What are we educating for?
Although it has always been significant, the question of what we are educating for is now particularly important. There is growing consensus that the educational challenges we face require...
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What are we educating for in vocational education?
In this blog post, I focus on what is distinctive about vocational education. What makes vocational education different and why is this important? First, and most critically, vocational education...
Continue reading blog postWhat are we educating for in higher education?
It might have been easier to identify the purpose of higher education in the early part of the 20th century, when the few students who went to university came from a narrow demographic background...
Continue reading blog postJennifer Agbaire
Dr Jennifer Agbaire is an academic at the School of Education, Childhood and Youth at The Open University, UK. Her research interests are around social identities, inequalities and inclusion as...
Naomi Flynn
Naomi Flynn is Professor of Multilingual Education at the University of Reading Institute of Education. She is School Director of Postgraduate Research Studies, a teacher educator, and a member of...
Women curriculum theorists
Feminism is a concept and a practice. As a concept feminism is polysemic, semantically contested, networked, interactive, powerful and dynamic. An important binary that has had real effects in the...
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Martin Doel
Martin Doel was appointed as the first Professor of Leadership in Further Education and Skills at University College London (Institute of Education) in April 2016 after having previously been the...
Nicola Dandridge
Nicola Dandridge is Professor of Practice in Higher Education Policy at the University of Bristol. She is former chief executive of the Office for Students (2017–22) where she led the creation...
Naomi Eisenstadt
Naomi Eisenstadt is chair of the NHS Northamptonshire Integrated Care Board. After a long career in the NGO sector, in 1999 Naomi became Director of Sure Start. The Unit was responsible for...
Peter Scott
Peter Scott is emeritus Professor of Higher Education Studies at University College London (Institute of Education, Faculty of Education and Society). He was Scotland’s first Commissioner for...
Jo Warin
Jo Warin is Professor of Gender and Social Relations in Education at Lancaster University. She has a longstanding research trajectory into gender in education especially in early childhood. She...
Paul Ashwin
Paul Ashwin is Professor of Higher Education in the Department of Educational Research, Lancaster University. He is Deputy Director of the Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE) and leads the...
