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Â鶹ÒùÔº Annual Conference 2016 – Register now

Register now!Registration is now open, with the early bird deadline closing on the 1st May 2016. Register early and save up to £100 on registration fees.Don't forget to also book for the social...

The ‘nationalisation’ of schools

White Papers are unusual nowadays. Usually Secretaries of State rush too hastily to legislation which, in consequence of the haste, creates new and unforeseen problems. the Secretary of State...

The 2016 Education White Paper – a response

Local education authorities have been a bulwark of Conservatism. They were established by Arthur Balfour’s Education Act in 1902. Their role in education was entrenched by Rab Butler’s 1944...

Spring 2016

RESEARCH INTELLIGENCE ISSUE 129/SPRING 2016 The Future of Education  Featuring Carol Monaghan MP John O'Dowd MLA Daniel Muijs Debbie Weekes-Bernard John Preston Barbara Merrill

A return to the sociology of education?

Earlier this month, the IoE hosted a launch event for my new book, Research and Policy in Education: Evidence, ideology and impact, written with Jake Anders, Annette Hayton, Sarah Tang and Emma...

Dominic Wyse appointed a Fellow of AcSS

Many congratulations to Â鶹ÒùÔº Council member and one of the Editors of the Curriculum Journal, Dominic Wyse who has been awarded Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences.  Dominic was...

Beyond the school gates: reciprocal academic leadership

One of the features of the school improvement landscape over the past two decades has been a focus on developing school leadership and how this leadership is used to empower teachers in the quest...

Another fine mess! The allocation of initial teacher training places for 2016

In their excoriating analysis of The Blunders of our Governments, the political scientists Anthony King and Ivor Crewe offer twelve case studies, or 'horror stories', as they call them, from the...

Â鶹ÒùÔº Annual Conference 2016 – abstract notification

Notification emails have now been sent out to all abstract submitters for the Â鶹ÒùÔº Annual Conference 2016.Check your inboxes. Has your abstract been accepted?The volume and standard of abstracts...

Schools, community and the low attainment nexus

Research Commission: Poverty and Policy Advocacy

The Â鶹ÒùÔº Commission on Poverty and Policy Advocacy: seminar series Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email [email protected] for details of how to...

Teacher peer coaching; a story of trust, agency and enablers

This blog is a good news story in terms of teacher collaboration from The Hermitage Academy, a North-East Teaching School. The Academy has deliberately and steadily built a culture of teacher...

Call for Papers: Curriculum Journal Special issue edited by James Albright

Guest editor James Albright (The University of Newcastle, Australia)Revisiting the Principes pour une réflexion sur les contenus d’enseignment (Bourdieu, 1989)Volume 28 Issue 1, to be published...