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Kate
Abstract: Soundings 84-5: Editorial Preview The last five years have seen an unprecedented wave of industrial action in UK higher education. There have been a number of periods of strike action by university staff between 2018 and 2023, culminating in a Marking and Assessment Boycott in spring and summer 2023. Significant solidarity from students during these […]The post The crisis in higher education appeared first on Lawrence Wishart. PubDate: Thu, 28 Sep 2023 12:14:33 +000
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Kate
Abstract: In their second guest blog-post, Ian Duckett and James Whiting of the Socialist Educational Association set out what they think is needed to re-invigorate the movement for comprehensive education and show how the SEA Manifesto for Education can help. The movement for comprehensive education has been stuck in the doldrums since the unfinished attempt […]The post Back to a comprehensive future! appeared first on Lawrence Wishart. PubDate: Wed, 13 Sep 2023 14:28:18 +000
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Kate
Abstract: Aled Singleton How external economic actors have led to profound changes in the lives of generations of people in South Wales. This article argues that there was a resolute political will powering regenerative initiatives in South Wales from the late 1950s to the early 1970s - what I call (after Raymond Williams) ‘The Long Resolution’. […]The post The Long Resolution' Responding to economic and social change in postwar South Wales appeared first on Lawrence Wishart. PubDate: Fri, 18 Aug 2023 13:43:57 +000
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Kate Potts
Abstract: In the first of two guest blogs, James Whiting (SEA General Secretary) and Ian Duckett (SEA NEC) introduce the Socialist Educational Association’s Education Manifesto, a document which challenges the Labour Party to think in radical and thorough-going ways about the education service. The Socialist Educational Association (SEA) launched its Manifesto for Education in June. In […]The post A Manifesto for Education appeared first on Lawrence Wishart. PubDate: Tue, 15 Aug 2023 13:42:08 +000
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Kate Potts
Abstract: Contributions are invited for the Spring 2024 number of FORUM (66/1) for which the copy date is Friday 10 November, 2023. This Call is principally aimed at current or recently graduated education students on MA, EdD or similar courses. We want to hear from the rising generation of practitioners about what matters to them, though […]The post Call for Papers: New thinking! appeared first on Lawrence Wishart. PubDate: Thu, 20 Jul 2023 10:01:27 +000
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Kate Potts
Abstract: Grammar school initiatives to attract more children from lower income families have made little impact and the Government appears indifferent. Nuala Burgess, Chair of the campaigning organisation Comprehensive Future, considers the latest evidence. In 2018, a self-selected group of 152 grammar school heads who go by the name of the Grammar School Heads Association (GSHA), […]The post Failure by admission appeared first on Lawrence Wishart. PubDate: Wed, 19 Jul 2023 09:29:45 +000
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Kate Potts
Abstract: FORUM 65/2 Summer 2023 FORUM’s summer number addresses the way teaching is being reconfigured by the assault on Initial Teacher Education and the erosion of teacher professionalism. It is introduced by Patrick Yarker. The famous prime directive ‘do no harm’ isn’t part of the original Hippocratic Oath. But as a rule of thumb it’s hard […]The post First, do no harm appeared first on Lawrence Wishart. PubDate: Wed, 12 Jul 2023 13:39:04 +000
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Kate Potts
Abstract: Image: Lauren Hurley/ No 10 Downing Street Liz Truss famously blamed ‘the markets’ for her failures in government. Here James Marriott and Gavin Bridge take this as a starting point for unpicking the role of markets, and, crucially, their connection to the realm of oil and gas. Vital signs 13.33 Thursday 20 October. Liz Truss […]The post Political turmoil and financial oil – sketching the anatomy of oil’s markets appeared first on Lawrence Wishart. PubDate: Wed, 07 Jun 2023 15:59:22 +000
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Kate
Abstract: Colin Richards was once a primary teacher and is now a long-retired HMI. In this guest blog-post he considers the changes to school inspection over recent decades which have culminated in what he calls ‘a kind of dominated “professionalism”’. He looks forward to the prospect of educational renewal under a different government. In 1996 I […]The post Hinges and Turns appeared first on Lawrence Wishart. PubDate: Tue, 30 May 2023 15:05:12 +000
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Kate Potts
Abstract: We celebrated the publication of From Sylhet to Spitalfields with a packed out event at Bishopsgate Institute, London on Tuesday 14 March 2023. Author Shabna Begum discussed the book and the hidden history of the Bengali squatters’ movement with a Bengali squatter activist Muhammad Gulam Yahya, Tribune Magazine industrial correspondent Taj Ali, Lecturer Dr Aminul […]The post From Sylhet to Spitalfields: Bengali Squatters in 1970s East London – Book Launch appeared first on Lawrence Wishart. PubDate: Thu, 23 Mar 2023 14:14:16 +000
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