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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.
25 June 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.
25 June 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.
25 June 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.
25 June 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.
25 June 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.
25 June 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.
25 June 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.
25 June 2026
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5 years of the EEF Findings, challenges and future priorities
The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) was established in 2011 and has so far committed over £75 million to education research projects involving over 7,000 schools.
25 June 2026
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What do undergraduate students really think about money?
The analysis spans both quantitative and qualitative approaches, across a mixture of single institution, multiple institution and international settings.
25 June 2026
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Religion and belief in Britain: The Commission on Religion and Belief in British Public Life
Religion and belief are driving forces in society today.
25 June 2026
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