A report in Schools Week looks at what actions the government has taken over the last four years to support the academic attainment of looked after children and what can...
Thursday, March 12, 2015
Publication of Professor John Furlong’s report on the future of Initial Teacher Education and Training in Wales. In March 2014, Professor John Furlong was appointed as Initial Teacher Education and...
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
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
New research in the Department of Education shows that children classified as EAL (English as an Additional Language) usually catch up with their peers in their school attainment by the...
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
[caption id="attachment_11796" align="alignleft" width="409"] L-R: Steve Dew, Headteacher Church Cowley St James; Prof Debra McGregor (Oxford Brookes); Jon Gray, Headteacher Cutteslowe; Dianne Carbon, Headteacher St John Fisher; Pat Kennedy, Oxford...
Monday, December 1, 2014
Congratulations to Emeritus Professor John Furlong who has won 1st prize by the Society for Educational Studies for books published in 2013. John's book entitled: "Education - An Anatomy of...
Thursday, November 13, 2014
A paper authored by Susan James and Gerbrand Tholen, with Chris Warhurst from the University of Warwick and Jo Commander from the University of Strathclyde, has been nominated for the...
Monday, October 27, 2014
QI, the popular TV programme on BBC 2, looks at things that are ‘quite interesting’. This Friday’s episode, ‘Levity’, sees Stephen Fry looking at levity, levitation and lights with Josh...
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Monday, October 6, 2014
The British Educational Research Association awarded Professor Kathy Sylva one of the first two BERA John Nisbet Fellowships. Named in honour of BERA's first President, the fellowships are awarded annually to...
Thursday, October 2, 2014