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Powerful knowledge? Challenging neoliberal trends in FE policy and practice

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.

28 Oct, 202128 Oct, 2021 Education, Research
(Un)trustworthy organisations? Implications of the Sarah Everard murder case

(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.

05 Oct, 202105 Oct, 2021 Education, Policing, Society
A break or a lesson? Submarines, stereotypes and silent geopolitics

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.

28 Sep, 202128 Sep, 2021 Education, Politics
Lockdown learning and commuter students

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.

27 Sep, 202127 Sep, 2021 Education, Politics, Research
Socially just education?

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.

14 Sep, 202114 Sep, 2021 Education, Research
Online resources and Code Red for Humanity: the role of education

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.

13 Aug, 202118 Aug, 2021 Education
Language teaching after Covid-19: real world priorities

Language teaching after Covid-19: real world priorities

Dr Chris Beighton and India Rusbridge argue for a real world approach to learning languages which includes cultural content.

05 Jul, 202105 Jul, 2021 Education
Our forgotten Children

Our forgotten Children

Dr Jonathan Barnes & Catherine Carden discuss a government report that confirms white working-class pupils have been let down by the education system.

01 Jul, 202118 Aug, 2021 Education, Research
Why so surprised? A very brief history of sexual harassment in schools

Why so surprised? A very brief history of sexual harassment in schools

Dr Chris Beighton explains why the recent Ofsted report into sexual harassment in schools is not a surprise.

15 Jun, 202118 Aug, 2021 Education, Research, Society

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