Working with primary and secondary schools for research and impact

Do you want to work with primary or secondary schools, either to conduct research or to gain impact? This session will offer practical advice on how to engage with schools for mutual benefit, including school perspectives and examples of good practice.

Tags: Centre for Advanced Studies, children, Children and Childhood Network, education, primary education, Rights and Justice, Rights and Justice Research Priority Area, school, secondary education

UoN Apprenticeship Programme 2016

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Tags: apprentice, apprenticeship programme, education, job, National Apprenticeship Week, scheme, vacancy

Complexities of learning and shifts of attention: one six-year-old’s learning of number with an ordinal perspective

A Centre for Research in Mathematics Education seminar.

Tags: Centre for Research in Mathematics Education, CRME, education, learning

Working with mathematics teachers to develop whole-class talk – CANCELLED

A Centre for Research in Mathematics Education seminar presented by Dr Jenni Ingram, Oxford University Department of Education.

Tags: CRME, education, mathematics, seminar

Education in Britain: how did it come to be like this?

Discussing the new edition of his book Education in Britain: 1944 to the Present, Ken Jones reflects on the history of education over the last seventy years.

Tags: Britain, CRACL, education, Jubilee Campus, Ken Jones, School of Education

Teaching schools evaluation: the final report

In this Centre for Research in Educational Leadership and Management seminar, Professor Qing Gu and Dr Lindsey Smethem, School of Education, will report the findings from a two-year study (2013-15) into the work of teaching schools and their alliances commissioned by the National College for Teaching and Leadership.

Tags: education, learning, Lindsey Smethem, National College for Teaching and Leadership, Qing Gu, School of Education, teaching

Creative learning – should England be ashamed of itself?

Paul Collard, Chief Executive of Creativity, Culture and Education joins the School of Education for this Centre for Research in Arts, Creativity and Literacy seminar.

Tags: Centre for Research in Arts Creativity and Literacy, education, learning, Paul Collard, School of Education, teaching

Preparation for leadership – talking about equality and diversity

This is a free day-long event that will focus on both the use of Pupil Premium funding in schools and on the development of school leaders.

Tags: education, equality and diversity, funding, school, School of Education, teaching

School choice in England: three dissimilar case studies in the East Midlands

he English education system is becoming increasingly diverse, with several different school types. Schools also compete for pupils because of the link between enrolment and school funding. In this seminar, Dr Abdul-Hamid will present the findings from her study of school choice in three different secondary schools; an academy, a local authority school, and a faith school. This forms part of a wider comparative study with similar school types in Malaysia.

Tags: Centre for Research in Educational Leadership and Management, Dr Suriani Abdul-Hamid, education, School of Education, teaching

New principal leadership and school culture

This School of Education seminar presents a study designed to investigate the nature of the interactions between new principals’ leadership and their inherited school cultures in primary schools of different effectiveness states – high, average and low achievement – which face challenging circumstances.

Tags: Centre for Research in Educational Leadership and Management, education, Rinnelle Lee Piggott, School of Education, teaching