013 thanks to Pearson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\">The news that the OECD\u2019s PISA education league tables will include a measure on global competences in 2018 must come as a relief to those responsible for school education across Wales, as \u2013 of course \u2013 it will mean that all the\u00a0effort that's been put into ESDGC over the years will finally pay off. \u00a0Rumour has it\u00a0that education chiefs are now to soft-pedal other reforms in the light of this \u2013 welcome news for <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2012\/01\/25\/how-does-esdgc-make-a-difference-does-esdgc\/\">producerism<\/a> across the Principality; less so for students, perhaps.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you are wondering how global competences (aka learning) has insinuated\u00a0itself into the PISA process, look no further than the ubiquitous Pearson: The <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.pearson.com\/home\/news\/2011\/september\/pearson-to-develop-frameworks-for-oecds-pisa-student-assessment-for-2015.html\">OECD<\/a> asks Pearson to help it out \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.pearson.com\/global-learning-programme.html\">Pearson<\/a> champions global learning (a process smoothed by the ever-generous UK\u00a0tax-payer) \u2013 QED. \u00a0I think this is called a virtuous spiral \u2013 if you're Pearson.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The news that the OECD\u2019s PISA education league tables will include a measure on global competences in 2018 must come as a relief to those responsible for school education across Wales, as \u2013 of course \u2013 it will mean that...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}