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BCF launch event

The British Curriculum Forum (BCF) invites you to its launch on Saturday June 18th 2016. Over the last decade we have witnessed the radical transformation of the British educational landscape....

Educational leadership: what are the current issues and how should they be studied?

2016 is a great time to review the state of educational leadership research and reflect on firstly, what are the key contemporary issues and secondly, how best to research them. Educational...

STEAM Education and Inclusion: Connecting Practice, Research and Theory

Research Commission: Reviewing the Potential and Challenges of Developing STEAM Education

The ºÚÁÏÍø911 Commission on Reviewing the potential and challenges of developing STEAM education through creative pedagogies for 21st learning: seminar series 2nd SEMINAR - ºÚÁÏÍø911 RESEARCH COMMISSION:...

Professional development and the Teaching Schools experiment in England: Leadership challenges in an Alliance’s first year

Launched in England from 2010, Teaching Schools are intended to drive improvement across the education system by forming partnerships or ‘alliances’ with other schools and providers to share...

Learning Styles: living with the Monster

There have been a lot of monster metaphors in recent blog posts about Learning Styles [ http://www.tes.com.c.tes.ent.platform.sh/news/blog/why-does-idea-learning-styles-keep-getting-resurrected...

Tree of Life

The existing research indicates a need for flexible psychosocial strengths based tool well suited to working with children and adults who have had traumatic or difficult life histories. The Tree...

Knowledge, exam boards, and school subjects

The place of ‘knowledge’ in the school curriculum is highly contested. Schools Minister Nick Gibb recently claimed that in the thousands of lessons he has observed, knowledge is ‘relegated...

Postgraduate Forum Series – South: Dilemmas in Educational Research

This event is now fully booked. There are still bursaries available to attend the event in the North (/event/postgraduate-forum-series-north) and Midlands...

Opportunity: Two Positions at the Centre for Research in Race and Education (CRRE)

The Centre for Research in Race and Education (CRRE) at Birmingham University is looking for two outstanding candidates to take forward its work on racism and education. The posts offer three...

Accountability in prison education: a need for better-designed measures as well as more transparency

Prison education has been high on the Government’s reform agenda recently, with Michael Gove bringing a focus on the area to the Ministry of Justice from the Department for Education and...

The beginnings of school-led teacher training: New challenges for university teacher education

The School Direct Research Project undertaken by a team of academics from Manchester Metropolitan University concludes five years of research into the effects of school–led training on the...

Asa Briggs – a champion of history and education

The first issue of the journal History of Education, published in 1972, was notable for the contributions of distinguished figures in the history of education itself and of social history more...