2021-04-28 A former Primary PGCE trainee from the Faculty of Education has been named ‘Teacher of the Year’ by her local authority after parents at her school praised her ‘astounding’ support during lockdown.Read the full story here |
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2021-04-23 A radically reformed approach to education in which different subjects teach connected themes like climate change or food security is being proposed by researchers who argue that it would better prepare children for future crises.Read the full story here. |
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2021-04-22 More young people may choose to study foreign languages to GCSE if they are encouraged to ‘identify’ with languages at school rather than just learning vocabulary and grammar new research suggests.Read the full story here. |
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2021-04-07 Poor children are being ‘failed by the system’ on road to higher education in lower-income countries A generation of talented but disadvantaged children are being denied access to higher education because academic success in lower and middle-income countries is continually ‘protected by wealth’ a study has found.Read the full story here |
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2021-03-26 An ‘astonishing’ deficit of data about how the global boom in educational technology could help pupils with disabilities in low and middle-income countries has been highlighted in a new report.Read the full story here. |
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2021-03-26 A new critical analysis suggests that our relationship with hugely successful series like Stranger Things and particularly some of the more performative acts of fan-worship around them provides us with a template for new ways of thinking and engaging with the world which arguably are stranger still.Read the full story here. |
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2021-03-23 A new study by Frances Foster who studies ancient education at the Faculty shows how Romans sometimes interpreted the relics of their ancient antecedents by using educated guesswork to supplement what they actually knew - rather like modern-day visitors might when viewing exhibits at a museum.Read the full story here. |
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2021-03-19 Thankfully schools have reopened for the last few weeks of term but for most of it trainee teachers have been undertaking placements online. In this short series of articles we have been asking Faculty trainees what that experience has been like and what they have gained from it. In this final article Chloe Brown from the Primary PGCE course explains how it has sharpened her ability to anticipate potential barriers to learning and why she now believes that learning to teach remotely may actually help rather than hinder the training experience.Read the full interview here. |
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2021-03-16 Dr Tyler Denmead is undertaking a virtual ‘tour’ of his book The Creative Underclass starting this month. The book was originally published in 2019 and draws on his earlier experiences as the founder of an arts programme for marginalised youth in a US city. In so doing it raises uncomfortable questions about the role of cultural projects in wider processes of urban regeneration and how they might easily help to perpetuate exactly the sort of social and racial injustice that they seek to address.Read the full story here. |
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2021-03-15 A home-based parenting programme to prevent childhood behaviour problems which very unusually focuses on children when they are still toddlers and in some cases just 12 months old has proven highly successful during its first public health trial.Read the full story here. |
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