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I want Britain to be a place where advantage is based on merit not privilege; where it's your talent and hard work that matter, not where you were born, who your parents are or what your accent...
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In recognising Brexit as a game changer, Teresa May entered Number 10 Downing Street with a commitment to restore the fortunes of working families and to narrowing egregious inequalities in...
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Social mobility has become an essential policy solution, an apparent panacea for inequality, injustice and unfairness (Hoskins & Barker, 2014). The idea of individuals transcending their...
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We hear a lot about social mobility, especially during elections. Political parties and governments often use social mobility (alongside keywords such as opportunity, potential and justice) as a...
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It is now a tired old panacea, operating as a very inadequate sticking plaster over the gaping wound social inequalities have become in the post-Brexit landscape Theresa May told her new...
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I came across this innocuous looking phrase in an interview with the French sociologist of education Bernard Charlot on the internet. He was quoting the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan to explain how...
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This event is now fully booked. To be placed on the waiting list, please email events@bera.ac.uk. Chair/convenor: Richard Thurston, Deputy Chief Research Officer, Welsh Government Theory-based...
Following discussions in recent months and a successful conversation during the conference in Leeds, ½¿É«µ¼º½ is now undertaking a short survey to explore how we might support educational research in...
TEAN – ‘Let’s talk about …’ discussion WORKSHOPS  Let’s talk about innovation in Initial Teacher Education REGISTRATION OPEN What future would you design for ITE and early...
The announcement last month that AQA was to withdraw the final History of Art A level specification brought a critical response in the press and on social media, not simply because it represented...
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The perhaps deliberately leaked return to secondary modern schooling took playing politics with education to a new low. It signalled May’s appropriation of another of UKIP’s policies but,...
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We are pleased to invite you to the Launch of the Learned Society of Wales's Hugh Owen Medal which will be held at the Old College, Aberystwyth University at 10am on Monday 28 November. Cabinet...