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Rethinking professional learning for TESOL teachers: What a decade of research reveals

In today’s fast-changing world, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) teachers face mounting pressures – from new technologies to shifting student needs and rising...

Editorial: The heart of learning: Spotlight on school libraries in the UK and Ireland

What if the most important room in a school isn’t a classroom, but the one that unlocks every other door to learning? In schools with well-funded and professionally staffed libraries, student...

The heart of learning: Spotlight on school libraries in the UK and Ireland

What if the most important room in a school isn’t a classroom, but the one that unlocks every other door to learning? In schools with well-funded and professionally staffed libraries, student...

½¿É«µ¼º½ Bites, issue 13: Education & generative AI

½¿É«µ¼º½ Bites

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) now sits at the heart of the everyday rhythms of schooling and higher education, affecting how we plan lessons, communicate with learners, assess work...

Bridging worlds: Using youth work to blend organic and cocreated digital environments to support neurodivergent young people in mainstream education

This blog post reflects on our podcast Bridging Worlds, a research study that combines outdoor learning, youth work, and digital creativity through Minecraft. Funded by a ½¿É«µ¼º½-Kusuma Trust award,...

Research Intelligence Article of the Year Award 2025

This award recognises the highest quality and most original and impactful articles published in ½¿É«µ¼º½â€™s magazine Research Intelligence. Guest editors of issues published in 2025 were invited to...

Secondary school teachers’ preparedness to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) technologies into their practice

BCF Curriculum Investigation Grant Research Reports

The rapid proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in education – ranging from large language models to adaptive learning platforms – raises pressing questions about teacher...

The Smartphone conundrum: Is the smartphone a help or hinderance to learning at university?

You’re probably reading this on your smartphone. We cannot live without them; nor can our students. But what part do they play in the learning environment? My attention was caught by a raft of...

SIG Meet & Discuss: Digital Education

Our upcoming ½¿É«µ¼º½ Digital Education SIG meeting will be an engaging and collaborative online session, bringing together members to reflect, reconnect, and co-create ideas for the year ahead....

Building brilliance: The transformative power of off-the-job training in apprenticeships

Introduction Off-the-job training (OTJ) has long been central to apprenticeships, combining hands-on work with structured, theory-based learning to build a skilled, adaptable workforce...

Social media and mental health: Understanding the ‘threshold effect’ among young adults

Social media use among young adults is nearly universal worldwide. For instance, 95 per cent of teenagers (13–17) in the United States are on social platforms, with about a third online...

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...