Â鶹ÒùÔº

Achieving mastery: Pupils’ perspectives on engaging with feedback and assessment in secondary school

Introduction  Assessment and feedback play a key role in pupils’ learning at all levels of education. However, there is much debate about whether feedback, in particular, is given in a way...

Diane Swift

Di Swift is chair of Stoke and Staffordshire Teacher Education Collective (SSTEC), which is made up of providers who support both initial and continuing education. She is a fellow of the Chartered...

Jim Dees

Jim Dees is the headteacher of West Lodge Primary School.

M. Mahruf Chowdhury Shohel

Dr M. Mahruf C. Shohel is currently working as the group head of research, innovation and scholarship engagement at the Bedford College Group and a visiting faculty at the University of...

2022/2023 BCF Curriculum Investigation Grant Awarded to 3 Schools and Colleges

Â鶹ÒùÔº and the BCF are pleased to announce that the 2022/2023 BCF Curriculum Investigation Grant has been awarded to 3 UK schools and colleges. The BCF Curriculum Investigation Grant is intended to...

Majority of British Pakistanis are actually Kashmiris (who speak Pahari)

Since 1991 our schools have been gathering ethnicity data. This has helped us to know how many children were from which ethnic group and what language they spoke. The exception has been children...

When the object becomes the subject: Redefining the Teachers’ Standards as ‘learner standards’

In England, the Teachers' Standards are often used formatively to guide quality improvement towards a final summative, quality assurance process which takes place to ensure that the standards have...

Gary Standinger

Gary J Standinger is a teacher of physical education at a secondary academy and sixth form in south-west England and a part-time PhD student at Loughborough University. He recently submitted his...

Variation in Black students’ conceptions of academic support: A phenomenographic study

Race & Education: Â鶹ÒùÔº Small Grants Fund research reports

Inequalities in the educational achievement of minoritised students in higher education (HE) appear in a wide range of national contexts (Richardson, 2018), and are often attributed to structural...

The Birmingham Experience

Things To Do in Birmingham Looking for things to see & do in Birmingham?  Well… call off the search! Just look at all the attractions in Birmingham! If you’re after entertainment in...

Elina Wright

Dr Elina Wright conducts research at Regent's Park College, University of Oxford. She is also Visiting Senior Fellow at the World Religions and Education Research Unit (WRERU) at Lincoln Bishop...

Â鶹ÒùÔº Research Commission 2019–2020: Competing discourses in early childhood education and care

Tensions, impacts and democratic alternatives across the UK’s four nations