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Fair access: are comprehensive universities the answer?
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…
Cash may be going out of fashion, but children still need to understand how money works
Jennie Golding. At present I am leading a fascinating set of research studies that take me into mathematics classrooms of the full range of 5 to 18-year-olds. We are asking how the current mathematics curriculum is being experienced by teachers and…
Banning porn won’t work. So how can we best support young people’s digital intimacies?
Jessica Ringrose, Amelia Jenkinson and Sophie Whitehead. In recent weeks, conversation has been reignited around the UK’s porn block for under 18s. The plan to prevent teens from accessing porn has been long delayed, but the government recently reiterated that…
Parental leave: what is it for and how do we make it work?
Peter Moss. Leave policies for parents (maternity, paternity and parental leave) are high on today’s policy agenda, not only in higher income countries but around the world. A recent International Labour Organisation (ILO) survey found all bar two countries (Papua…
‘Loss of self’ and the accountability culture: why teachers are leaving the profession at a worrying rate
Jane Perryman. I used to be a teacher and, like so many others, I left the profession. Perhaps this is why I’m so interested in finding out more about the long-standing problem of teacher attrition. Why do so many qualified…
Baseline assessment: will early childhood education be further commercialised?
Guy Roberts-Holmes. Last month the Department for Education (DfE) invited primary schools to volunteer to take part in the national Reception Baseline Assessment 2 (RBA2) test pilot planned for September 2019. If successful, it will be made statutory for all…
Mothers are not to blame for our childhood obesity crisis
Emla Fitzsimons. The number of obese children and teenagers across the world has increased tenfold over the past four decades and it is estimated that about one in four 14-year-olds in the UK is either overweight or obese. It is…
10 years on: why we still need better sex education for the digital world
Jessica Ringrose with Amelia Jenkinson and Sophie Whitehead of Sexplain. Last month new guidance for Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education for England was put out for consultation by the Department for Education. This draft statutory guidance is intended…
International School Meals Day: who gets a ‘proper’ dinner, who gets less and who gets nothing?
Rebecca O’Connell, Julia Brannen and Abigail Knight. If we had not included Portuguese young people in our cross national study of Families and Food in Hard Times*, the inadequacies in the free school meal system in England might not have…
‘I don’t want to have to apologise for wanting a career at 60’: staff development for older workers
Domini Bingham. Ageism is a dirty word, stretching across workplaces and society as a whole. Even if in principle equality and diversity are established by the law, the reality can be different, and a number of factors are in play.…
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