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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
Jamie is giving away a free copy of the newish Banyard and Grayson book to celebrate psychblog.co.uk being a year old. (I refuse to call it a Birthday though Jamie) To have a chance of winning this excellent book all you have to do is go over to ...
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Sunday, April 13th, 2008
For psychology, candidates currently working towards their AS exams in May, and A2 exams in July there will still be a number of opportunities for re-sits.
AS re-sits will be available in January 2009 and then the following May 2009. No more re-sits of the current AS psychology exams will ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
The draft 2009 psychology GCSE specifications from OCR and AQA have been published.
The drafts have to be submitted to the regulators in April 2008 and the specifications will be available from September 2008, with first teaching from September 2009.
Edexcel and WJEC have announced that they will offer GCSE psychology from ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Steve Taylor from onlineclassroom.tv has kindly provided psychnews.co.uk with an excellent DVD to give away as a prize.
Classic Studies in Psychology 1 is a best selling, smashing DVD, which consists of a five short video programmes designed to give teachers the flexibility to integrate illustrative video material into their lessons. ...
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Saturday, March 15th, 2008
OCR has introduced a website devoted to the new changes to GCSEs. The site www.GCSEchanges.co.uk has information and updates relating to the new GCSEs for first teaching in September 2009.
The draft specifications for GCSE psychology will be available next month and you can register on the site for updates. The ...
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
Following the successful insight conferences held in January, OCR has provided a number of resources for those teachers unable to attend the events. I attended the Leeds event and it was excellent.
On this page you can listen to the full length speeches from Mark Griffiths and Rebecca Rhodes. There are ...
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
OCR ‘recognise achievement’ and are providing psychology teachers with the opportunity to buy the January 2008 question papers and mark schemes. How magnanimous.
Past papers are priced at just £1.60 each, with the corresponding qualification mark scheme priced at £5.10.
But hey “The past papers are available for immediate dispatch; due to ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
Philip Allan Updates have announced the dates and times for their workshops for the new A level specifications. They are offering workshops for teachers of the OCR, AQA (A), AQA (B), and Edexcel specifications.
Below are the latest workshops for teachers.
Preparing to teach the new OCR AS Psychology specification
London
16/05/2008
Preparing to ...
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Friday, January 11th, 2008
In March at the University of Cumbria (Carlisle) the applied health psychology lecturers are planning to put on a day of lecture/workshop sessions on several health psychology topics. They are aimed at OCR psychology students following the Health option.
The event will held at Learning Gateway Lecture Theatre, Fusehill Street Campus, ...
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Friday, January 4th, 2008
There are quite a few events for the 2008 specifications going on this year but so far, this one has to be easily the most interesting.
OCR is offering two free events for psychology teachers thinking of offering OCR specifications for 2008.
As well as giving an overview of the new qualification, ...
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