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What are your views about technologies to support and assess writing skills?
Education & Development

What are your views about technologies to support and assess writing skills?

...technologies have been used by publishers to ensure the authenticity of written work, as well as by educational institutions to prevent fraud and to increase trust in online assessments. Among these, TeSLA is a European platform which combines biometrics and textual analysis instruments for authenticating student identity and verifying authenticity of their work....
We learn, together: exploring familial learning in home education
Education & Development

We learn, together: exploring familial learning in home education

...educated across the UK...Find out more about The Open University’s Childhood and Youth Studies qualification. This includes a significant number of families choosing to keep children’s learning outside of formal schooling following the COVID lockdowns of 2020 and 2021. Some suggest that the numbers of home-educated children are vastly under-represented in surveys done...
Why school-based sex education isn’t inclusive enough
Health, Sports & Psychology

Why school-based sex education isn’t inclusive enough

...education in schools remains a widely debated and contentious subject. Increasingly, attention is being drawn to the ‘invisibility’ of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) health issues and the need for more inclusive sex education in schools in Great Britain. So what is the evidence behind these calls? [School children] Only 13% of pupils have learnt about...
Supporting social work learners: practice educator refresher (England)
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting social work learners: practice educator refresher (England)

...educator (PE) supporting social work students in England with this free course. Designed for qualified and registered social workers who have already undertaken their PEPS (Practice Educator Professional Standards) training, this course enables practitioners to engage in reflective practice and demonstrate their currency in working to support a student again after a...
Pineapples and Pashto: building intercultural competence through Peace Education
Education & Development

Pineapples and Pashto: building intercultural competence through Peace Education

...Education? In Peace at the Heart, a recent report on education in British schools commissioned by Quakers in Britain, David Gee and co-authors explain that: Peace Education is a critical approach to personal and social development rooted in a commitment to ‘peace’: not only the absence of violence but also the presence of relationships that work well. All school...
Crafting a new international partnership for racial equity in Higher Education
Education & Development

Crafting a new international partnership for racial equity in Higher Education

...education is being free of baggage, by virtue of its young age, that many old universities carry from colonial history. It is therefore arguably well equipped to approach current debates like decolonising curricula with fresh eyes and a clearer conscience. How the partnership can benefit from this background was already given preliminary indication as the two institutions...
How can we stop science, engineering and technology losing talented women?
Digital & Computing

How can we stop science, engineering and technology losing talented women?

...education. There are more young women entering universities than ever before and they are graduating each year in their hundreds of thousands. But for those that go on to work as academics in science, technology, engineering or maths (STEM), it is still very much a man’s world. The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee published a report on Women in...
The world will have to wait until 2084 for universal secondary school education
Society, Politics & Law

The world will have to wait until 2084 for universal secondary school education

...education targets...[Globe and a bachelor's hat cartoon, society matters] Almost a year after a new set of Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 were finalised, the first report tracking global progress towards its goal for education and lifelong learning shows just how far there is still to go to make sure nobody is left behind. The SDGs replaced the Millennium...