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Widening participation in outward student mobility: Successes, challenges and opportunities

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article utilises data obtained through evaluation processes at Northumbria University to contribute to the emerging discourse on widening participation and outward student mobility. The rationale behind the study stems from the significant financial and non‐financial benefits associated with higher education and the UK's ongoing efforts ...
Joseph Mellors, Alejandra Vicencio
wiley   +1 more source

Empowering young people: Powerful knowledge in economics

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Powerful knowledge in school economics is conceptualised as the blending of economics knowledge arising from grasping threshold concepts with expressions of disciplinary thinking in terms of the powers or capabilities that this knowledge can provide to students who possess it.
Emanuel Mizzi
wiley   +1 more source

GCSE attainment in alternative provision (AP): A comparison of AP Free Schools and AP Academies

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Alternative provision (AP), in particular Pupil Referral Units (PRUs), have been criticised as a forgotten part of the education system, side‐lined and stigmatised as somewhere only the very worst behaved pupils go. In response to this criticism, PRUs have now been academised to become AP Academies and new AP schools have been set up—AP Free ...
Stephen Hills   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A typology of schools across the four nations of the United Kingdom: Class, race and geography

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract In this paper we analyse the hierarchical field of schools across the United Kingdom during the transition to university and suggest that there are five socially distinct clusters of schools. Our five‐cluster typology of UK schools is composed of an established group of elite private and state schools, schools for the white rural and suburban ...
Sol Gamsu, Håkan Forsberg
wiley   +1 more source

The absent presence of disability in British higher education

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Rates of disability disclosure are steadily increasing in British higher education (HE), with 18% of the student population having a known disability in 2023/24. It might be assumed that progress is being made with increased representation, rights and support for disabled students.
G. Koutsouris   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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