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Can Swedish images of engineering help UK universities widen participation in engineering degrees?

Although recruitment to undergraduate degrees in engineering in the UK has risen slightly in recent years, concerns remain. Last year, Engineering UK predicted an ongoing 20,000+ shortfall in...

The educational implications of Lionel Shriver’s attack on diversity ‘quotas’

‘[I]f an agent submits a manuscript written by a gay transgender Caribbean who dropped out of school at seven and powers around town on a mobility scooter, it will be published,...

The social categories of gender, race, dis-ability, intelligence, sexuality and class in relation to education

There have recently been calls to adopt approaches to the study of the social world that deny the need to address ontological and epistemological issues. Advocates for these approaches give the...

LGBT+ inclusion in schools

In this blog I summarise key evidence from Stonewall’s latest School Report (Bradlow et al, 2017), a study of over 3,700 lesbian, gay, bi and trans (LGBT) young people across Britain aged...

‘The Talk’ – a play to get adults talking about relationship and sex education

A child puts a question in an anonymous box. What happens next? In 2017, Justine Greening, former secretary of state for education, announced that relationships and sex education (RSE) would be...

Consent education: Undoing the binary and embracing ambiguity

Over the last three years I have worked alongside diverse groups of young people, aged 13–25, to develop insight into what sexual consent might mean to them and why. I have also worked with 12...

Setting and the academic underachievement of white working class boys

The under-achievement of white working class boys in England is well documented. They are the lowest academic achievers at the age of 16 for any socio-economic class grouping (Sutton Trust, 2016),...

Why we all need liberating from education’s gender war

Statistics released last week show that almost half of all young people in the UK enter higher education. But some groups are still far more likely to go on to university than others.[1] Whereas...

Gender-related Violence (GRV) and Young People: Critical Responses in Research and Practice

GRV is a continuing issue in the lives of young people. Recent events include reporting widespread harassment in schools (Women and Equalities Report, 2016), the continued refusal to make PSHE...

Gender-related violence and young people: Critical responses in research and practice

Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk for details of how to register onsite. 'Sexual and gendered violence is a continuing...

Sexual harassment and abuse in schools: re-stating the case for comprehensive sex and relationships education

In September 2016, the Women and Equalities Committee reported on the high level of sexual violence routinely experienced by young women in schools and the need for urgent action. The report...

Stories of Change and Transformation and in Further Education

Transformational Further Education: Empowering People & Communities

From its origins as the Mechanics’ Institutes in the 1800s, FE has served industry by providing vocational skills to adults to meet the needs of business. However from the beginning it also...