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The resources on this page prompt reflection on how to enable more democratic and inclusive decision-making in education.
These briefing notes link to the What matters in education? panel discussion series. Jointly organised by the UCL Institute of Education Pro-Director Research and the ESRC Education Research Programme (ERP), the series aims to spark new thinking across education, social research and the wider social sciences on how research, policy and practice can most productively interact.
- Teacher recruitment, retention and development - rethinking policy and practice priorities
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Read the IOE Blog: Looking at teacher recruitment and retention in a new light
Watch the full panel discussion.MediaCentral Widget Placeholderhttps://mediacentral.ucl.ac.uk/Player/2EcfHa9d - Practical policies or bright ideas? How particular topics get to the front of the policy queue
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Read the IOE Blog: How should research, policy and practice interact in the interests of education?- Pupil absence: Questions for policy, for research and in practice
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Read the IOE Blog: Rising school absence: what do we know and what can we do?Watch the full panel discussion
MediaCentral Widget Placeholderhttps://mediacentral.ucl.ac.uk/Play/106880 - Investing in the Early Years: Priorities and challenges
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Read the IOE Blog: We need an overhaul of England’s early childhood system, not ‘just’ more childcare
Watch the full panel discussion.MediaCentral Widget Placeholderhttps://mediacentral.ucl.ac.uk/Play/109861 - Education after the election: priorities for change
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Read the IOE blog: Teacher education, research and practice: addressing the recruitment and retention crisis through the reassertion of professional judgement
Watch the full panel discussion- More or less technology in the classroom – the value and purposes of technology use in school
Read the IOE Blog: EdTech. A solution looking for a problem?
Watch the full panel discussion
- Democratic decision-making in English education: whose voices count?
Resources include:
- a recording of each event (where possible),
- a blog on the topic,
- a summary of the discussion,
- the questions raised in Q&A between the panel and the audience.
Together they highlight gaps in current knowledge that could usefully be filled.
To set an agenda for educational change:
We are mindful of the differences in policy priorities across the 4 nations of the UK.
We recognise that what matters most in education right now may well vary: for parents, families and pupils, practitioners, policymakers and researchers in different parts of the country.
In choosing our topics and our speakers we want to reflect that diversity of views and find ways of enabling more democratic and inclusive decision-making in education.
That includes finding new forms of partnership working in education that can change how research, policy and practice interact.
