Recent curriculum policy in the UK and elsewhere (e.g. Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence, Successful Futures in Wales, and the New Zealand Curriculum Framework) marks a significant departure...
In 2013 a group of international teacher educators met at the AERA conference to discuss the lack of attention teacher educators as a professional group received from policy makers and...
In the wake of terror attacks in London and Manchester in 2017, concerns have been raised about the extent to which governmental strategies to combat terrorism are successful in preventing...
In March 2017, the long-awaited Early Years Workforce Strategy for England was published by the DfE. It aims to put in place a number of measures to address some of the difficulties currently...
The Roma are amongst Europe’s most disadvantaged groups, facing high levels of prejudice and discrimination. The largest population of Roma is in Eastern Europe; particularly Romania and...
This blog profiles an entrepreneurial Triad Model of School Leadership developed by three schools involved in the Erasmus+ project: Dame Dorothy Primary School, Springwell Village Primary School,...
Offering students flexible and convenient access is a key driver for the use of technology in learning, with online technologies enabling students to continue their work out of the classroom,...
The Education Select Committee has concluded its review of assessment systems in Primary schools in England, with a brief to pay particular regard to changes rolled out in 2016. The report...
Why does group work seem to be falling out of favour? There has been a rising volume of voices in the educational world suggesting that group work is ineffective and should no longer be viewed...
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,...
Getting students to engage with subjects which have a reputation as being inaccessible or difficult is a constant challenge many teachers face, whether at school or in higher education. This...
As that slouching, slavering beast we call neoliberalism lurches through all corners of the education system creating havoc in its wake, remaking education in its own image, we need now more than...