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The Prevent duty: can teachers be judges?

By Bob Hindle Filed Under: All posts, British Politics, Ethnicity Posted: December 14, 2016

Prevent is one of the four Ps that make up the government’s post 9/11 counter-terrorism strategy: Prepare for attacks, Protect the public, Pursue the attackers and Prevent their radicalisation in the first place. Bob Hindle looks at how the Prevent duty is applied in schools and colleges and highlights areas of necessary reform. Teacher decision-making […]

Tagged With: colleges, counter-extremism strategy, education, extremism, prevent, radicalisation, schools

School attendance law in the High Court: term-time holidays despite the legal fog?

By Neville Harris Filed Under: All posts Posted: June 27, 2016

Parents of school-age children know all too well that family holiday prices have a tendency to sky rocket during school holiday periods. Most also know, or thought they did, that they could be fined if they took their children out of school without good reason.  So there was huge public interest in the recent case […]

Tagged With: department for education, education, Education Act 1996, law, school attendance policy

Success as a Knowledge Economy? It’s Complicated

By Andy Westwood Filed Under: All posts, Whitehall Watch Posted: May 18, 2016

The Government announced its higher education reform plans this week, publishing a white paper ‘Success as a Knowledge Economy’.  But will it really deliver a better deal for students and is it making an already complex system even more so, asks Andy Westwood? Let’s begin with the title. Every part of it is contested in […]

Tagged With: education, education policy, higher education, Universities

It’s school not social networks that will get the poor out of poverty

Nissa Finney By Nissa Finney Filed Under: All posts, Ethnicity Posted: August 27, 2015

It’s not how mixed our social networks are that’s the key to reducing poverty, it’s broader issues of social isolation and inequality in education we should focus on, argues Nissa Finney. The people that we know – our social networks – have come to be seen as a resource, for social and economic support and […]

Tagged With: education, ethnicity, poverty, social networks

Teaching at the heart of the system – A Teaching Excellence framework

By Carl Emery Filed Under: Featured Posted: July 21, 2015

Earlier this month the Universities Minister, Jo Johnson, mapped out his vision for the HE sector over the next 5 years. Here Carl Emery looks at the implications. Addressing the Universities UK (UUK) group the Minister set out 3 key manifesto pledges: lifting the cap on student numbers and widening participation “to remove barriers to […]

Tagged With: education, Higher Education Agency, Teaching Excellence Framework, UUK

Still disadvantaged? The educational attainment of ethnic minority groups

Kitty Lymperopoulou By Kitty Lymperopoulou Filed Under: Ethnicity, Featured Posted: May 14, 2015

Despite the educational attainment gap between ethnic minority groups and the White British group narrowing, some ethnic minority groups continue to experience inequalities in education, explains Dr Kitty Lymperopoulou, who has contributed to a book on Ethnic identity and inequalities in Britain which has just been published. Education policy under successive governments in the UK has been […]

Tagged With: census, education, EMAG, ethnic inequalities, ethnic inequalities in the labour market, Ethnic Minortiy Achievement Grant

Clearing up the mess in the English school system

By Mel Ainscow and Alan Dyson Filed Under: All posts, Featured Posted: April 29, 2015

New proposals for the reform of the English education system are outlined in a report written by Mel Ainscow CBE and Alan Dyson, Professors of Education and co-directors of the Centre for Equity in Education at The University of Manchester, and their colleagues Sue Goldrick and Dr Kirstin Kerr. The English school system is in […]

Tagged With: education

Academy Schools: Where Should Policy go Next?

By Steve Courtney Filed Under: All posts, Featured Posted: March 19, 2015

The academisation of the English state school system has arguably been the most significant structural reform since comprehensivisation hit its peak in the 1970s. The academies programme had its roots in the City Colleges programme, legislated in 1988 but with only 15 opening owing to considerable expectations of investment from the private sector. Its failure […]

Tagged With: academies, education, education vouchers, national leaders of education, state schools

The coalition’s record on schools

Ruth Lupton By Ruth Lupton Filed Under: All posts, Featured, Westminster Watch Posted: February 10, 2015

Last week’s topic in the pre-election debate was schools. The Conservative party announced that it would protect spending on schools in cash terms, but not keep pace with inflation.  It would also convert more schools to Academies, including those adjudged ‘requiring improvement’ by Ofsted.  Labour retaliated by accusing the Coalition of failing to tackle educational […]

Tagged With: academies, coalition, Conservtaive, education, free schools, GCSE's, Labour, Pupil Premium, secondary education

Decoupling education from party politics

Andrew Howes By Andrew Howes Filed Under: Featured Posted: December 16, 2014

Dr Andy Howes, of the Manchester Institute of Education at The University of Manchester,  discusses possible changes to the exam system, as discussed at an Education Select Committee meeting earlier this month. The select committee is arguably a high point of democratic accountability within the Westminster system. The Education Select Committee earlier this month was […]

Tagged With: a-levels, as-levels, education, exams, secretary of state, select committee, The Manchester Institute of Education

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