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‘Let's talk about the weather’: The activist curriculum and global climate change education

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Activist movements have garnered significant global attention on a range of sustainability issues, often involving collectives of citizens coming together. Invoked is the idea of citizens informed to act, emerging not from a common‐sense understanding of everyday life, but rather from a deep political understanding of the world—one that is ...
Richard Pountney
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

Existence of Solutions and Convergence of a Multistep Iterative Algorithm for a System of Variational Inclusions with -Accretive Operators

open access: yesFixed Point Theory and Applications, 2007
We introduce and study a new system of variational inclusions with -accretive operators, which contains variational inequalities, variational inclusions, systems of variational inequalities, and systems of variational inclusions in the literature as ...
Zhu Dao-Li   +2 more
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Pathways to employment: Subject choice, job requirements, and early employment outcomes for UK undergraduates

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Higher education in the United Kingdom has dramatically expanded in recent decades, along with questions about its effectiveness in preparing graduates for the labour market. With rising tuition fees and increasing competition for graduate jobs, many students opt to study ‘professional’ subjects—fields closely tied to specific professions ...
Sarah Pemberton
wiley   +1 more source

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