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De-professionalising or re-professionalising the Early Childhood Workforce in England

This blog is based on the papers presented in the ½¿É«µ¼º½ 2015 Conference Symposium ‘De-professionalising or re-professionalising the Early Childhood Workforce in England?’ Elizabeth Wood, Jo...

How can we do education research in a socially just way?

Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email [email protected] for details of how to register onsite.Please join our panel for a discussion of the...

Telling stories of practice – a workshop for youth workers and researchers

Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email [email protected] for details of how to register onsiteThis workshop will bring youth workers and youth work...

Universities, schools and a system in flux – looking back on Carter and looking forward to the future of Initial Teacher Education in England

In 2014 I was part of the Carter Review of ITT – an experience that was rewarding, intense and often stressful. I met a student teachers, mentors, heads, university and school based tutors, NQTs...

New Issue of Research Intelligence now online

The autumn issue of Research Intelligence is now online. Members can download the interactive version here.

Key facts on educational research in 2015

Ahead of the ½¿É«µ¼º½ 2015 Conference, we have published a fact sheet based on the outcomes of REF2014 and the forthcoming ½¿É«µ¼º½ Observatory. This gives an overview both the strengths of UK educational...

Filling in the ‘Hole in the Wall’: The pedagogical implications of digital technology and learning with a SOLE

The World Wide Web has changed how we do everything forever. We can literally find out anything we want thanks to Google and numerous other search engines competing for our attention. You can buy...

Developing the role of the teaching assistant: Centralisation as a way forward?

Highlights from the first 1,000 ½¿É«µ¼º½ Blog posts

The teaching assistants (TAs) that I meet are enthusiastic, keen to improve their practice, and valued by the teachers and senior leaders that they work with. However, research on the national...

Socially mixed schools but limited social mixing? Children’s and Adults’ Friendships Across Social Class and Ethnic Difference

I had such a homogenous schooling [in a private school] and I think that gave me a terribly blinkered view of society which I’m hoping that I’ve shrugged off some of it, but I don't think you...

½¿É«µ¼º½ President’s Roundtables 2015-17: Methodological challenges in education(al) research

½¿É«µ¼º½ is starting a series of presidential round table seminars that will draw on processes of agenda- setting, horizon-scanning, evidence review and user engagement to explore key methodological...

Prison Education in England: a wicked policy problem for Michael Gove

A disjuncture exists between the discourses and legislation surrounding the rights of all prisoners to education in Europe and what is happening on the ground in English prisons. Whilst there is a...

Fy Ardal/My Neighbourhood: Pupils’ perceptions of place — a pedagogy for living in Wales

For the past three years, the Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research Data & Methods (WISERD) has been conducting research with pupils, teachers and parents in 29 primary and secondary...