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Teacher Recruitment and Retention and its links to attainment gaps in England

30 Mar 2026 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

This event will focus on two inter-related topics. First, the issue of teacher recruitment and retention. Second, how socioeconomic disadvantage and geographical context shape educational outcomes...

Editorial: Relationship-centred pedagogies: The route to ‘education for all’

This ½¿É«µ¼º½ Blog special issue responds to increasing concerns around school exclusions that have risen to almost 1 million in England and a government announcement in 2024 to phase out ‘cruel...

Relationship-centred pedagogies: The route to ‘education for all’

This ½¿É«µ¼º½ Blog special issue responds to increasing concerns around school exclusions that have risen to almost 1 million in England and a government announcement in 2024 to phase out ‘cruel...

Education through encounter

Although there is a growing international interest in relationship-centred pedagogies within the formal education sector, the concept is not new. Certainly, as myself and former head teacher and...

School culture, relationships and exclusion

This blog post explores links between school exclusions, teacher–pupil relationships and school culture. Specifically, it considers how what is prioritised and considered normal within a school...

Nurture and relationship-based approaches in SEN education

Introduction As a teacher with more than 20 years’ experience across mainstream and alternative provisions, I now lead Primary Literacy at New Barn School in Horsham, England, which supports...

Re-engaging disengaged students: Building trust and curriculum reform in secondary schools

Introduction I write this blog post following deep reflection on 40 years of teaching – 20 of which were as headteacher within three very different schools. In my final years of headship, I...

The ½¿É«µ¼º½ Blog: Highlights of 2025

½¿É«µ¼º½ Blog end of year highlights

Snow-dusted salutations and tinsel-tinged tidings to all our readers, authors, curators and guest editors around the globe. In this, the ½¿É«µ¼º½ Blog’s tenth anniversary year, I look back over the...

So what? What next? Reflections on education from across the four nations and beyond

10 years of the ½¿É«µ¼º½ Blog

As two of the editors of the ½¿É«µ¼º½ Blog, we have curated this series of 10 posts to celebrate one decade of the ½¿É«µ¼º½ Blog. As we mark this milestone, we recognise the importance of spaces such as...

Bridging the digital divide in low-resource contexts: Lessons from a Pakistani school

As global researchers increasingly reflect on the role of digital innovation in reshaping learning, the question of equity has never been more urgent. Who benefits from educational technology, and...

Guest editing opportunity for Research Intelligence, issue 167

This opportunity is now closed. ½¿É«µ¼º½â€™s Publications Committee is seeking an individual or team (of up to three people) to guest edit issue 167 of Research Intelligence on the theme of...

From safeguarding to critical digital citizenship: A framework to understand educational responses to digital technologies

Over the past two decades, there has been a proliferation of debates on how to respond to the growing list of challenges posed by digital technologies. The educational responses proposed to deal...