Laura McInerney | Schools Week

David Cameron has NOT built the most new schools in history

In a press release today, the Department for Education claims: “This move brings the total number of free school places created since 2010 to almost a quarter of a million, making this policy the most successful new schools programme in national history with schools being created more quickly than ever before.” Except…. There are now […]

What young people REALLY think about celebrities

British Journal of Educational Studies. Published online February 17, 2015. Open access Research: We can get everything we want if we try hard: young people, celebrity and hard work Authors: Heather Mendick, Kim Allen, Laura Harvey Like it or not, celebrities matter. It’s easy to be sniffy about the idols children hold – but adults […]

Edition 19

Both pieces of research reviewed were published in Open Review of Educational Research, volume 2, issue 1, 2015 Research: Para-quantitative Methodology: Reclaiming experimentalism in educational research Authors: Bakhtiar Shabani Varaki, Robert E. Floden and Tahereh Javidi Jafarabadi In educational research, a lot of time is spent arguing about whether we should look at problems quantitatively […]

Edition 18

All the research reviewed was published in Educational Psychology, volume 35, issue 1, 2015 Research: Coping strategies at ages 8, 10 and 12 Authors: Aniko Zsolnai, Laszlo Kasik and Gabor Braunitzer In recent debates about character and resilience, another, less macho, word has been forgotten: coping. Children don’t always need to bolsh through life. It […]

Edition 17

All four pieces of research reviewed were published in the Oxford Review of Education, vol 40, issue 6, 2014 Research: Social origins, school type and higher education destinations Authors: Alice Sullivan, Samantha Parsons, Richard Wiggins, Anthony Heath and Francis Green This paper is a little inconvenient for the pro-grammar school crowd. Using the 1970s British […]

Edition 16

In this edition of Educational Research, three studies caught our watchful research eye: 1. How young children view mathematical representations: a study using eye-tracking technology David Bolden, Patrick Barmby, Stephanie Raine & Matthew Gardner A benefit of eye-tracking technology is that it can show where children focus their attention. In the case of mathematical representations […]

Teacher-student interactions, reading and the social and emotional aspects of learning

In this edition of the British Educational Research Journal, three studies caught the eye. 1. Maria Poulou: “The effects on students’ emotional and behavioural difficulties of teacher-student interactions, students’ social skills and classroom context” When thinking about student behaviour it is often easy to think it is a one-way street, but this paper thinks of behaviour […]

Education Select Committee Review: Nicky Morgan on Careers Advice and Guidance

Nicky Morgan was at the Education Select Committee today to account for the government’s progress (or otherwise) on careers education. Questions focused on her planned “employer led” careers advice company. @FCDWhittaker was live-tweeting on behalf of @SchoolsWeek https://storify.com/lauramcinerney/nicky-morgan-at-the-careers-education-select-commi

Publish appropriate levels for “super-head” pay, recommends government committee

Increasing “super-head” salaries are not being taking seriously by the Treasury – and appropriate levels of pay ought to be published, says a Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report published today. The committee reviewed government accounts, and is “sceptical” the government is taking the pay of so-called super-heads “seriously” as the Treasury has only recently started […]