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Universities play a key role in the ‘meritocratic myth’. In our contribution to this ½¿É«µ¼º½ Blog special issue, we consider how disability and social class challenge the persistent regulative...
Continue reading blog postNelson Mandela famously stated: ‘Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.’ But to weaponise education for change, people from all backgrounds must be able...
Continue reading blog postSavannah Gill is a class teacher at a small primary school in Cambridgeshire and a student at the University of Cambridge. Her dissertation explores how play-based writing pedagogy influences ...
Lynne Hill is an early years teacher within a forest-based preschool, following broadly child-led and Reggio Emilia approaches as well as borrowing from Montessori. Following a master’s in...
UK higher education (HE) has undergone profound transformation since its early inception. No longer the preserve of the elite few, HE has since massified. Despite the expansion of UK HE being a...
Continue reading blog postScience is often celebrated as the ultimate meritocracy. But while scientific Truth may be objective, the process of discovery is deeply influenced by who gets to participate in it. For too long,...
Continue reading blog postWe live in an era when the old-world order has passed but a new world order is yet to fully take shape: evocatively described by Antonio Gramsci as a time of monsters. Marked by profound global...
Dr Ngozi Louis Uzomah, a graduate of the Geography Department at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, earned a PhD following a BSc in Geography and an MSc in Population Geography. He is an active...
Becka White is a researcher on digital surveillance at Amnesty International. Previously she worked at the London School of Economics’ Gender Studies Department, first as Engagement Officer and...
Dr Sarah McLaughlin is the Msc Health Professions Education Co-Lead and lecturer at University of Bristol. Her research interests relate to the sociology of education, mature students and social...
End-point assessments (EPAs) have become a defining feature of modern apprenticeships in England, serving as the ultimate measure of an apprentice’s occupational competence (MacArthur, 2023)....
Continue reading blog postMirko Canevaro, FRSE, MAE, is Professor of Greek History at the University of Edinburgh. His research has been funded by, among others, the European Research Council, UKRI and a Philip Leverhulme...
