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Education represents no less than our vision of society, and the people in it. It represents values. How education policy is made tells us about whose values are prioritised, what sources of...
Continue reading blog postAlthough it has always been significant, the question of what we are educating for is now particularly important. There is growing consensus that the educational challenges we face require...
In this blog post, I focus on what is distinctive about vocational education. What makes vocational education different and why is this important? First, and most critically, vocational education...
Continue reading blog postIt might have been easier to identify the purpose of higher education in the early part of the 20th century, when the few students who went to university came from a narrow demographic background...
Continue reading blog postThe recent announcement in England about extending free childcare for working parents seemed like very good news. The offer, to be realised over two to three years, included free childcare of 30...
Continue reading blog postIn the past two or three decades there has been a fundamental shift from seeing higher education in essentially educative terms to seeing it almost exclusively in transactional terms. Young people...
Continue reading blog postThe overall question of this ½¿É«µ¼º½ Blog special issue can be understood in two different ways: what is being done now at the current time by educators (what are we educating for), and it can also...
Continue reading blog postWe know that the primary timetable is overcrowded, testing is embedded in almost every year of a child’s primary schooling (Wyse et al., 2022), and expectations of what teachers must cover grow...
Continue reading blog postIn December 1987, Secretary of State for Education Kenneth Baker summed up the purpose of the Education Reform Bill as ‘standards, freedom and choice’. Underpinning the bill was the belief...
Continue reading blog postAs the highly successful ½¿É«µ¼º½ Blog continues to grow in output and readership, we are delighted to announce that we are expanding its editorial team. In the coming months, the ½¿É«µ¼º½ Blog will...
I would like to believe that our national policymakers for primary school education seek out the relationship between policy, research and practice. I’d like to think that to achieve this they...
Continue reading blog postThe biggest mistake of the 1997–2010 Labour governments was the failure in 2004/5 to implement Mike Tomlinson’s report on the future of the secondary education curriculum and assessment. In...
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