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In 2014, when I started my PhD at the University of Huddersfield about globalisation and higher education in Vietnam, I found myself thinking, ‘Why do I need to go halfway around the world to do...
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The internationalisation webinar series has been running since 2007 as part of an initiative organised by Dr Joanna Al-Youssef (University of Nottingham). It is an open event during which...
Wellbeing discourses related to children and young people are on the rise not only in research, but also in policy and practice. Often the construct of wellbeing is used as a measure of quality of...
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This extensively revised, expanded and updated fourth edition of BERA's Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research is designed to support educational researchers in conducting research to the...
CALL FOR PROPOSALS Deadline 4th May 2018 This exciting joint conference (with the University of Worcester and the BERA Comparative and International Education SIG) entitled ‘Global...
External provision is developing as a trend in schools worldwide, and physical education is no exception to this trend – see for instance New Zealand (Dyson et al 2016), the UK (Griggs 2010,...
Continue reading blog postThe Irish education system includes a quasi-gap year, known as transition year (TY), midway through secondary school. Students may choose to complete six years of secondary education (including TY...
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Venue: Technocentre, Coventry University Speaker: Prof. Jos Beelen, Visiting Professor, The Hague University of Applied Sciences Video record of the lecture: We are pleased to...
The increased demand for education as a tradable commodity has seen a growing number of international students seeking UK qualifications over the past decade (OECD, 2009). It is becoming...
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Keynote Speaker: Dr Viv Caruana, Leeds Beckett University Internationalisation has become a common term often within neo-liberal discussions of the university. This conference seeks to explore...
Schools are institutions in which racial conflict is brought into focus and can be acute. Gillborn (2008) asserts that current education policy is not designed to eliminate race inequality, but to...
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The study of education consists of a range of traditions with distinct origins, purposes and foci. Judge and colleagues have shown how education developed as a field of study in markedly different...
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