Par Marcel Lebrun et Gemma Serrano. Dans notre première contribution, nous avons essentiellement présenté et commenté la version originale de la classe inversée. Selon les pratiques observées et nos recherches, nous avons cependant constaté auprès d’enseignants à différents niveaux, de l’école primaire à l’enseignement supérieur, une émergence d’une large variété de classes inversées orientées vers une prise en charge de plus en plus grande de l’apprentissage par l’apprenant lui-même. Voir l'article...

Par Sylvain Connac et Laurent Lescouarch. À l’orée de la Première Guerre mondiale, « plus jamais ça » semble être l’idée forte de Célestin Freinet qui l’a poussé à engager en France à partir des années 1930 un grand mouvement de refonte pédagogique. Voir l'article...

Par Christophe Morin et Nicolas Dubois. Jusqu’à récemment, l’université s’est peu préoccupée de ces transformations pédagogiques, qu’elle ne peut plus ignorer désormais. L’adaptation de la pédagogie universitaire a, de plus, tout intérêt à s’appuyer sur les technologies numériques pour améliorer la réussite des étudiants, notamment en première année, là où les taux de décrochage sont les plus importants. Voir l'article...

By Robert A Hart and Mirko Moro. Signals that Theresa May is in favour of relaxing rules banning the creation of new selective grammar schools in England have provoked robust attacks from opponents of the plan. More...

By David Hogan. For more than a decade, Singapore, along with South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Finland, has been at or near the top of international leagues tables that measure children’s ability in reading, maths and science. This has led to a considerable sense of achievement in Finland and East Asia and endless hand-wringing and head-scratching in the West. More...

By Simon Holloway. For the last 30 years or so the rise of creative writing programmes in universities has been met with seemingly unending howls of derision from all quarters. Hanif Kureishi, novelist, screenwriter – and professor of creative writing at Kingston University – described them as a “waste of time”. But universities around the world beg to differ, as the increasing number of courses and students testify. More...

By Pasi Sahlberg. Finland’s plans to replace the teaching of classic school subjects such as history or English with broader, cross-cutting “topics” as part of a major education reform have been getting global attention, thanks to an article in The Independent, one of the UK’s trusted newspapers. Stay calm: despite the reforms, Finnish schools will continue to teach mathematics, history, arts, music and other subjects in the future. More...

By Karan Bilimoria. For more than 200 years the histories of India and Britain have been closely intertwined. Forged in the age of the empire, the bond between our two nations is nonetheless one that has become mutually enriching. More...

By Johanna Waters. The home secretary, Amber Rudd, has outlined plans for a new student immigration system that would make it harder for graduating students to work in the UK. In her speech at the Conservative Party conference Rudd revealed government plans to create “two-tier visa rules” which would affect poorer quality universities and courses. This would essentially mean that “lesser” UK universities will be discouraged from recruiting international students. More...

By Samantha Pegg. A number of universities have recently tried to combat the problem of sexual violence on campus by holding talks and workshops to ensure students fully understand the limits of consent and acceptable sexual behaviour. More...