Dr Chris Beighton explains how the recent White Paper on school reform shows a disconnect between the Government’s vison for an equitable education system and how they seek to achieve it.
Time to get the education of social workers right
Dr Janet Melville-Wiseman looks at the proposed contentious fast track entry route to social work.
Climate change education needs to make connections
Dr Stephen Scoffham explores the role of education in teaching students about the climate emergency.
Powerful knowledge? Challenging neoliberal trends in FE policy and practice
Zahid Naz and Dr Chris Beighton discuss how current focus in Further Education to fill skills gaps via a fixed criteria is failing to acknowledge local values and context within education.
(Un)trustworthy organisations? Implications of the Sarah Everard murder case
Dr Chris Beighton and Zahra Kemiche look at the issue of transparency and trust within organisations.
A break or a lesson? Submarines, stereotypes and silent geopolitics
Dr Chris Beighton examines the language used during the recent AUKUS security pact fall out.
Lockdown learning and commuter students
Dr Susan Kenyon reveals emerging findings from her research into the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on commuter students, and explains how the move to online learning removed some barriers to learning, but how it also presented new barriers, for some students.
Socially just education?
As students across the region sit the Kent Test, Dr Alan Bainbridge assess the evidence for and against a selective schooling system.
Online resources and Code Red for Humanity: the role of education
Dr Chris Beighton and Caroline Pestell explain how online learning resources should be approached, understood and used by teachers.