Living with Research
The English education system is riddled with contradictions and the call for teaching to become more of a research based profession is just one of them. This call raises a number of problems for...
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(Not) Being Seen as Students
With new students arriving in campuses across the country, now is a good a time as any to think about what it means to be, and to be seen as, a student in the UK. In July the Independent...
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Â鶹ÒùÔº Postgraduate Forum offers a MAXQDA License
The Â鶹ÒùÔº Postgraduate Forum is pleased to announce that Â鶹ÒùÔº has secured a one year MAXQDA license for a Â鶹ÒùÔº postgraduate researcher to utilise.MAXQDA is a professional software for qualitative...
Internationalisation Webinar Series
Webinar is now online at: Webinar 2015The internationalisation seminar/webinar series has been running since 2007 as part of an initiative organised by Dr Joanna Al-Youssef, University of...
Learning from the past: History qualifications in the 21st century
History is for human self-knowledge… the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teachers us what man has done and thus what man is. (R.G...
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Gaining insight through student voice
As I spend my last days of summer vacation in my classroom preparing for the start of my 25th new school year, I find myself reflecting on past classes, curriculum changes and my beliefs about...
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Annual Conference 2015
15th-17th September 2015 Queen's University Belfast The Â鶹ÒùÔº conference went back to Belfast after over 15 years since we were last here. Attended by over 700 delegates, this was the first...
What difference can be made to teacher practice in assessment for learning?
Most people want students to learn as well as possible, while being fiscally and time efficient. The majority of teachers do the best they can. Yet some students and teachers appear to achieve...
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Leadership for Democracy – BELMAS Day Conference
BELMAS Day Conference in collaboration with the Co-operative College, The Co-operative Head Office, ManchesterThe purpose of this conference is to consider the issue of whether leadership in...
Negotiating the Nation – Young people, national narratives and history education
This special issue of the London Review of Education will explore the multiple sources of young people’s historical knowledge – in collective memory and social conversation as well as in the...
OXBOW Schools…and worse
What name would you give to a school or group of schools that won’t share? ‘Oxbow’ sounds a good name to me, after those lakes that were once part of the mainstream but are now cut off to...
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Academic educationalists need to engage with teachers online or risk being side lined
As a teacher in Further Education (FE), I read a cross section of teacher blogs and engage with the debate that is burgeoning on social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook and the new blogging...
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