Falling pupil numbers and school closures: Setting a research agenda for a new era of precarity
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
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Tenuous (in)stability? Mixed policy feedback and its effects on climate policy in Australia and Canada. [PDF]
Logg-Scarvell J, Patterson J.
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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
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Traditional Islam in Kazakhstan: historical formation, state discourse, and contemporary challenges. [PDF]
Kerim S, Kurmanaliyev M.
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Abstract The global teacher shortage continues to intensify, with disparate impacts across geographic and socio‐economic communities. In Queensland, Australia, where this study originates, post‐COVID teacher shortages have intensified workforce pressures, leaving several regional, rural and remote schools as some of the ‘hardest‐to‐staff’ in the ...
Matthew Readette +5 more
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Navigating the plastic crisis : How Commitments Can Lead to Polycentric Governance. [PDF]
Braun M, Hornidge AK.
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Moderators' perceptions of consistency in Key Stage 2 writing moderation across local authorities
Abstract This article explores moderators’ perceptions of the consistency of Key Stage 2 (KS2) writing moderation across Local Authorities (LAs) in England, a process central to securing the reliability and fairness of teacher assessment in a high‐stakes accountability system.
Rebecca Clarkson
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Psychometric study of the political violence support scale in a sample of Chilean university students. [PDF]
Troncoso-Tejada G +3 more
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Abstract In England, education is compulsory, but schooling is not: it is legal for families to home educate their children. This form of education is officially termed by the Department for Education as ‘Elective Home Education’. As this designation implies, many families home educate as a positive and preferential ‘choice’.
Katherine Davey +3 more
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Value systems of artificial intelligence and university students: theoretical dominance in large language models and religious priority in humans. [PDF]
Sufyan NS +6 more
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