What are we educating for?
Although it has always been significant, the question of what we are educating for is now particularly important. There is growing consensus that the educational challenges we face require...
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What are we educating for in higher education?
It might have been easier to identify the purpose of higher education in the early part of the 20th century, when the few students who went to university came from a narrow demographic background...
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Problems with a transactional view of higher education
In the past two or three decades there has been a fundamental shift from seeing higher education in essentially educative terms to seeing it almost exclusively in transactional terms. Young people...
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The SDGs and Higher Education: impacts on policy and practice
The United Nations Member States adopted The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in 2015. This Agenda continues to provide a global focus on peace and prosperity, both for people and the...
The SDGs and Higher Education: impacts on policy and practice
The United Nations Member States adopted The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in 2015. This Agenda continues to provide a global focus on peace and prosperity, both for people and the...
Winter 2023/24
Research Intelligence issue 157: Research & practice on migration & education across the four nations of the UK
Ethics in Practice: Showcasing examples of good ethical practice in practitioner research
The Practitioner Research SIG hosted an event on 20th April 2023 in which our speaker discussions centred around the idea that guiding ethical principles for education research need to be both...
Ethics in Practice: Showcasing examples of good ethical practice in practitioner research
The Practitioner Research SIG hosted an event on 20th April 2023 in which our speaker discussions centred around the idea that guiding ethical principles for education research need to be both...
Initial teacher education: Are we missing something?
Initial teacher education (ITE) has increasingly come under public and political scrutiny in several countries due to a growing focus on competitive international rankings (Douglas-Gardner &...
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Generating research income versus REF results: What is the relationship?
On 12 May 2022, the results of the United Kingdom’s Research Excellence Framework 2021 (REF2021) were released. Generally known as ‘the REF’, this framework exists to assess and hold...
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Guest editing opportunity for Research Intelligence, issue 159
The future of academic publishing
Effective entrepreneurship education: The role of individual traits, creativity and passion for learning
Entrepreneurship is an important tool for reducing unemployment, speeding up economic growth, and fostering innovation and social reform; hence, entrepreneurship is now recognised as a valuable...
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