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
Oxford Mail, 03/12/2013, p.12, Judy Sebba Judy Sebba, director of Oxford University’s Rees Centre for Research in Fostering and Education, writes this week’s University Life column. Professor Sebba discusses the...
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Oxford Mail, p.4, 27/11/2013, Sophie Scott School pupils are to benefit from a new Oxford University initiative to boost learning across the city. The Education Deanery was launched yesterday at...
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Radio: Today, BBC Radio 4; 05/11/2013, 6:52 Naomi Eisenstadt of Oxford University participated in a discussion prompted by recent suggestions by the chair of Ofsted that children should start school...
Friday, November 8, 2013
Daily Telegraph, 07/11/2013, p.19, Graeme Paton Rising numbers of teachers are barring lower attaining pupils from taking GCSEs in history amid fears they will damage the school’s league table ranking,...
Friday, November 8, 2013
Professor Ian Menter talks to 'This is Oxfordshire' about Leadership for Learning – an innovative university-led programme in Oxford primary schools. More...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Radio: The World At One, BBC Radio 4 12/09/2013, 13:17 Discussion on education cites the effective pre-school and primary education (EPPE) study, run jointly by the University of Oxford, which...
Monday, September 16, 2013