Transcript Linking London conference, July 2012

Linking
London conference: July 2012
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A sixth form college perspective
Newham sixth form college: NewVIc
A successful learning community
NewVIc facts
•759 students progressed to university in 2011
•300+ honours students (GCSE average of B+), achieving
average points of A*A*A
•3 students progressed to Oxford or Cambridge in 2011,
9 over 5 years
•42 students progressed to Russell group in 2011,
265 over 5 years
•Medical, law, humanities and STEM pathways
•Sixth Form Bacc values achievement and service learning
•Leadership programme, 100 leadership bursaries
•Home to Newham Academy of Music, music bursaries
•Proud to be comprehensive and promote social cohesion
Excellence and ambition
Continuous growth
Growth in student numbers 1998-2011
3000
No. of students
2500
2000
1500
1000
500
0
Year
Continuous improvement
Points per entry NewVIc 1998-2011
100
90
% of national average
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
Year
NewVIc points per entry
have now converged with
the national average:
roughly grade C
Continuous improvement
Points per student NewVIc 1998-2011
100
% of national average
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
Year
Progression to HE
No. progressing to HE
800
84% of NewVIc applicants
progressed to HE in 2011
SFC average: 81%
Private school average: 83%
No. of students
700
600
500
400
300
200
100
0
Years 2006-2011
Progression of
Honours students
Class of 2011: 141 honours students
• All who wanted to (95%) progressed to HE
• 30% to Russell group.
• Overall: average points equivalent to A*A*A
• 24 actually achieved AAB+
Class of 2012: 148 Honours students
Class of 2013: 186 Honours students
Class of 2014: ?
Results and Progression
A growing number: 2010 to 2013
• 5 grade A students: Took 3.5 A levels, achieved VA
(value added) of +21 and 3+ grade A’s each
• GCSE grade B students: Took 3.3 A levels, achieved VA
of +17 and at least ABB
• 95%+ to HE, 10%+ to Russell
Group universities
• 15 achieved 3+ A’s at A level,
24 AAB+
Success rates
Value added
Accepted applicants to higher
education by provider type
% of accepted applicants to HE
from least advantaged areas of UK
Some comparisons 1
Sixth form college students are well represented among
the country’s 200 highest achieving providers
Top 200 schools for AL points
providers
A2 students
% total
Private schools
97
8,814
30.3%
State schools
95
12,584
43.2%
8
7,728
26.5%
Sixth form colleges
All 200 have average points equivalent to at least A*AA + A at AS
Some comparisons 2
A2 students
PPS
Oxbridge
NewVIc top 32
32
1018
3 (9%)
Brighton college all
England average
182
1016
18(10%)
An equally successful cohort
728.2
2A*s and 1 A at A level and 1 A at AS is equivalent to: 1005 points
A higher achieving cohort
NewVIc top 203
Seven Kings all 203
England average
3 A’s at A level is equivalent to 810 points
A2 students
PPS
PPE
203
851.7
257.3
203
825.0
233.8
728.2
213.1
Some comparisons 3
£/student
£/AL point
Eton (boarding only)
31,000
30.60
Harrow (boarding only)
31,000
28.84
Wellington
Highgate
Brighton college
22,804
22.74
16,000
18.00
18,000
17.71
City of London
NewVIc
13,000
13.09
5,400
8.46
Value for money?
With the level of funding of Eton or Harrow, NewVIc would have a budget of £84M per
annum. With that income we’d be only too happy to make boarding available!
“World class
achievement and
benchmarks are
superficial, if not
absurd, in a world
filled with
inequality, fear and
uncertainty.”
Maxine Greene
Working at the boundary
Misunderstanding, ignorance, nasty stories, blame…
or
Respect, dialogue, understanding, shared purpose,
creativity…
“Creativity takes courage”
Henri Matisse
“We only think when we
are confronted with a
problem”
“Conflict is the gadfly of
thought”
John Dewey
“Development is
precisely the
struggle of
opposites”
Lev Vygotsky
“All invention and
progress comes from
finding a link between
two ideas that have
never met”
Theodore Zeldin
“Where the world has
not been broken up into
fragments by narrow
domestic walls…where
the clear stream of
reason has not lost its
way into the dreary
desert sand of dead
habit…”
Rabindranath Tagore
6 observations…
•Increased selection by grade rather than
skills and knowledge prerequisites?
•Increased GCSE requirements?
•Less choice for non-AAB students
•Reduction in “general education” degrees
in recruiting HEIs?
•Facilitating subjects undermining nonfacilitiating subjects?
•Polarisation / Russell-isation of debate?
Excellence and ambition
6 suggestions…
•Work with London SFCs, we are local
hubs: 18,500 students, 6,500 A2s.
•Defend “rigorous vocationalism”
•Ensure all A-level subjects can “facilitate”
•Promote opportunities for degree level
liberal education at all levels (eg: CCC)
•Work together to develop Extended
Project opportunities
•Open up Central London HEIs to SFCs
Excellence and ambition
“Education is the
point at which we
decide whether we
love the world
enough to assume
responsibility for it.”
Hannah Arendt