By . If you’re in Ottawa, January is Kremlinology month, in which every news story, no matter how vacuous, is parsed for clues about what may be in the federal budget, usually delivered sometime between mid-February and late March. More...
By . I did a big clear-out over the holiday period and found a whole batch of brand new printed copies of three of my books. One reason I moved to open publishing was because I ended up having to buy copies of my own books from the publishers to sell at conferences, and these are the unsold copies. More...By . Perhaps like you, I’ve been thinking about my plans for 2019. I was determined to retire when I was 75, so I could have time to write my swan song book, ‘Teaching in a Digital Age’, which I did, but it was so successful that it has resulted in more rather than less work. More...By . We (the Canadian Digital Learning Research Association – CDLRA) have almost completed all the work for the 2018 national survey of online learning in Canadian post-secondary institutions. More...
The Impact of Selective Secondary Education on Progression to Higher Education, HEPI Occasional Paper 19, by Iain Mansfield shows grammar schools increase the likelihood of progression to selective higher education for pupils from the bottom two quintiles of social disadvantage and for Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) pupils. More...
Today Research England have launched the second round of consultation on the Knowledge Exchange Framework (KEF). The aspiration for this third form of excellence framework (in addition to the longstanding Research Excellence Framework and the more recent Teaching Excellence Framework) was raised by Jo Johnson in October 2017 and forms part of the Industrial Strategy. More...
2019 appears set to be a defining year for the Higher Education sector. After years of plenty following the 2012 increase in tuition fees to £9,000, the cycle shows signs of turning and years of famine may lie ahead. More...
Like many people, I feel conflicted about grammar schools.
I live in a part of the country where they are a mainstream part of the school system. The minority of local children who pass the 11+ have high chances of thriving at one of our three local(ish) grammar schools, but the majority who don’t often do less well. More...
The importance of social mobility is a rare area of policy consensus between the main UK political parties. Given the decline of intergenerational social mobility in the last 50 years, it also happens to be a clear policy failure. More...
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