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Bright Spots Project: The subjective well being of looked after children and survey development
It is increasingly recognised that understanding subjective wellbeing (SWB) – or asking people how they feel about their own lives is key to developing policy that supports our quality of life.
15 May 2026
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Standards in national examinations: What do they mean?
Processes of standard setting and maintaining within curriculum related assessments form a key strand of educational assessment policies and programmes, and debates about standards are often at the heart of educational reform.
15 May 2026
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From Financial Literacy to Financial Capability and Financial Wellbeing: More than a semantic change
There has been a gradual shift in responsibility for social protection of individual citizens from the state to the individuals themselves, who must now operate in an increasingly complex financial marketplace to meet their own social protection needs and those of their household.
15 May 2026
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Learning French in the primary school classroom: The origins of morphosyntax
Young instructed learners of a second language are known to rely extensively in the early stages on rotelearning and formulaic language; the relationship between this formulaic knowledge, and the eventual emergence of productive morphosyntax, is still poorly understood.
15 May 2026
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Education and the new Conservatism: Social wellbeing, national character and British values
Conservative policies in education have often been analysed in terms of their neoliberal characteristics.
15 May 2026
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The long term implications of devolution and localism for FE in England
For the last 30 years English education has been subject to a process of delocalisation, centralisation and nationalisation.
15 May 2026
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Imagining a future after schooling
This paper explores the emerging findings of the UrbanRural Youth Transitions Project, an 18 month ethnographic inquiry into how young people imagine and experience life immediately after finishing secondary education.
15 May 2026
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Stuck! Britain’s social mobility problem
This ‘stickiness’ is particularly persistent at both the top and bottom of society: the privately educated continue to dominate the leading professions and the proportion of children leaving school without basic numeracy and literacy skills remains stubbornly high.
15 May 2026
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Socioeconomic inequalities in education achievement and student outcomes
Whilst much attention has been paid to the socioeconomic gap in higher education participation, far less research has investigated the extent to which graduate earnings vary by their socioeconomic background.
15 May 2026
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What are universities for?
As private sector providers begin to enter the marketplace with tailored, ‘work-ready’ courses; as industrial research labs and think tanks claim the research space; as the internet provides informal learning on any subject from plumbing to patriarchy, the natural ‘terrain’ of the university seems under threat.
15 May 2026
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Schools as workplaces: What makes a school a good place to work?
Arguably schools are a uniquely challenging type of organisation to manage, particularly in contemporary times.
15 May 2026
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