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The role of ethnicity in university admissions

Steven Jones By Steven Jones Filed Under: Ethnicity, Featured Posted: June 10, 2015

Your likelihood of being offered a place at a Russell Group university may be related to your ethnicity, explains Steven Jones. Here is an excerpt from a UCAS personal statement written recently by an applicant to a Russell Group university: “There are various times where I have been a team member such as in hockey, […]

Tagged With: admission policies, Barbara Ellen, discrimination, Guardian, MIE, Oxford University, race, Russell Group, Sutton Trust, The Observer, ucas, Universities, Vikki Boliver

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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, MIE

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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, MIE, national leaders of education, state schools

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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, MIE, Pupil Premium, secondary education

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Socio-economic inequalities widening again in English schools: The story behind the 2014 GCSE results.

Ruth Lupton By Ruth Lupton Filed Under: All posts, Featured Posted: January 30, 2015

Publication of the 2014 GCSE results has highlighted  a worrying decline in academic performance by poorer children, say Ruth Lupton and Stephanie Thomson from The University of Manchester. Yesterday’s release of the 2014 GCSE results, showing a fall in overall achievement and a doubling of the number of schools not meeting the government’s floor target, […]

Tagged With: department for education, exam results, exams, GCSE's, MIE, students

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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, MIE, secretary of state, select committee, The Manchester Institute of Education

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Where next for education policy? 

Kirstin Kerr By Kirstin Kerr Filed Under: Featured Posted: November 24, 2014

This year’s Manchester Policy Week witnessed a lively debate on how we can close the socio-economic attainment gap in education. Dr Kirstin Kerr heard some clear recommendations emerge. If there’s one thing the major political parties agree on, it is that the link between poverty and poor educational outcomes must be broken. Ever since Tony Blair set out his priorities […]

Tagged With: academies, Association of Teachers and Lecturers, Carlo Raffo, City Challenge, Colin Ferguson, education, Education Action Zones, Every Child Matters, Excellence in Cities, Extended Services, Hollie Warren, Manchester Education Debate, Martin Johnson, MIE, Pupil Premium, Save the Children, schools, Sure Start, Teach First, The Manchester Institute of Education, Tony Blair

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Where next for Labour’s schools policy?

Ruth Lupton By Ruth Lupton Filed Under: Featured Posted: September 29, 2014

With the Labour Party conference in town, Manchester Institute of Education (MIE) invited four leading figures in education to join teachers, academics, teacher educators, parents and others in a public debate on what a future Labour government should do on schools. Prof Ruth Lupton considers some of their key ideas. Panel members were Rt. Hon David […]

Tagged With: academies, children, education, Labour, MIE, policy, pupils, schools, teachers, teaching

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Trust Teachers – The first Manchester Education Debate

Andrew Howes By Andrew Howes Filed Under: All posts Posted: June 30, 2014

Educationalists, teachers and academics have taken part in the first of a series of debates about the future of our schools in the run up to the 2015 election. Dr Andrew Howes pulls together some key strands from the discussion. If one in four good, trained teachers is saying ‘I’m leaving teaching, I need a […]

Tagged With: education, manchester teaching, MIE, public debates, schools, teacher satisfaction, teaching, teaching conditions, Universities

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What is the impact of the ‘bedroom tax’ on children and schools?

Ruth Lupton By Ruth Lupton Filed Under: Featured Posted: April 15, 2014

A year on from the introduction of the ‘bedroom tax’, Prof Ruth Lupton argues that reducing the incomes of poor families and creating instability for poor children is a nonsensical policy for a government committed to closing the socio-economic attainment gap. One of the Coalition government’s most controversial welfare reform policies, the so-called ‘bedroom tax’, […]

Tagged With: bedroom tax, children, education, housing benefit, inequality, MIE, schools, socio-economic attainment gap

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