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Mortgage vs rent
Money & Business

Mortgage vs rent

...English renting. It would be nice if any government had a joined-up strategy on housing. I mean we’re never going to solve the housing problems in the UK, whether it's boom or bust, until we have a better balance between the number of housing units available and the demand for those housing units. We don’t have that now, we haven't had it probably since the Second...
Home education: levelling the playing field or increasing inequalities?
Education & Development

Home education: levelling the playing field or increasing inequalities?

...English for progression onto college or university or two, on an interest basis, if they had an interest in the subject outside of the exam. They don't necessarily work in the same way as schools a lot of kids don't write stuff down and there you know audio learners or kinaesthetic learners. - Young person T EHE students’ unstructured and non-linear, self-taught...
Building peace through teaching Remembrance Sunday
Education & Development

Building peace through teaching Remembrance Sunday

...English combatant who was killed in 1916. In 2014, his photograph appeared on a First Class Stamp to commemorate the centenary of the conflict. But underneath the image, and cropped out from the stamp, is the annotation William’s mother added to the photograph that she sent in remembrance of her son to the Imperial War Museum in 1919. It begins ‘Mother’s Billie...
Child spirituality
Education & Development

Child spirituality

...The Oxford Book of Nineteenth-Century English Verse Edited by John Hayward, Clarendon Press On Becoming a Person Carl Ransom Rogers, Houghton Mifflin Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak, Harmondsworth / Penguin. Poem S Webster Positive News No15, Winter/Spring Home is Where We Start From Donald Woods Winnicott, Harmondsworth/Penguin. Read more articles on childhood...
'Bad Apples' or Organisational Cultures?
Education & Development

'Bad Apples' or Organisational Cultures?

...inequality in English secondary schools: A critical review of the research literature between 1980 and 2005’, Review of Educational Research, 77(2), pp. 147–185. Strand, S. (2014) ‘Ethnicity, gender, social class and achievement gaps at age 16: Intersectionality and “getting it” for the white working class’, Oxford Review of Education, 40(2), pp. 223–245....
Black History Month 2022 talks
Education & Development

Black History Month 2022 talks

...English scholars, and clergymen. The significance of this is their active involvement or connection with the transatlantic slave trade and enslavers. Carol’s goal is to inspire the academic and public community to increase their knowledge and explore past events in history. Transcript Misogynoir: challenges in detecting intersectional hate Joseph Kwarteng is a PhD...
The range of work with young people
Education & Development

The range of work with young people

...everyday words referring to familiar and straightforward processes – they are not specialist or technical terms. Neither is very precise, but they do not need to be. Their basic meanings are captured succinctly by ordinary dictionary definitions (in this case from The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary): describe: to set forth in words by reference to characteristics …...
The body: a phenomenological psychological perspective
Society, Politics & Law

The body: a phenomenological psychological perspective

...everyday lives. It is impossible to separate our bodies from who we are and what we do in the social world. At all levels – individual, relational and cultural – we can see that something as apparently ‘personal’ and ‘natural’ as the body is also intensely ‘social’. In Section 2 of this course we will consider connections between an individual's body,...