Widening participation in higher education: Reforming infographics beyond the visual through the eyes of sports coaching students

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In this blog post, I explore the value of infographics beyond their visual aspect for widening participation students. The post draws on my PhD research, which focuses on the value of infographics...

Doing the heavy lifting: The experiences of working-class professional service and administrative staff in Russell Group universities

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Understanding what life is like for those studying and working within universities has been of increased interest to higher education research, policy and practice over the past 15 years....

Does environmental activism have a place within education?

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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns that the pace and scale of current action to limit global warming is inadequate – but that urgent climate action can secure a liveable...

What makes students curious about science?

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‘It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of enquiry’, Einstein is reported to have said. Given...

Young professionals as development agents: Change makers in education (CMIE) programme for doing development differently

To realise the goals of achieving Sustainable Development Goal number four (that is, the importance of quality education for all) different participatory development approaches (Cornwall, 2011)...

The grass ceiling: Contextualising English rural/urban educational outcomes

The traditional narrative of urban–rural educational disadvantage is that urban pupils do less well in the English exam system. Decontextualised data (as exemplified in table 1 across different...

Contemplating the potential influence of typological relatedness on bilingual learners’ L2 preliteracy acquisition

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A survey of research on the acquisition of preliteracy skills in children’s first language (L1) has provided an important starting point from which the unique circumstances of bilingual children...

Anomie in the UK: What’s holding back the ideas-informed society?

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On less optimistic days, we might reflect that for some in society, the social fabric that binds us together is currently not only fraying but unravelling. This leads us to question what it would...

Dyslexia misconceptions among dyslexia assessors

Dyslexia is a learning difficulty characterised by challenges in reading and spelling despite adequate learning opportunities, and in the absence of other cognitive (such as ADHD) or sensory...