I very much welcome the revival of the British Curriculum Forum and was delighted to attend the recent conference “Investigating Knowledge and the Curriculum”. My reason for attending is that...
My third daughter works in New York: the distance hasn’t changed the frequency of her communication with her sisters or her parents, and, at least once a week, she has a FaceTime conversation...
The EU's Four Freedoms: moving people, capital, goods and services across the field of European education The European market and the Union are based on, and shaped by, the Four Freedoms. These...
Politicians and teachers find access to educational research problematic. Teachers call for open access to research journals and some national teachers’ councils provide this (Scotland and the...
The government’s assessment of early reading, taken by hundreds of thousands of five- and six-year-olds in England every year, is not testing what it is supposed to test, research has...
Primary school children in London are more than eight times as likely to have received private tuition as their counterparts in Scotland, research being presented to BERA today has revealed. Some...
More than half of secondary school pupils believe that people have souls, a survey has revealed. Almost as many – 45 per cent – say they believe in God while 52 per cent agree with the...
The concept of “British values”, as promoted by the government in its anti-terrorism strategy, is leaving many school pupils baffled. And few of them have even heard of the “Prevent”...
The Royal Society and British Academy are launching a project today (14 September 2016) to determine how best to harness new and up-to-date research methodologies, using the latest technologies,...
Fewer than half of young secondary school pupils think their views are taken seriously by those educating them, a major new study has found. Perhaps unsurprisingly, almost all of their teachers...