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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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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...
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I remember reflecting on the experience of attending my first BERA annual conference as a doctoral student in 2008. More specifically, I can recall my initial perceptions of the educational...
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We are thrilled to have been selected to represent the Australian Association for Research in Education as a featured symposium at this year’s BERA conference. We believe that the selection of...
Continue readingThe twelve-month research project Literature’s Lasting Impression⃰ investigates a defining convention of classroom literary study, shared novel reading. Most people remember ‘reading round...
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Teaching excellence has been at the centre of debates about quality in English Higher Education (HE) in recent years. The introduction of the Teaching Excellence Framework has ratcheted up this...
Continue readingIn view of the current popularity of educational research, it's easy to forget that this field of study has only gained academic approval relatively recently. In 1982 I tried to register with...
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The 2017 UK general election has thrown up many interesting aspects, but if he had been elected, Jeremy Corbyn would have been just the 4th prime minister since 1945 to not be an Oxbridge...
Continue readingAs technology has become increasingly integrated into all aspects of university teaching, the tools and strategies available to support assessment have increased and evolved. Despite these...
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Work-related learning, whereby a student has the opportunity to undertake a project or work alongside staff in an organisation, is encouraged and recommended in many publications even if they are...
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The International Forum for Teacher Educator Development (InFo-TED) (https://www.ntnu.edu/info-ted) is an international forum with representatives from Belgium, Ireland, Israel, the Netherlands,...
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The proportion of students from disadvantaged backgrounds going to ‘elite’ universities in England has remained worryingly flat in the past decade, despite millions of pounds being invested...
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