Consultations
We respond regularly to consultations and calls for evidence from government departments, Parliamentary Select Committees and other bodies.
Erasmus+: UCML letter to Secretary of State for Education
The Society is signatory to the 15 Jan 2021 letter from the University Council of Modern Languages to the Minister for Education to express our concerns at the withdrawal of the UK from the Erasmus+ Programme.
Regulating quality and standards in higher education
Our response to this OfS consultation expresses concern about proposed approaches to assessing student outcomes, in particular the use of graduate earnings.
Revised education for sustainable development (ESD) guidance
Our response to this QAA consultation welcomes the revised guidance and specific competencies, and argues that geospatial and environmental data skills should be given greater attention.
Review of post-16 qualifications at level 3 in England
Our response to this DfE consultation argues for pathway to support sectors and industries working with geospatial data, and supports funding for core maths and the Access to HE Diploma.
Department for Education/Ofqual consultation on how GCSE, AS and A level grades should be awarded in summer 2021
Our response to this consultation support teachers’ use of a wide range of evidence, that any papers provided by the Exam Boards be optional, and that (where practical) teachers give ‘broadly comparable’ weighting to their students’ NEAs.
Ofqual: Arrangements for non-exam assessment for qualifications in 2022
Our response to this Ofqual consultation calls for the reinstatement of fieldwork, with appropriate accommodations being made, for GCSE, AS and A Level geography over the 2021-22 cycle.
All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) Inquiry on Africa and its diaspora in the UK School Curricula1
Our response stresses that geography makes a distinctive and important contribution to learning about Africa and its diaspora in relation to teaching pupils about their contemporary and geographically diverse nature.
Proposed changes to the assessment of GCSEs, AS and A levels in 2022
Our response to this consultation rejects the proposals on the basis that they would introduce inequality into the assessment of GCSE geography in 2022.
Initial Teacher Training (ITT) market review
The Society does not wish to see geography’s positive progress constrained by additional stress placed on the supply of new geography teachers. It is for this reason that the Society cannot support the current recommendations with respect to the proposals for the accreditation and reaccreditation of courses and the recommended timescale.