Experts on colleges in the UK look at how current challenges might affect teaching methods, building design, the way colleges cope with a diverse student body, the way they work with local partners...
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Over the past few decades, higher education in the United Kingdom has been transformed, expanding to a mass, bordering on universal, system. There are now almost 2.4 million HE students. In this...
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One in five children leave primary school without being able to read. Based on her own research in schools, Marion Long has proposed a new rhythm-based scheme to improve reading amongst low-ability...
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This report is structured around key questions for the education system as we move into the second decade of the 21st century. We set out a vision for educational reform that is underpinned by the...
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The world in which teachers must now operate is much changed from that of the 1980s and even the 1990s. During that time, political reforms have both helped and hindered teaching. Developments in...
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We argue in this paper that the current school admissions system is a cause of segregation by social class and ability across our schools system, and is thus likely to hamper efforts to improve all...
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This paper is the report of the first stage in the 'I was a teenage governor' project, organised by the Institute for Public Policy Research in partnership with the Citizenship Foundation and Derry...
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This paper is primarily concerned with assessment in the form of national testing up to the end of Key Stage 3 at age 14. Curriculum, pedagogy and assessment define what is taught, how it is taught,...
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Schools policy is complex and controversial, partly because it seeks to achieve a wide range of objectives. This paper presents an overview of how well the English schools system is performing...
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Low levels of educational qualifications are a significant barrier to looked after children overcoming their disadvantaged start in life. The Government has recognised its duty to improve educational...
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