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Geography Matters - The Newsletter of the Post-16 & HE Committee

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The Post 16 & HE Phase Committee produce a twice-yearly newsletter, Geography Matters, which focuses on news and issues currently facing teachers involved in Post 16 geographical education. The newsletter can be downloaded as a Word document below.

 

Geography Matters - Spring 2008 (4.2M)

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  • Chair's notes
  • Obituary: Alan Marriott
  • Editorial: Changing Geography – again!
  • How to choose a Geography specification for the 21st century
  • A preview of the Pre-U
  • A view from the front line
  • Summarising the AS/A level specifications
  • Fieldwork at AS/A2 level from 2008
  • Geography and the new 14-19 Diplomas
  • Out and about in Yorkshire
  • Sustainable tourism: contemporary issues and challenges
  • 2008: The GA Conference in Guildford
Geography Matters - Spring 2007 (4.6M)

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  • Chair's notes
  • Editorial: The future for A Levels
  • An analysis of change in A Level grade requirements for HE between 2002 and 2007
  • The transition from A Level to degree geography: Discussions with staff and students at selected universities
  • Behind the waterfall: Why do fieldwork?
  • Report on the GA Post-16 & HE Holbeck Urban Village field excursion, October 2006
Geography Matters - Spring 2006 (4.6M)

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  • Chair's notes
  • Editorial: The Changing Face of Geography
  • Good News for Geography - and Good News for the GA: The Action Plan for Geography
  • Adult Learning
  • Urban Regeneration: Holbeck Urban Village, Leeds
  • Using Differentiation in Case Study Teaching
  • A case study of suburbanisation: Monkspath in Solihul
Geography Matters - Spring 2005 (1.5M)

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  • Editorial: Geography at the coal face or the mouse mat?
  • Geography: 14-19 - The Tomlinson proposals - A geography response to some of the main points.
  • Marine tourism: a case study of sustainable marine tourism in the Maldives.
  • Uganda: An example of local innovation in response to international change.
  • Living in a Globalised World.
  • Madeira – a modern holiday paradise or development chaos?
  • River Restoration - Has your local river had a make-over?
  • The Leeds Waterfront: Urban Regeneration Field Excursion and Update.
  • Historical Geography: Expanding National Archive of Railway Oral History.
Geography Matters - Summer 2004 (97k)

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  • Editorial
  • Chair’s Notes
  • UGANDA: An example of local innovation in response to international change
  • PACKAGING PLACES: Place promotion with reference to bids made by UK cities to become European Capital of Culture 2008
  • In Remembrance of George Metcalfe and Brian Harris
  • REVIEW: 'Geomorphology Resource Pack: Upper Wharfedale'
  • Notice Board

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