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Jul 30, 20201 min read

Ofqual Consultation Summer Series 2021 & Curriculum Observatory

The MEA is currently canvassing all members for their opinions and experiences on a range of issues related to the impact of Covid on the...

Oct 3, 20191 min read

Rewriting Education: The Legacy of Michael Gove

In light of a new biography, I revisit the policies and philosophy of the UK’s most influential education minister of recent times. In...

Oct 2, 20191 min read

Fake News or Media Literacy? An Exciting New Toolkit of Approaches.

Earlier this year a research team at the Centre for Excellence in Media Practice (CEMP, based in Bournemouth University) led a project...

Jul 28, 20191 min read

Media Literacy vs. Fake News

Recommendations from CEMP research, Bournemouth University As many as possible of the citizens of a democracy must be not only literate...

Jul 19, 20191 min read

Media in English - reasons to be cheerful?

As media education has effectively disappeared from the government’s prescriptions for English teaching, what are the prospects for the...

Jun 25, 20191 min read

Changing English - Disappearing Media

Media education has been eradicated from the English (mother tongue language and literature) curriculum in England. Why has this...

Jun 19, 20192 min read

Ticking the boxes: what’s wrong with set texts

In the wake of government reforms, it’s now examiners who choose the texts that UK media students will study – not their teachers, or...

Apr 28, 20194 min read

INTERNATIONAL FILM EDUCATION SYMPOSIUM – BRADFORD, MARCH 2019

Michelle Cannon attended a film education symposium in Bradford at the end March 2019 representing the MEA. Here's what happened: In June...

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