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…
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What kinds of activities will encourage more students from disadvantaged backgrounds to keep studying science?
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
The crisis for young people: why housing is the key to social mobility
Andy Green. Last week’s report from Alan Milburn’s Social Mobility Commission, Time for a Change, provides a useful assessment of the impact of government policies on social mobility between 1997 and 2017. Ranging over policies for the different phases…
Tagged with: Andy Green, housing policy, social mobility
Posted in Evidence-based policy, Social sciences and social policy, young people
Posted in Evidence-based policy, Social sciences and social policy, young people
Social inequalities – the report card
Heather Joshi and Emla Fitzsimons . In his speech to the 1999 Labour Party conference Tony Blair compared two babies in adjacent beds on a maternity ward, delivered by the same doctors and midwives but with two ‘totally different lives…
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