Podcasts
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.
11 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.
11 May 2026
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Mediatising religious education: BBC radio and television for children and schools, c.1920s-1970s
11 May 2026
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If 'The Youth of the Country are the Trustees of Posterity' (Benjamin Disraeli, 1845), do we need to do more to support young people who are NEET in the UK?
11 May 2026
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Learning with Conversational Agents that Launch Multiple Intelligent Tutoring Systems and Learning Resources
11 May 2026
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English Medium Instruction Research: What do we know so far and what do we still need to find out?
The exponential growth of English Medium Instruction (EMI) both in Higher and Secondary Education globally has resulted in a similar growth of empirical research on the subject.
11 May 2026
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Long term outcomes of former child migrants in care in Australia. "Uprooted from everything that attaches you".
This presentation reports research which examines the in-care and post-care experience
of people who lived in Australian child welfare institutions and other substitute care as
children between 1930‒1989.
11 May 2026
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Recent Developments in Reading Assessment in the USA National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP): An Analysis of Conceptual, Digital, Psychometric, and Policy Trends
In his presentation, Professor David Pearson, who serves as the Chair of the Standing Committee on Reading for NAEP provided an update on recent innovations in the conceptualisation and operationalisation of NAEP Reading.
11 May 2026
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Lexical diversity and coverage in tertiary-level STEM:
a corpus-based comparison of English-medium lectures in Anglophone and non-Anglophone contexts
The rapid growth of EMI in the tertiary sector raises some interesting questions for the Applied Linguistics and TESOL communities.
11 May 2026
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Language and disciplinary learning combined: CLIL challenging conceptions of language skills
This presentation is concerned with content and language integrated learning, CLIL.
11 May 2026
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