Geography Matters - The Newsletter of the Post-16 & HE Committee
About Geography Matters
Geography Matters is a free newsletter produced by the GA's Post-16 & HE Phase Committee. It features articles on a range of issues affecting Post-16 geography education.
Geography Matters - Spring 2013
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- Chair’s Notes
- Egypt and the Arab Spring Helen Hore 3
- New technology can enhance teaching in Geography
- British School
- Setting up a GA local branch for sixth formers
- PGCE to NQT
- Analysis of change in A-level grades requirements
- My favourite case study
- The Growth of Business Tourism in Barcelona
- Who are the Post 16-HE Phase Committee?
Greener Urban Transport
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Geography Matters - Spring 2012
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- Chairs Notes
- Student Voices: promoting A level Geography
- Studying Geography at University: is it for me?
- En route for Oxbridge
- Using GIS to investigate coastal management - for real or virtual fieldwork
- Statistical Enquiry into Water and Wealth
- Piracy, supply shocks and energy security
- Globalisation of health: is the world feeling better?
- Who are the Post 16-HE Phase Committee?
Geography Matters - Spring 2011
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- The view from the Chair, Viv Pointon
- Sustainable Living in the Middle East
- Foreign direct investment in tourism
- Cuba and superpowers
- Pre-U: a genuine alternative?
- Every picture tells a story! The Guardian Eyewitness series
- Managing hazards - dealing with risk
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- An arid discussion while others feel the heat
- Global climate change and water supplies: winners and losers
- Opportunities for Geography in the 14 – 19 Humanities and Social Sciences Diploma
- June at Chichester College
- The globalisation of health: funding health in the developing world
- The School Seismology project
- Another take on 'A Different View' from an (access to) HE perspective
- Conference 2010 Events
- Chair's notes
- From the Editor
- Some guidelines for contributors
- Is the world really in the grip of a food crisis?
- The Big Dry: The Australian drought and the Murray Darling basin
- Investigating river flooding in Uckfield, East Sussex
- Crowded coasts, rebranded urban places and some old-fashioned regional geography
- Developing coastal fieldwork
- And finally…
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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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