Leanne Edwards | Schools Week

How to teach gender-blind careers education in primary

It’s never too early for children to start thinking about their future ambitions, says Karen Follows Developing an awareness of potential future careers is an important but perhaps often overlooked aspect of teaching in a primary school. Recent research from Teach First and the Education and Employers Charity focused on the importance of getting children […]

Harry Fletcher-Wood’s top blogs of the week 9 July 2018

Our blog reviewer of the week is Harry Fletcher-Wood, an associate dean at the Institute for Teaching Policy tribes: How allegiances can harm policy making @B_I_Tweets The last in a series of posts about how behavioural insights can improve how government works by understanding the cognitive biases to which groups succumb, its ideas could just […]

Contextualised university admissions: how to make them fairer

Now we have consensus that more diverse admissions benefit both students and universities, Sam Butters writes, it’s time to increase transparency via shared terminology and better use of data We know that parents’ income, the quality of school attended and a myriad of other background factors continue to affect educational outcomes for young people, including […]