How to Break Into the Elite
Why don’t working class graduates with good degrees get the best jobs?
education
education
data visualization
Visualizing the numbers of different types of school in the UK
how useful are different types of data visualization for displaying information about the number of schools in the UK, and how they are changing over time?
education, Neoliberalism and The New Right
Evaluating the New Right’s Perspective on Education
results have improved since marketisation, but at the expense of teaching the test and widening class inequalities.
education, Postmodernism and Late Modernsim
Postmodernism and Education
A postmodern education should be diverse, individualised and allow choice. The British education system is not particularly postmodern!
education, Education Policy, Sociology key terms
Inside the school’s cuts crisis
This 2019 Panorama documentary is a case study in the effects of education funding cuts on one primary school in
education, Globalisation
Huge increase in Chinese students studying at UK universities – a funny kind of ‘globalisation’
The U.K. now issues more than 100 000 student visas per year to Chinese students studying at British universities, with
Does student debt reduce a person’s income and career prospects in later life?
Tech Billionaire Robert F. Smith recently pledged to pay off the student loans of an entire 2019 graduating class of
education, Gender and education, Sociology key terms
The University of Cambridge appoints first female black head of a college
Jesus College Cambridge recently appointed the first ever black female as its head. This is the first time in British
education, Education Policy
The consequences of cutting bursaries for student nurses…
Cutting free tuition and bursaries for student nurses seems to be a good candidate for the one of the worst
A-levels, Exams and revision advice, Sociology key terms
Exam advice from the AQA’s Examiner Reports from 2018
The AQA produces an examiner report after every exam, and it’s very good advice to look at these reports to