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Steven Richards-Downes

I am a part time Doctoral Student at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. Researching learner and teacher perspectives of digital technology. I also have a post humanist interest in...

Hauwa Imam

Hauwa Imam has over 40 years of diverse experience as a secondary school teacher, educational administrator, and university academic. A professor at the University of Abuja since 2011, she has...

Brokering experimental knowledge for educational policy and practice

In recent years, governments have moved social policy towards being ‘evidence-based’. To give just two examples, in the US the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) restricts funding to...

Adrian Simpson

Adrian Simpson is the principal of St Mary’s College and Professor of Mathematics Education at Durham University. His research focuses on the school–university transition in mathematics,...

Beverley McCormick

Beverley McCormick is a Lecturer of Education and the Course Director of the PGCE Primary at Ulster University. She is an active STEM ambassador having received recognition as Outstanding STEM...

Assessment at 11? Questioning the impact of academic selection in Northern Ireland

Imagine undergoing a high stakes education assessment at the age of 11, and that result dictating many of the options available to you for the rest of your life. The detrimental impact of academic...

Editorial – Unpacking the complexities and challenges of education in Northern Ireland: stimulating debate with Ulster University’s Transforming Education project

Curriculum: Theory, policy and practice

The rationale for how education operates is often contentious. There are varying views about academic selection, politicians disparage some degrees while lauding others, private schools’...

Citizenship education in Northern Ireland: an opportunity for transformation squandered?

The Independent Review of Education in Northern Ireland asserts that ‘education is the greatest investment any society makes in its own future’, bringing ‘societal benefits’ (Independent...

Transforming education, one paper at a time

There is a tendency to become habituated to our surroundings – we stop noticing features of the world around us. This has happened in Northern Ireland with regards to our divided social...

Transforming education in Northern Ireland: foregrounding the best interests of the child

This blog post is a little different. Using my background as an advocate for children, I reflect on what they require from an education system that is so often not designed to serve their needs....

Unpacking the complexities and challenges of education in Northern Ireland

Stimulating debate with Ulster University’s Transforming Education project

Reimagining a system for education in Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland education has just had an Independent Review . It remarked that: ‘Northern Ireland could significantly benefit if unnecessary fragmentation or duplication, where they exist,...