Yacapaca – Great teachers spend less time marking and more time teachi...

The new DfE guidance is out, here. The aim is to “prevent harm”. The rules are all stated in the form “thou shalt not…” There’s nothing wrong with any one of these rules; I support most of them. But … before we all settle back into our torpor, let’s...

We all know that British education is in a mess, but recent discourse about how we got into this mess has tended to repeat the American discourse that schools were designed from the start to produce a literate, numerate, and above all, compliant workforce...

After 20 years of service to education, Yacapaca has now closed down. Thank you for your custom, your contribution, your enthusiasm, whatever it was you personally brought to Yacapaca. It’s been a great ride and I am grateful to have had your companionship...

With Yacapaca approaching the end of its service, you may want to preserve the work you have put in over the years by export the assessments you have authored. Although there is no formal ‘export’ feature, there is an easy workaround using ChatGPT, and...