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.

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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

Green Paper response from The University of Nottingham

A message from Dr Paul Greatrix, Registrar of The University of Nottingham We have now submitted […]

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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

NUSA moves out of ‘special measures’

Improvements at Nottingham University Samworth Academy (NUSA) have lifted the school out of special measures, according […]

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Exposing the ‘myth of participation’ in South African secondary school mathematical literacy

Dr Mark North, Senior Research Fellow in the School of Education, presents the seminar ‘Exposing the myth of participation in South African secondary school mathematical literacy’.

Tags: Centre for Research in Mathematics Education, education, Mark North, mathematics, maths, School of Education, teaching

School of Education launch event: more fragmented, and yet more networked

The School of Education presents the launch event: More fragmented, and yet more networked: analysing the responses of two Local Authorities in England to the Coalition’s “self-improving school-led system” reforms

Tags: government, politics, school, School of Education, teaching, Toby Greany

Nottingham Recognition Scheme briefing

A1 Psychology Building, University Park Campus Friday 16 October, 12-2pm School Directors of Teaching are invited […]

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National Student Survey 2015 results

The National Student Survey 2015 results are in. This year saw 86% of final-year students satisfied […]

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Tags: feedback, league table, National Student Survey, NSS, student experience, survey, teaching