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.

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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.

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Current projects

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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)

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Publications

See a list of Post-14 Education and Work research papers and journal articles.

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More info

For further details about our researchers, publications, activities, groups and themes, visit UCL Profiles.

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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 

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