Research
Research in the Centre for Post-14 Education and Work.
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Areas
Our Centre aims to act as the focus and first point of call for research and consultancy internationally, nationally, and locally in the following broad areas:
- Upper secondary education (14-19)
- Technical, vocational and professional education and training
- Work-based and work-related learning
- Further education and its interface with the work-based route and higher education
- Learning within the criminal justice system
- Adult and community learning
- Adult literacy, language and numeracy, including English and maths
- English, maths and ESOL in 14-19 education
- Initial teacher training and continuing professional development
- London as a global city
- International perspectives on and developments in post-14 education.
Themes
Within each of these strands the centre will explore a number of cross-cutting themes:
- Curriculum and qualifications.
- Teaching, learning and assessment.
- Educational participation, progression, life transitions and the issue of exclusion and disengagement.
- The changing nature of work and the economy and its relationship to education and training.
- Policy making and policy learning.
- Institutional collaboration and the creation of local learning systems.
- Institutional and system leadership, governance, and professional identities.
Current projects
Completed projects
- ELVET (Project dates: September 2016 - August 2018. Team: Ann Hodgson, David Smith, Ken Spours, Julia Jeanes)
- FE and Skills across the four countries of the UK (Project dates: May 2017 - July 2018. Funders: Edge Foundation, City and Guilds, Department for Education. Team: Ann Hodgson, Ken Spours)
- Local London Flexi-learn for Health and Social care sectors (Project dates: January 2018 - October 2019. Team: Ken Spours, Julia Jeanes)
Publications
See a list of Post-14 Education and Work research papers and journal articles.
More info
For further details about our researchers, publications, activities, groups and themes, visit UCL Profiles.
Contact us
Centre for Post-14 Education and Work
Department of Education, Practice and Society
IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society
University College London
20 Bedford Way
London, WC1H 0AL
email: p.grainger@ucl.ac.uk