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PISA: England’s schools segregate by ability more than almost every other country in the world
Comparing rates of setting and grouping by ability to those of other nations
How well do we measure teacher workload?
New research on the amount of time teachers spend on teaching and non-teaching activities
Seven key findings about teachers’ working hours
New research on the amount of time teachers spend on teaching and non-teaching activities
PISA: are teenagers in England addicted to social media (And does it matter)?
Looking into whether evidence from PISA supports recent claims
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…
This year, for the first time ever, more young women than men took science A Level … but it’s not yet time to celebrate
Emily MacLeod On A Level results day earlier this month it was widely reported that girls had overtaken boys in science A Level entries for the first time ever. Female students accounted for 50.3% of all A Level science entries across…
Inequalities in education and society: the home, the school and the power of reading
This blog is based on Professor Alice Sullivan’s inaugural professorial lecture, presented at the UCL Institute of Education on 18 June 2019 Much of my work concerns the way that advantage and disadvantage are passed down from one generation to…
Do people change their political ideology when they lose their job? If anything, they move to the left
Dingeman Wiertz and Toni Rodon. What happens to citizens’ political preferences when they are confronted with economic hardship? This longstanding question has recently attracted renewed attention in the wake of the Great Recession. Nonetheless, many matters remain unresolved. For example, which…
How well-off and healthy were my parents when I was little? Am I a hard-working high flier, or an advantaged one?
Gabriella Melis and Ingrid Schoon. Our research looked at how inequalities amongst families in the 1970s in England have been passed on onto their offspring when they were adults themselves. We call the parent’s generation G1, and the offspring generation,…
How the trade union approach to learning helps workers overcome maths phobia
Beth Kelly. The more collaborative style of learning led by trade unions in the workplace helps people to become more motivated and confident about learning and using mathemtics. Indeed, my new research shows that even long-held negative feelings towards mathematics can…
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