CONTENTS
Report Aims
1
Who benefits from working with schools
2
When and How to work with schools
3
Ideas for Collaboration
7
The A Level Curriculum and recent reforms
13
Other Study Options
15
Key Transition Issues
16
Perspectives on Transition
20
Online Resources
26
Bibliography
28
Useful Contacts and Information
29
Acknowledgements: This History Subject Centre would like to thank the following people for their research and direct input into this report: ● ● ● ●
Sarah Richardson (Director of History at the Higher Education Academy) Rebecca Sullivan (CEO Historical Association) Barbara Hibbert (Head of History at Harrogate Grammar School) Arthur Chapman ( Lecturer in History Education, Institute of Education)
● Edited by Lisa Lavender (Academic Co-ordinator, History at the Higher Education Academy) We also appreciate the inspiration provided by the English Subject Centre’s Seed Guide on ‘Working with Secondary Schools: a guide for higher education English’: and their agreement in reproducing some of the generic elements that make up the guide.
Note on Terminology For reasons of clarity and brevity, in this guide we use ‘students’ to refer to higher education learners and ‘pupils’ to refer to secondary school learners; ‘lecturers’ for those teaching in higher education and ‘teachers’ for those teaching in secondary education. This guide also concentrates predominantly on English schools; it is worth noting that differences may occur in Scottish, Welsh and Irish schools.