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TESSA: Equal Opportunities for Pupils
Education & Development

TESSA: Equal Opportunities for Pupils

...Education in Sub Saharan Africa) initiative... TESSA - Public Holiday Kwame tries to ensure that Ejike will not ruin his appraisal but Ejike ends up saving the day TESSA - The Smart Father Linus deals with bullying in a clever way. TESSA - The Lost Boy Ejike suffers from a crisis of confidence and runs away. TESSA - Seeking Help Florence helps a pupil overcome her shyness...
Systems engineering: Challenging complexity
Science, Maths & Technology

Systems engineering: Challenging complexity

...technologies was developed and became operational within 18 months. Box 1 Choatic scheme that left families relying on food parcels Demands mount for overhaul of aid that led to ‘debt and despair’ Gordon Brown, the chancellor, faced fresh calls last night for a radical overhaul of the tax credit system after the Treasury published figures showing that administration...
What is socialisation? The one minute guide
Education & Development

What is socialisation? The one minute guide

...technologies to do with the necessities of everyday life. Socialisation is also a long, drawn-out process and in some respects can continue throughout our whole lifetime: for example when adults find themselves interacting with people from unfamiliar cultures. Even when we join a new social group in our own culture there may be a need to adjust to new ways of behaving....
Supporting children’s learning in the early years
Education & Development

Supporting children’s learning in the early years

...technologies. This material forms part of The Open University course E124 Supporting children’s learning in the early years... Supporting children’s learning in the early years An introduction to the contents of this album. Learning with “mini-beasts” A teacher observes and reflects on the learning patterns of the children she works with. Planning in teams How...
Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One
Education & Development

Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part One

...educational attainment and poor literacy/numeracy skills, are unemployed and come from a lower income or impoverished background. There is a stronger link, therefore, between poverty and prisons than there is between dangerousness and prisons. In the U.S. around 16,000 people die each year as a result of street crime. Contrast this with the 55,000 who die as a result of...
Emmy Noether: Bucking the historical trends
Science, Maths & Technology

Emmy Noether: Bucking the historical trends

...education, women are opting to work in sciences such as biology and medical sciences, rather than mathematics and physics. Historically, women have not enjoyed educational equality. Indeed, Oxford only began awarding degrees to women in the 1920s. Even today the number of women receiving degrees in mathematics is half that of men. In turn, this lack of access has seeded a...
Challenging gender discrimination in academia: a call for inclusive change
Education & Development

Challenging gender discrimination in academia: a call for inclusive change

...education: Maximising impacts (Executive summary). Available at: https://www.britishcouncil.org/sites/default/files/gender_equality_in_higher_education_executive_summary.pdf Dias Lopes, A. and Wakeling, P. (2022) ‘Inequality in early career research in the UK life sciences’. Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. Available at:
Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge
Society, Politics & Law

Researching at the Margins: How Collective Autoethnography centred Black mothers’ knowledge

...Education and Claire’s in Politics, strengthened our analysis, showing how identity, care and power intersected across contexts. Perhaps most importantly, CoAE embodied the principle we were advocating; Black mothers’ experiences are a legitimate source of knowledge about the systems we navigate. In Mothering at the Margins, we modelled the kind of research that...