English GCSE Crisis: MEETING

The English Exams Crisis

Are you still angry about this year’s GCSE English exam fiasco?

All English teachers, Heads of English and other concerned colleagues are invited to an extraordinary LATE meeting to share what happened in their schools and to discuss how we can campaign on this issue. PGCE English student teachers will be very welcome.

Friends Meeting House, 173-177 Euston Road, London
NW1 2BJ
www.friendshouse.co.uk/getting-here

www.friendshouse.co.uk/getting-here

6.30 p.m. Monday 1^st October 2012

There will be short presentations from the following panel to be followed by open discussion from the floor.

·      Simon Gibbons, Chair NATE (Simon will chair this meeting)

·      John Hodgson, NATE’s Research Officer

·      Jo Rawlings, Head of English

·      John Yandell, Institute of Education

·      Michael Rosen, poet and broadcaster

Please forward this information urgently to friends and colleagues through email, Facebook and Twitter.

Best wishes,

John Wilks

(LATE General Secretary)