IOE Events. For our latest debate we moved further down the education pipeline, to higher education. We wanted to look at why the pace of progress in widening access across our universities has felt so slow. We were inspired by…
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Fair access: are comprehensive universities the answer?
Tagged with: social mobility, universities, university access
Posted in Further higher and lifelong education, IOE debates, young people
Posted in Further higher and lifelong education, IOE debates, young people
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…
What kinds of activities will encourage more students from disadvantaged backgrounds to keep studying science?
Tamjid Mujtaba. I have worked on a range of projects as a mixed-methods researcher over the years although none as quite exciting as Chemistry for All, a longitudinal project funded in 2014 by the The Royal Society of Chemistry. Why…
Tagged with: participation in science, science education, social mobility
Posted in Research matters, Teaching, learning, curriculum & assessment, Uncategorized
Posted in Research matters, Teaching, learning, curriculum & assessment, Uncategorized
Education and social mobility – the missing link, or red herring?
This week the IOE held the first in our ‘What if…’ events series, which challenges thought leaders to bring some fresh and radical thinking to key debates in education. We kicked off with education’s role in relation to social mobility,…
Tagged with: education policy, social mobility
Posted in Education policy, IOE debates, Social sciences and social policy
Posted in Education policy, IOE debates, Social sciences and social policy
Closing the gap: we need the best teachers in the most deprived schools
Becky Francis. Our society is stuck in a rut on social mobility – or rather, immobility. For decades, governments of every persuasion have sought to improve social mobility, to narrow the gap between young people from disadvantaged backgrounds and their…
Tagged with: Becky Francis, early childhood education, social mobility
Posted in Childhood & early education, Education policy
Posted in Childhood & early education, Education policy
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