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Distance learning might seem to offer an ideal opportunity for students with mental health challenges to study for a degree, as it is flexible and can be done from home with the student...
Continue reading blog postParents send their children to private schools for a range of reasons, and we know that British private schools are successful in terms of academic attainment and that their alumni tend to go on...
Continue reading blog postIt is an interesting time to be a student. Not a single day passes without newspaper and social media headlines echoing student concerns about the (mis)handling of the Covid-19 crisis on campuses,...
Continue reading blog postThe enduring argument over class size is one of the most contested in education. The argument is between many teachers and practitioners who feel that class size makes a big difference to teaching...
Continue reading blog postFor higher education, Covid-19 has presented a particular challenge: having had to convert our classrooms to online platforms, higher education practitioners have faced the task of teaching and...
Continue reading blog postThis recent period of responding to the Covid-19 pandemic has been particularly unexpected and required a very rapid response by everyone across university systems. The use of online delivery as...
Continue reading blog postI have a certain disquiet about the way we in higher education so often relate success and failure to the attainment or otherwise of goals. This focus on goals is present at all levels of...
Continue reading blog postCovid-19 has shed light on the day-to-day life of teaching and learning. As parents began home-schooling and teachers adapted to innovative ways of connecting with students online, in our...
Continue reading blog postThe awarding gap is starkest between the likelihood of White (domiciled) students and Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) (domiciled) students being awarded a ‘good’ degree in the United...
Continue reading blog postIn the much-quoted Heraclitean aphorism, ‘the road up and down is one and the same’ (see for example Russell, 2004, p. 51), the pre-Socratic philosopher introduces a radical relativism and...
Continue reading blog postTo date, Covid-19 has not only highlighted the interconnectedness of societies and individuals, but also that educational endeavours privileging the cultivation of particular human qualities...
Continue reading blog postWhile disruption to educational ‘norms’ has received coverage since the public lockdown, less attention has been shown to the impact of the public lockdown on postgraduate research students....
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