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I read somewhere (maybe in J G Ballard’s Empire of the Sun, but I stand to be corrected) about events in some prisoner of war camps in Singapore, as the Japanese troops withdrew towards the end...
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We held the first meeting of ½¿É«µ¼º½'s new Independent Researchers' Forum on Wednesday 22nd July. Bringing together a diverse range of researchers, the group looked at priorities for action over the...
Educational research takes place in many different settings, including higher education institutions, but also schools, local authorities, community organisations and research organisations...
In this, my first contribution to the ½¿É«µ¼º½ blog, I hope to stimulate debate by sharing some differences of opinion with other researchers in ½¿É«µ¼º½. My intention is to emphasise the importance of...
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Further education (FE) colleges – how they work, what happens in them, who studies in them, who works in them – always seem to get shunted to the margins. They are under-funded, relatively...
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½¿É«µ¼º½ and the British Curriculum Forum are delighted to announce that this year’s ½¿É«µ¼º½/BCF/Routledge Taylor-Francis Curriculum Journal prize has been awarded to a team from Anglia Ruskin...
Registration online is now closed. However if you would still like to attend this event please email [email protected]:09.45 - 10.00 Registration, tea and coffee  10.00 -...
Having had a quieter few years legislatively, higher education once again made the headlines of George Osborne’s Summer Budget on 8th July. Although it had been widely trailed, the chancellor...
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On the 21st October 1966 forty thousand cubic metres of coal debris from a badly maintained National Coal Board waste site in Aberfan, South Wales, destroyed the Pantglas junior school below. ...
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Call for Abstracts Abstracts are invited on papers addressing any aspect of educational leadership and management and particularly those which focus on the specific conference theme:...
Last week the 6th Annual Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods (WISERD) Conference took place at Cardiff’s iconic Millennium Stadium. The WISERD Conference is the largest...
Historians write counter-factuals: brief papers that speculate about ‘what ifs?’ For example if William of Normandy had lost the battle of Hastings in 1066 what would the UK have looked...
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