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From its origins as the Mechanics’ Institutes in the 1800s, FE has served industry by providing vocational skills to adults to meet the needs of business. However from the beginning it also...
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The historical theme of adult working class education in relation to contemporary post school sector, now referred to as the Lifelong Learning Sector, has to some extent been overlooked. Since the...
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Schools have a number of functions but one of the key ones is to help young people learn so as to prepare them for their lives once they leave school; however, good careers education is lacking...
Continue reading blog postThe same policy options face Tertiary F&HE as face Primary and Secondary schools. They were recently presented in two lectures by Baroness Tessa Blackstone, former-Labour Higher Education...
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Local and national governments in Australia claim that the inclusion of standards within official curriculum will support teachers to use assessment for and as learning. The provision of standards...
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Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk for details of how to register onsite. This seminar and workshop is intended for teacher...
It is not a new argument that parents and family in general have a very strong impact on children’s cognitive and social performance. This argument originates back in the ecological theory of...
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The first priority in education – if by education we mean learning to be human – is learning to live in personal relation to other people…I call this the first priority because failure in...
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This blog describes recent issues concerning the collection and reporting of data associated with Raising the Participation Age (RPA). It details recent changes to English local authorities’...
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Citizen science projects are becoming increasingly important sites for researching the learning of adults. Citizen science is identified as offering: new ways to engage in scientific research; new...
Continue reading blog postMany congratulations to former ½¿É«µ¼º½ President John Furlong who received an OBE in the recent New Year's Honours. John received his award in recognition of his work on educational research and...
In an earlier ½¿É«µ¼º½ blog post (‘Voices in the Air’ 20th September 2016), Chris Husbands described the years that followed the 2010 general election as a “frenetic period of change in...
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