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In this blog post, I focus on what is distinctive about vocational education. What makes vocational education different and why is this important? First, and most critically, vocational education...
Continue reading blog postIt 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...
Continue reading blog postThe recent announcement in England about extending free childcare for working parents seemed like very good news. The offer, to be realised over two to three years, included free childcare of 30...
Continue reading blog postIn 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...
Continue reading blog postThe overall question of this BERA Blog special issue can be understood in two different ways: what is being done now at the current time by educators (what are we educating for), and it can also...
Continue reading blog postWe know that the primary timetable is overcrowded, testing is embedded in almost every year of a child’s primary schooling (Wyse et al., 2022), and expectations of what teachers must cover grow...
Continue reading blog postIn December 1987, Secretary of State for Education Kenneth Baker summed up the purpose of the Education Reform Bill as ‘standards, freedom and choice’. Underpinning the bill was the belief...
Continue reading blog postDr Jennifer Agbaire is an academic at the School of Education, Childhood and Youth at The Open University, UK. Her research interests are around social identities, inequalities and inclusion as...
Naomi Flynn is Professor of Multilingual Education at the University of Reading Institute of Education. She is School Director of Postgraduate Research Studies, a teacher educator, and a member of...
Feminism is a concept and a practice. As a concept feminism is polysemic, semantically contested, networked, interactive, powerful and dynamic. An important binary that has had real effects in the...
Continue reading blog postMartin Doel was appointed as the first Professor of Leadership in Further Education and Skills at University College London (Institute of Education) in April 2016 after having previously been the...
Gorana Henry is currently leading the Primary PGCE Programme at UCL’s Institute of Education. She is passionate about children’s primary education, and outcomes for pupils from minoritised and...
