The Guardian, 10/02/2015, p.37, Warwick Mansell Round-up of education news asks whether ministers’ moves to insist on “traditional” methods of calculation in primary school maths will really raise standards, noting...
Monday, February 16, 2015
Times Higher Education online, 08/02/2015, John Elmes Ian Menter, president of the British Educational Research Association and director of professional programmes at the University of Oxford, has said that a...
Monday, February 16, 2015
The Independent, 23/09/2014, p.22, Richard Garner The gap in performance between poor and better-off pupils is just as high in schools ranked ‘outstanding’ as those labelled ‘inadequate’, researchers have found....
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Community Care, 3 September 2014, Luke Stevenson A new review by the Rees Centre, commissioned by the NSPCC, looks at the evidence surrounding what works to prevent and treat poor...
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Schoolteachers and academics from Papua New Guinea have spent a fortnight in Oxford on an intensive course run by Oxford University's Department of Education in a bid to develop teacher...
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
The Telegraph online, 25/06/2014, Graeme Paton Teachers in England are working longer hours than those in most other developed nations despite being badly paid and feeling “undervalued” by society, according...
Monday, June 30, 2014
The Independent online, 28/05/2014, Richard Garner Children from poor backgrounds are at a double disadvantage if they go to private or voluntary nurseries and preschools, says a major study out...
Thursday, May 29, 2014
Researchers from Oxford's Department of Education have contributed to a major report that examines the professional development of teachers in UK classrooms. Dr Katharine Burn and Trevor Mutton examined a...
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Times Education Supplement, 14/05/2014, Unattributed Banning calculators from national tests in primary schools is a “backward step”, leading academics and researchers have warned. Academics from Oxford, Cambridge and Kings College,...
Thursday, May 15, 2014
Times Higher Education, 01/05/2014, Chris Parr According to the interim findings of a report by the British Council and the University of Oxford’s Department of Education, English is increasingly becoming...
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Oxford Times, 20/03/2014, p.29, Reg Little Full-page feature and interview with Professor Ian Menter on the Leadership for Learning Programme, which he directs. The initiative seeks to provide leadership development for...
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Wired.co.uk, 05/12/2013, Tom Cheshire Research suggests that children born into the internet age are developing strategies to cope with the ‘realities of distraction’. Dr Rebecca Eynon of Oxford University’s Department...
Monday, December 9, 2013
