Cyhoeddiadau

Despite extensive research on the role of ‘personal’ capital on labour market transitions, little is known about how those with elite credentials use networks and connection to improve their labour market chances. This becomes especially relevant within debates on the meritocratic nature of the post-industrial labour market. This article investigates how networks and connections aid…

The Assisted Places Scheme was introduced in 1980 by the Conservative Government to provide a’ladder of opportunity’ for academically able students from poor homes. Over the next 17 years,more than 75,000 pupils received means-tested assistance from public funds to attend the mostselective and prestigious private schools in England and Wales. The Scheme proved highlycontroversial and…

After Buber’s death the appreciation of his considerable legacy to the various disciplines in which he had worked became rather muted, but was never completely forgotten. There is now a renewed and growing interest in Buber’s thought, especially in his philosophy of education. This book brings together aspects of Buber’s philosophy and educational practice, and…

A brief overview of the Pupil Deprivation Grant evaluation which WISERD undertook for the Wesh Government.

A brief overview of the WISERDEducation research project.  

Towards the end of 2012, Mrs Irina Bokova, Director-General of UNESCO, invited a senior group of experts in their personal capacity to revisit the Faure Report (1972) and the Delors Report (1996). This international group, co-chaired by Amina Mohammed, of Nigeria, and by W. John Morgan, of the United Kingdom, was asked to develop a…

This paper explores the complex relationship between social justice and education in the public and private spheres. The politics of education is often presented as a battle between left and right, the state and the market. In this representation, the public and the private spheres are neatly aligned on either side of the line of…

Polisi blaenllaw Llywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer addysg y blynyddoedd cynnar (i blant 3 i 7 oed) yng Nghymru yw’r Cyfnod Sylfaen. Mae’n nodi gwyriad radical oddi wrth yr ymagwedd fwy ffurfiol, yn seiliedig ar gymhwysedd, a oedd yn gysylltiedig â Chwricwlwm Cenedlaethol blaenorol Cyfnod Allweddol 1, ac mae’n eiriol dull atblygiadol, arbrofol o addysgu a…

Polisi amlwg gan Lywodraeth Cymru ar gyfer addysg blynyddoedd cynnar (i blant 3-7 oed) yng Nghymru yw’r Cyfnod Sylfaen. Mae’n newid cyfeiriad sylweddol o’r dull mwy ffurfiol ar sail galluoedd oedd yn gysylltiedig â’r Cwricwlwm Cenedlaethol blaenorol ar gyfer Cyfnod Allweddol 1. Mae’r polisi wedi’i gyflwyno fesul tipyn dros y saith mlynedd ddiwethaf er mwyn…