The benefits of studying level 3 maths The 2015 A level and AS reforms decoupled the AS qualification from the A level and resulted in a dramatic drop in AS entries across all subjects. However NEC noticed an increase in enrolments for AS maths over the past couple of years and this made us curious […]
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International Women’s Day Student Story: The NEC A level English Literature course was my 1970s lifesaver!
International Women’s Day is a chance to celebrate women, highlight inequality and challenge biases. Dr Jacqueline Jeynes studied with NEC in the 1970s and has gone on to gain a PhD. Her story is one of resilience and determination. Please note that this post contains themes of domestic abuse and coercive control, and we understand […]
Lessons from lockdown – do we need to create an open school for the UK?
Peter Lavender OBE discusses lessons from lockdown, the impact of the Covid-19 lockdown on attitudes towards distance learning, and the need to create an open school for the UK. At the start of lockdown in the UK, educationists were not short of ideas on how things could change. A notable comment included the significant voices […]
Guest article: “An A level in art history can open up many possibilities”
No-one ever told me that there was a subject called ‘art history’ when I was at my school in Yorkshire, I had to wait until I discovered it at University. I changed my degree choice from English to the subject that I have had the joy of teaching and researching for the last 25 years […]