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I’m currently reviewing some guidance as to how to make lecturing notes/teaching materials as accessible as possible. It is, of course, important to be as accessible to all as possible, but I am...
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Power to the People; Can Teacher Coaching be viewed as a form of Transformational Leadership?
There is something both alluring and disquieting about theories which can be summed up as a catchy combination of letters and numbers. They create a hook, something which we can engage with, may...
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The Adventure of Education
Is it possible to think about education as adventure? This is a question I raised in a recent article I wrote for the Journal of Education Administration and History (Tamboukou 2016). The idea...
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Developing a cohesive strategy for leading learning inside education?
I read Ian Potter’s blog post ‘Can we learn together?’ with interest having spoken to him at Belmas back in the Summer, on some of these issues. As a secondary school teacher who has worked...
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The HE Green Paper: five things we know and five speculations
Jo Johnson, the minister for higher education, has now published the government’s eagerly awaited Green Paper on the future of universities. It’s a long document, at almost 35,000 words. Most...
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BERA Research Commission 2015/2017- Cost, Value and Quality in Professional Learning: promoting economic literacy in medical and teacher education
How are we to understand the cost, value and quality of university-based professional learning and development? This BERA Research Commission has examined the role of universities in professional...
‘I don’t need the British to communicate in English’. Social connectedness and the international student experience
The ‘international student experience’ is of increasing interest to researchers, educators and policy-makers alike. Social connectedness has been found to be key to the quality of this...
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Should teacher educators publish a set of standards or should we make public our practices?
Last week I sat down with my son to watch The Hunt, a new David Attenborough documentary about predatory behaviour. The episode was filmed in the Arctic. There, when the ice caps melt, the life of...
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Evidence-based practice – some common misconceptions
Over the last 12 months I have been lucky enough to have the opportunity to read, reflect and write about evidence-based practice and education. The more and more I have read about the...
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Humanity – a threat to the institution
Like many lecturers in higher education I weary of the techno-managed, audited and performance-reviewed life we lead. I can’t believe in it and it all seems so poor and, contrary to the...
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Can we learn together?
I wrote this whilst at BERA conference in Belfast and pondered the extent to which we can deepen the links between the school system and HEIs in England. From a school leader perspective I see a...
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