Chalk and Talk: An Educational Forum - Changing Curriculum

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Chalk and Talk: An Educational Forum - Changing Curriculum

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Details

Location

Belfast, Havelock House

Year

1987

Date

Transmission 21/07/1987

Length

26min 06sec

Audio

sound

Format

1 inch

colour

Source

Digitised as part of the UTV Archive Partnership Project (ITV, Northern Ireland Screen and PRONI)

Courtesy

Department for Communities, ITV, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland

Rights Holder

ITV

It is illegal to download, copy, print or otherwise utilise in any other form this material, without written consent from the copyright holder.

Description

Jill Cochrane guides a discussion regarding the changing curriculum in schools, whilst taking questions from a live studio audience.

Various points of view are conveyed, such as "will GCSE's lower standards?". The GCSE was to be introduced the following year (1988) - replacing the former CSE and O-Level qualifications - and was intended to raise standards, whilst incorporating a wider range of subjects. 

James Thompson (Headmaster Strabane High School), Tom Shaw (Staff Inspector for Secondary Schools), Prof. Peter Daws (University of Ulster) and Sister Anne O'Shea (Regional Co-ordinator 11-16 Development Programme) make up the panel and respond to these questions, whilst putting across their own opinions.  

Other topics discussed include; the extent of resources in place for projects, the need for ongoing teacher development, grammar schools compared to comprehensive schools and the need for more girls to take up technology-based subjects.

Notes

Chalk and Talk is a panel show which discusses the main problems that face education in Northern Ireland.

Credits

A UTV production

Presented by Jill Cochrane  

Senior Education Officer: George Fleeter

Academic Advisor: Dorothy Whittington

Assistant Advisor: Rosmary Donnelly

Director: Robert Lamrock

Producer: John Scobbie

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