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Bill Lucas
All articles by Bill Lucas
‘To produce more engineers, schools must focus on engineering habits of mind as well as on Steam subjects’
Teaching engineering ‘habits of mind’ and capabilities will set young people up for the future, writes a leading educationist
3 April 2017
‘Soft skills are a vital part of education - and students should be assessed on them’
16 January 2017
‘If “soft skills” really matter then we should try to measure them’
Countries need to explicitly care about human dignity and value cultural diversity as well as wanting to move up the Pisa performance league table, writes a leading educationalist
13 January 2017
‘Forget technical and professional education: there’s nothing wrong with the word vocational’
Ditching the term ‘vocational’ is likely to perpetuate an even more corrosive split than the academic versus vocational divide, writes a leading educationalist
25 November 2016
‘Character is a meaningful concept, is learned at least as much as it is taught and can be woven into a school’s culture’
There is more work to do in understanding the most reliable signature pedagogies and the most effective co-curricular learning for characterful capability. But it can definitely work, writes a leading educationist
23 September 2016
Pedagogy can oil the wheels of vocational education
The Sainsbury review is welcome, but we must go much further to truly meet learners’ needs
23 September 2016