I've been adding posts to a blog about the GCSE Natural History since the specification was first given the go ahead back in 2023. It's had about 40 000 page views which is not too bad, given that the specification isn't yet approved. There's also a Facebook page with over 800 members - the interest in the potential new specification is there. I've just posted the 450th post, which is cross-posted below. This is a visual representation of a thread that Mary Colwell recently posted on X (which I try to avoid linking to). She has started to realise what those of us involved in previous curriculum innovation know tends to happen when they come across the desks of those who shape it so that it will fulfil OFQUAL's thinking about what makes them examinable on a large scale. The OCR Pilot GCSE Geography was the most innovative examination I ever came across, and had the chance to change things in the longer term. The people developing it were able to keep a great ...
Cultural Geography and Geography in the Media. For students and teachers of Geography.