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Although recruitment to undergraduate degrees in engineering in the UK has risen slightly in recent years, concerns remain. Last year, Engineering UK predicted an ongoing 20,000+ shortfall in...
Continue reading blog postIn 1973, at the beginning of the 1970s international oil crisis, and amid emergent Watergate revelations, Paul Simon sang ‘we come in the age’s most uncertain hour...’. At around the same...
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We hear a lot about social mobility, especially during elections. Political parties and governments often use social mobility (alongside keywords such as opportunity, potential and justice) as a...
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Social mobility has become an essential policy solution, an apparent panacea for inequality, injustice and unfairness (Hoskins & Barker, 2014). The idea of individuals transcending their...
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In recognising Brexit as a game changer, Teresa May entered Number 10 Downing Street with a commitment to restore the fortunes of working families and to narrowing egregious inequalities in...
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ISSUE 131 OF RESEARCH INTELLIGENCE International Complexities Ethos of Internationalism Funding and Research After Brexit FEATURING ALIS OANCEA ELEANOR GURNEY GARY...
I have been pondering the effect of the neo-liberal economic and social world order on education and everyday life. In many ways the neo-liberal mantra is accepted as a kind of monolith – a...
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ISSUE 130 OF RESEARCH INTELLIGENCE CHARACTER, VALUES AND ETHICS CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION, SOCIAL JUSTICE AND BREXIT FEATURING AUDREY OSLER TOM HARRISON MATTHEW BAWDEN SHAMIM...
In one sense, of course, it has nothing to do with education – certainly not with schools. The EU referendum may be more important than a General Election but education policy is not a...
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