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Identifying Components of Attainment Gaps

The resource is a standalone report produced by the Department for Children, Schools and Families, which is designed to increase understanding of a number of factors affecting pupil attainment at the end of Key Stage Four. The report uses data collected as part of the Longitudinal Study of Young People in England (LSYPE) project. The research explores if the LSYPE data can be usefully combined...

09.06.10

This article is a briefing on sources available for Careers Education and Information, Advice and Guidance (IAG).

04.05.10

Teachers TV Traveller Girl

This video is part of the How am I different? series of Teachers TV programmes. It portrays the educational experiences of a ten year old Traveller girl of Irish heritage.

16.04.10

Article published to Multiverse

How Young People Formulate their Views about the Future: Exploratory Research

This is a 77 page 'exploratory research' report relating to the perceptions and views of year 7 pupils during 2008–2009 about their future education, careers and aspirations, and the factors which shape their thinking. These pupils will be amongst the first cohort to be affected by the raising of the educational participation age (RPA) to 17 in 2013. They will also be amongst the first pupils to...

14.04.10

Young people’s decision-making in 14-19 education and training: a review of the literature

This briefing paper reviews a specific range of the empirical research literature on the decisions that 14 to 19 year olds make about education and training. There is a section on studies which focus on demographic factors which will appeal to those interested in the relationship between macro and micro level factors; there is a section on school level studies which will appeal to those...

12.04.10

What Money Means - for primary schools

The Personal Finance Education Group (pfeg) is an independent charity helping schools to plan and teach personal finance relevant to students' lives and needs. Their philosophy is underpinned by both government policy and independent reviews affirming the need for personal finance education. This link directs readers to the ‘What Money Means’ micro-site, which presents an overview of pfeg’s...

26.03.10

Digital participation, digital literacy, and school subjects: A review of the policies, literature and evidence

The clearly stated aim of this thirty-page document is to “provide a critical introduction to the policies and research on the subjects of digital literacy and digital participation, seeking to show what they mean for classroom practice". Published in 2009, the document forms a recent addition to Futurelab’s Digital Participation project, a research and development programme which models, trials...

23.03.10

Education for all: the future of education and training for 14-19 year olds: Summary, Implications and Recommendations

The resource is a summary of the main findings, implications and recommendations from the independent Nuffield Review of 14-19 Education and Training in England and Wales, which is the largest review of this phase of Education since the Crowther Report of 1959. The full report is published by Routledge (2009).

18.01.10

Communities in recession: the impact on deprived neighbourhoods

This ‘Round-up’ reviews the evidence from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s body of research and neighbourhood level unemployment data 1985-2009, comparing the social and economic consequences on specific deprived areas of the UK. Comparisons are made with two former recessions (of the early 1980s and 1990s) with the recession of 2008-9. It reports on the extent to which these identified...

14.01.10

Teachers TV: Primary Management - Attainment and Inclusion...We can if....

This resource is a video produced by Teachers TV which focuses on attainment and inclusion in primary schools. The video demonstrates this focus through a case study at Highlands Primary School which is in the London Borough of Redbridge.

20.12.09

Article published to TTRB Special Educational Needs

Teachers TV STEM week

This week, w/c 23 November, Teachers TV features programmes which profile STEM Career Role Models, focusing on the impression made upon students when they meet some inspirational professionals, such as a planetary scientist and a spacecraft engineer.

23.11.09

Fade or flourish: how primary schools can build on children’s early progress

The resource is a report which is the final stage of an ongoing project at the Social Market Foundation (supported by the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation and the Sutton Trust). It explores the contribution of good quality pre-school experience to improving the life chances of disadvantaged children and their families. The paper sets out a review of the evidence and best-practice in primary schools...

19.10.09

Developing young people’s economic and business understanding. Business education in secondary schools, colleges and initial teacher training 2004/07

This is a 31 page report, by Ofsted, that evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of business education for 14 – 19 year olds from a range of different, and geographically spread, schools and colleges during the period April 2004 - December 2007.

07.10.09

Foresight Mental Capital and Wellbeing Project. Learning Difficulties : Future Challenges

This resource is a report which has been compiled by Professor Usha Goswami to contribute to a much larger document. The overall report has been commissioned by the Government Office for Science. The full report aims to advise the Government on how to achieve the best possible mental development and well-being for everyone in the UK. To make this exercise viable, the work was divided into...

02.10.09

Article published to TTRB Special Educational Needs

Influences and leverages on low levels of attainment: a review of literature and policy initiatives

This report from the Centre for Research on the Wider Benefits of Learning (WBL), based at the Institute of Education, London, is a review of a wide range of literature and policy initiatives considering the influences and leverages on low attainment in schools. In the context of this report a leverage is an initiative, intervention or strategy which seeks to tackle low attainment. It looks at...

14.09.09

Deprivation and Education: The evidence on pupils in England, Foundation Stage to Key Stage 4

This Government paper summarises research and statistical evidence about the effect of deprivation on the education of pupils from the foundation stage to key stage 4 in maintained mainstream schools. It is written by the Schools Analysis and Research Division of the DCSF.

18.08.09

Medical Conditions at School

The resource is a website to provide information to School and healthcare professionals who are working with pupils with medical conditions. The website is visually well laid out and engaging. It is easily navigable, having four major sections, a menu down the left hand side and a statement of purpose all contained within the front page.

30.07.09

Article published to TTRB Special Educational Needs

Excerpt from cover of transitions research report

Post-16 Transitions of Pupils with Special Educational Needs

This is a report on the first of five phases (called waves 1-5) of a longitudinal research study commissioned by the DfEE. It investigates the experiences, achievements and attitudes of young people with special educational needs during their transition from secondary education to early adult life. The aim of the study is to identify transition processes that are effective and where barriers are...

28.07.09

Article published to TTRB Special Educational Needs

Teachers TV Vocational Education Week

Teachers TV has a week of programmes (w/c 13 July) looking at all aspects of vocational education in secondary schools, including the new diplomas, vocational GCSEs and the benefits of collaboration between schools, FE colleges and training providers.

13.07.09

Your child, your schools, our future: building a 21st century schools system

The latest education white paper, 'Your child, your schools, our future: building a 21st century schools system', was published on 30 June. Within this, the Government describes reforms to meet the ‘challenges and changes' facing schools, and how these build on the developments of the last 12 years; included within these are changes to the curriculum, school partnerships, leadership and...

02.07.09