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The first cut is the deepest: how the crisis in children and young people’s mental health was created

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In the coming weeks, the House of Commons Education and Health Select Committees will be hearing oral evidence on their inquiry into children and young people’s mental health and the role of education. Members of the Manchester Institute of Education have written three blogs expanding on some of the key issues in their submission and […]

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Young people, social media and the Internet: part of the problem and the solution?

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In the coming weeks, the House of Commons Education and Health Select Committees will be hearing oral evidence on their inquiry into children and young people’s mental health and the role of education. Members of the Manchester Institute of Education have written three blogs expanding on some of the key issues in their submission and […]

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Supporting the mental health of young people in schools

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In the coming weeks, the House of Commons Education and Health Select Committees will be hearing oral evidence on their inquiry into children and young people’s mental health and the role of education. Members of the Manchester Institute of Education have written three blogs expanding on some of the key issues in their submission and […]

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Universities must listen to working class voices in the debate on social mobility

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Earlier this month, the award-winning social leadership charity RECLAIM launched their new report into social mobility in higher education. ‘Educating All’ is the result of a youth-led research project which enables working class young people to explore the barriers faced at some of the top universities in the country. One of the report’s authors, Martha […]

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What is left unsaid: making sense of grammar school policy

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Steven Courtney asks how can we make sense of an education policy that runs so clearly counter to the policy objectives of enhancing social justice set out by Theresa May in her first speech as Prime Minister ?  The problem of sense making The question of whether to have grammar schools is not one where the […]

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Grammar schools and Downton Abbey politics

Helen Gunter By Filed Under: All posts Posted:

This week the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) published its report comparing education systems worldwide and its Head of Education questioned the evidence for selection as a way of improving schools.  Those who attended grammar schools such as Theresa May, argues Helen Gunter, make claims disconnected from research evidence and based on their […]

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Grammar school plans: a dangerous distraction

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It’s rare for a public policy consultation paper to shock, but proposals from the UK Government to expand the provision of grammar schools have caused a storm of protest. Mel Ainscow believes this is a dangerous distraction and argues that more collaboration in schools, not increasing segregation, is what our children need.      The decision […]

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Success as a Knowledge Economy? It’s Complicated

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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 […]

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National policies are fuelling segregation in primary schools

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Responding to pupil diversity is a key policy challenge for schools, nationally and locally.  But is our education system working in a way that supports this aim?  No, say professors Mel Ainscow CBE and Alan Dyson, who have found that national polices are actually preventing primary schools from responding effectively to increased diversity in the […]

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Polling Observatory #35 (March 2014): Politics, Fast and Slow

Rob FordMark PickupWill Jennings By , and Filed Under: Polling Observatory Posted:

This is the thirty-fifth in a series of posts that report by Dr Robert Ford, Dr Will Jennings and Dr Mark Pickup on the state of the parties as measured by opinion polls. By pooling together all the available polling evidence the impact of the random variation each individual survey inevitably produces can be reduced. Most of the short […]

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