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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Real-Time Terrain Recognition for Quadruped Robots Using Proprioceptive Sensors and Temporal Convolutional Networks. [PDF]
Chang TH +13 more
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Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) has a growing influence on planning, teaching and assessment practices in education. In New Zealand, the Ministry of Education (2024) has acknowledged AI's expanding role in schools; nevertheless, limited data exist on teachers' practices and perspectives regarding its implementation.
Mohammed Tashmeer +2 more
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Robotic lava tube mapping and multimodal data collection using quadruped and LiDAR. [PDF]
Hidding AJ +5 more
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Abstract This paper examines the experiences of Nigerian cross‐border students in UK higher education, focusing on how colonial legacies continue to shape the interplay between structure and agency. Three key themes emerged in the analysis of the data: First, the persistence of a ‘West is Best’ mentality reflects the internalisation of colonial ...
Jennifer Marshall, Jack Bryne Stothard
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Beyond resolution: Multi-scale weather and climate data for alpine renewable energy in the digital twin era. [PDF]
Schicker I +5 more
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English teachers' journeys since the 2020 Iteration of Black Lives Matter
Abstract The 2020 resurgence of Black Lives Matter (BLM) mobilised students in England to demand greater representation of racially minoritised voices in English curriculums—a call highlighted by stark inequity: just 1.5% of GCSE texts studied are by racially minoritised authors, despite racially minoritised students comprising 38.0% of the student ...
Adrian Fernandes
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Distributed multi-robot LiDAR SLAM with ground-optimized preprocessing and slope-adaptive segmentation. [PDF]
Wang Y, Zou Q, Wang F.
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Bricks, knots, and bodies: Material encounters and the affective making of masculinity
Abstract This paper examines how creative research methods do not just capture boys' experiences of masculinity, but actively materialise them. Drawing on two arts‐based activities used in school‐based fieldwork (a mannequin‐based exercise with one participant and a Lego‐building workshop with a small peer group), the paper analyses how materials ...
Huw Berry‐Downs
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GeoSlide-XMamba: A Spectral-Topographic Boundary-Aware State-Space Network for Landslide Semantic Segmentation. [PDF]
Tang Y +6 more
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