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

open access: yesBritish 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

DESIGNING ECOLOGIES FOR RESILIENT URBANISMS [PDF]

open access: yesLandscape Architecture Frontiers, 2018
De Meulder, Bruno, Shannon, Kelly
openaire   +2 more sources

Urban climate action in the Nationally Determined Contributions: exploring the multilevel climate governance gap

open access: yesnpj Urban Sustainability
This study assesses the integration of urban climate action within Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) under the Paris Agreement. Analysing 194 updated NDCs, we investigated the level and type of urban-related content, including mitigation and ...
Nicola Tollin   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Biographies, ontological security and the socio‐spatial politics shaping teachers' mobility in remote Australia

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Urban resilience : planning for risk, crisis and uncertainty

open access: yes, 2016
As the cities of the world increasingly come under threat from crisis and disaster, planners are searching for ways to build resilience into the foundations of modern urban centres.This important book provides a comprehensive account of the theory and ...
Coaffee, Jon, Lee, Peter
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Occupational recognition and teachers’ retention intentions: A latent profile analysis informed by recognition theory

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Teacher retention is often explained through workload, job satisfaction and burnout, but these accounts have examined less systematically whether teachers experience their profession as socially and institutionally recognised. Drawing on recognition theory, this study examines how occupational recognition is configured across material and ...
Mengting Qian   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

European local authorities’ financial resilience in the face of austerity: a comparison across Austria, Italy and England [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
European local authorities have been particularly stricken by the current context of decline and cutback management, and represent an ideal place where to study how governments respond to shocks affecting their financial conditions and management.
Jones, M   +3 more
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