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Migrant success in UK Education: Are there lessons for government social mobility policy?

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract The school achievement and career aspirations of 23 sixth form students at a multi‐cultural urban academy in the UK are explored through interviews. The sample includes 16 s‐generation migrants, 6 UK‐born students with migrant parents and 1 UK‐born student, selected to represent a cohort of over 300 post‐16 learners.
Bernard Barker, Kate Hoskins
wiley   +1 more source

British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 24

, 2019
Editorial This special issue of BMSAES publishes papers and additional reflections arising from two workshops organised at the British Museum in 2011 and 2013 as part of the British Museum’s Naukratis Project.
British Museum
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Cooperative learning strategies to raise attainment in mathematics with pupils aged 11–16 years: A systematic literature review

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Cooperative learning is a widely adopted teaching method to improve academic achievement. This review synthesises existing research on the use of cooperative learning within a school setting for pupils aged 11–16 years. Such a review has not been undertaken to date and will present an evidence base for educators considering implementation ...
Patricia Hampson, Zhe. Li, Allen Thurston   +2 more
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The use of music and song materials in English at Chinese primary schools

Вісник Харківського національного університету імені В. Н. Каразіна. Серія Іноземна філологія. Методика викладання іноземних мов
Relevance. The preface to the Standards of the English language curriculum for primary schools in China states that the curriculum should develop comprehensive language skills, change the process of learning English to the process of actively forming ...
Ilona Kostikovа, Haozhe Jiang
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British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 19

, 2012
Editorial This issue of BMSAES contains three diverse contributions using various methods to explore aspects of New Kingdom to Late Antique Egypt. Using 3D models, Elaine Sullivan's work investigates the logistics of moving festival barks through the ...
British Museum
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Falling pupil numbers and school closures: Setting a research agenda for a new era of precarity

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the significant phenomenon of decreasing pupil numbers in England due to lower birth rates and the impact of a school closure on a school community. It then discusses how the sociology of education might research this major issue.
Eleanor Fagan, Alice Bradbury
wiley   +1 more source

Racial gaps without racism: How English universities frame inequality in access and participation plans

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Racial inequalities are pervasive in higher education despite concerted efforts to redress issues of access, progression and continuation. Little attention has been paid to how universities themselves construct race within their policy texts.
Benjamin Hart, Mirna Šumatić
wiley   +1 more source

British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 1

, 2002
It is with great pleasure that I write a brief introduction to BMSAES 1 (British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan), which is being launched as originally intended in January 2002.
British Museum
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University strategy in transnational higher education: The strategic approaches of newly established and ‘small’ international branch campuses

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Newly established international branch campuses (IBCs) commence operations without a student body, and even after several years, many institutions fail to grow beyond 500 students. Despite having unique strategic needs, small IBCs are largely overlooked in the higher education literature.
Stephen Wilkins, Joe Hazzam
wiley   +1 more source

Informality in academic English texts by Arabic and British scholars: A corpus study

Russian Journal of Linguistics
There has long been a widespread belief that academic writing has to maintain a high degree of formality and impersonality. Despite this, it has been observed that there is a general tendency to use informal style in academic writing by writers from ...
Abuelgasim S. E. Mohammed, Abdulaziz B. Sanosi   +1 more
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