Hans Svennevig and Sera Shortland. “I want to grow up in a country where the people are more powerful than the government.” This statement was made by 16-year-old Harry in a speech he gave during MP6, a political speaking competition…
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Our young people deserve to have citizenship education teachers who are properly trained if we are to close the class gap in political awareness
Tagged with: citizenship education, social inequality
Posted in Education policy, Teaching, learning, curriculum & assessment, young people
Posted in Education policy, Teaching, learning, curriculum & assessment, young people
Cultural capital and curriculum: will OFSTED’s new framework encourage better education in our schools?
Michael Young. OFSTED’s decision to revise their Inspection Framework to give less emphasis to pupil outcomes and more to the curriculum and ‘the substance of education’ was largely welcomed by the teaching profession. However, implementing such a change was always…
Tagged with: cultural capital, Ofsted, social inequality
Posted in accountability and inspection, Teaching, learning, curriculum & assessment
Posted in accountability and inspection, Teaching, learning, curriculum & assessment
Getting the science straight: the schools minister’s suggestion that private schools convey little academic advantage does not stand up to scrutiny
Francis Green. A recent report from the Sutton Trust reveals that positions of public influence are still disproportionately cornered by the privately educated, with little progress since their previous report. So the Johnson – Hunt (Eton – Charterhouse) contest to be…
Tagged with: private education, social inequality
Posted in Research matters, Teaching, learning, curriculum & assessment, Uncategorized
Posted in Research matters, Teaching, learning, curriculum & assessment, Uncategorized
Why Britain’s private schools are such a social problem
shutterstock Francis Green. Private schools tend to be richly resourced and expensive, so those children lucky enough to attend them normally receive a good education, with academic advantages enhanced by a range of extra-curricular activities. But while this might be…
The long roots of childhood, and how they explain economic inequalities across the whole of life
Alissa Goodman. In my inaugural lecture earlier this summer I asked the question, what are the root causes of the economic inequalities in our society, and why have these been so difficult to budge? This is a question that I’ve…
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