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Articles on Primary education
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Starting school early improves disadvantaged children’s learning, according to a new study from the University of New South…
Each new administration tends to try to improve compulsory education by introducing a new and purportedly better type of school. The current government has at least three, and is pushing vocational schools…
There is an assumption that children perform better amongst highly achieving peers. High class achievement might be thought to indicate better teaching, or to induce academic competition between students…
A new subject is to be introduced in England to kick start our technological future. Instead of teaching ICT, the national curriculum published this week calls on schools to teach computing. This new way…
In his new National Curriculum for schools in England, announced this week, Education Secretary Michael Gove pledged to modernise design and technology education. This is thought to include introducing…
Education Secretary Michael Gove announced yesterday that the National Curriculum for schools in England is to be overhauled, with a new subject structure and lists of content. Gove’s curriculum includes…
Malnurition at an early age can have a lasting effect on a child’s educational progress, researchers at the University of…
Children who move frequently while young are more likely to have behavioural problems - but only if they’re from low income…
School students today are taught physics based on obsolete theories and outmoded ways of thinking. Instead of the truth, most learn a naive simplification - the 300 year-old Newtonian physics, itself based…
Schoolchildren should be classed by intellectual ability in subject groupings rather than lumped together according to age, says Miraca Gross, the University of New South Wales’ Professor of Gifted Education…
There is no excuse for Indigenous education in Australia to be in such a terrible and shameful state. Given the billions of dollars that are allocated to primary and secondary schooling Australia-wide…
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Professor of Education and Public Policy, Durham University
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Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Associate Lecturer, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Emeritus Professor Miraca Gross, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor, School of International Studies and Education, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences., University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Education, Durham University
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Professor of Intellectual Property and Innovation Law; Director Centre for Intellectual Property Policy and Managament (CIPPM), Bournemouth University, Bournemouth University
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Lecturer, Victoria University
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ESRC Future Research Leader Fellow, The University of Edinburgh
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science
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PhD student, University of Essex
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Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, University of York
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Senior Lecturer in Education, Canterbury Christ Church University
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Lecturer, Communication and Conflict Management, Mount Kenya University
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Emeritus Professor, ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery, OzGrav, The University of Western Australia
