Now that the summer term has ended it is possible to look at the 2016 recruitment round for teachers in some detail. although the recruitment round will include vacancies for January 2017, the...
One of the many novel phenomena associated with the rise of social media is the nationwide news story that is driven by a small personal event. Increasingly, members of the public will share...
In Sweden, international trends are challenging traditional conceptions about teaching practices. On the one hand, Swedish schools are regulated through a system of accountability, which leads to...
Learning about abstract concepts can be difficult due to the hidden nature of the phenomena of interest. Developing understanding about abstract concepts is therefore challenging because...
In 2010, my secondary school initiated a Learning to Learn (L2L) curriculum for all students in Year 7. There was a competitive selection process, and I was chosen to be one of a team of 5...
Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence treats the subject of history (or People, Past Events and Societies, as it is known) as a ‘social subject’ alongside geography and modern studies. It...
High quality school-based mentoring was singled out for needing 'much greater status and recognition' in the Carter Review of initial teacher education in England, and development of national...
How can we be the best professionals possible without making all the mistakes personally? It’s true that we can learn from our own mistakes. We have to recognize them, have the chance to reflect...
Dorothy Heathcote died in October 2011 at the age of 85. Although an academic for most of her life, first at Durham and then at Newcastle, Heathcote continued to teach in classrooms almost up...
So farewell, Nicky Morgan and Michael Gove. Welcome Justine Greening, our third Conservative English Secretary of State for Education since 2010. This is beginning to look a bit like the musical...
If there’s one issue on which Mumsnet users all tend to agree, it’s the importance of education. Not all of them would necessarily say that ‘education’ and ‘schooling’ are exactly the...
In the aftermath of the EU referendum the BBC has published two graphs revealing the English regions where votes were highest for the leave and remain camps. The region topping the leave vote was...