Professor Jo Fraser-Pearce
@jofraser-pearce.bsky.social
Professor of Education and Religion at UCL’s Institute of Education.
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Landmark news: it's been recommended that reformed, inclusive Religious Education be added to the National Curriculum in England – with a full expert review of its content to follow. humanists.uk/2025/11/05/s...
Success! RE to be added to the National Curriculum
Reformed subject expected to be fully inclusive of humanism.
humanists.uk
November 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Landmark news: it's been recommended that reformed, inclusive Religious Education be added to the National Curriculum in England – with a full expert review of its content to follow. humanists.uk/2025/11/05/s...
I just remembered that I had a dream last night, in which I was agonising over what would be an appropriate alternative name for ‘Religious Education’. I need to get out more! Roll on the Pop Will Eat Itself gig on Saturday!
November 12, 2025 at 10:28 AM
I just remembered that I had a dream last night, in which I was agonising over what would be an appropriate alternative name for ‘Religious Education’. I need to get out more! Roll on the Pop Will Eat Itself gig on Saturday!
Today might be a pretty good day for RE. It’s great to see a review that makes sense, and seems genuinely concerned with children and young people, who should be at the heart of any such work (but too often are not). assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6908f7...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
November 5, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Today might be a pretty good day for RE. It’s great to see a review that makes sense, and seems genuinely concerned with children and young people, who should be at the heart of any such work (but too often are not). assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6908f7...
Reposted by Professor Jo Fraser-Pearce
Teacher Alchemy: Enhancing Understanding Through AI
What if the real promise of AI in education isn’t automation, prediction, or efficiency, but a richer understanding of how students think, argue, and develop ideas? In a new open-access article co-authored with Mutlu Cukurova, I explore the…
What if the real promise of AI in education isn’t automation, prediction, or efficiency, but a richer understanding of how students think, argue, and develop ideas? In a new open-access article co-authored with Mutlu Cukurova, I explore the…
Teacher Alchemy: Enhancing Understanding Through AI
What if the real promise of AI in education isn’t automation, prediction, or efficiency, but a richer understanding of how students think, argue, and develop ideas? In a new open-access article co-authored with Mutlu Cukurova, I explore the potential of digital textual analysis to support teachers in the humanities and social sciences. The question we ask is simple: can we combine machine learning with socio-cultural theory to help educators better understand learner development—without reducing students to data points?
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April 9, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Teacher Alchemy: Enhancing Understanding Through AI
What if the real promise of AI in education isn’t automation, prediction, or efficiency, but a richer understanding of how students think, argue, and develop ideas? In a new open-access article co-authored with Mutlu Cukurova, I explore the…
What if the real promise of AI in education isn’t automation, prediction, or efficiency, but a richer understanding of how students think, argue, and develop ideas? In a new open-access article co-authored with Mutlu Cukurova, I explore the…
This report produced by IOE colleagues is insightful and reminds of how much work we must continue to do in this area. discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
AI and Technology Wearables Task and Finish Group Report and Recommendations
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UCL Discovery
UCL Discovery is UCL's open access repository, showcasing and providing access to UCL research outputs from all UCL disciplines.
discovery.ucl.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 10:45 AM
This report produced by IOE colleagues is insightful and reminds of how much work we must continue to do in this area. discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
I read this article earlier in the week. I recommend it! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 2, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I read this article earlier in the week. I recommend it! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
This is not a neutral topic… But it is one that ... demands that we reckon with how our silences function, who they serve, and who they leave behind.
Gaza, higher education, and the ethics of institutional neutrality
Institutions are wary of speaking about Israel's actions in Gaza, but that silence has consequences, argues Aneeza Pervez
wonkhe.com
September 17, 2025 at 9:50 AM
This is not a neutral topic… But it is one that ... demands that we reckon with how our silences function, who they serve, and who they leave behind.
'When we centre care experienced voices in policy, in pedagogy, and in professional learning, we begin to close the awarding gap, the one that limits how we (and sometimes they) see their potential.'
Care experienced students are assets, not risks
It’s time we stop asking what care experienced students lack, argues Beccie Davis-Yates, and start focusing on the insight they can bring It’s time we stop asking what care experienced students lack, ...
wonkhe.com
September 1, 2025 at 7:44 AM
'When we centre care experienced voices in policy, in pedagogy, and in professional learning, we begin to close the awarding gap, the one that limits how we (and sometimes they) see their potential.'
'Compassion enables us to ask different questions: “What can we change?” AND “How will this change be experienced?” or “How do we become more efficient?” AND “How do we remain human while doing so?”'
HE transformation will only succeed when its people feel safe, supported and connected
As the HE sector faces pressure to "transform", Bridgette Bewick and Sarah Hubbard argue that it is compassion that will make transformation sustainable
wonkhe.com
September 1, 2025 at 7:34 AM
'Compassion enables us to ask different questions: “What can we change?” AND “How will this change be experienced?” or “How do we become more efficient?” AND “How do we remain human while doing so?”'
@profkeonwest.bsky.social I’ve just finished listening to ‘The Science of Racism’. Thank you!
August 26, 2025 at 8:09 AM
@profkeonwest.bsky.social I’ve just finished listening to ‘The Science of Racism’. Thank you!
"Female graduates are far more likely than their male peers to enter low-paying industries.” The saddest thing about this is that the “low-paying industries” referred to are health, social work and education!
UK gender pay gap begins at graduation as women quickly out-earned
Men on average take home 14% more five years after leaving university, according to FT analysis
www.ft.com
August 19, 2025 at 9:07 AM
"Female graduates are far more likely than their male peers to enter low-paying industries.” The saddest thing about this is that the “low-paying industries” referred to are health, social work and education!
"Rather than asking students to become more resilient, the more important question is how institutions can reduce the need for resilience in the first place."
Higher education misunderstands neurodivergence
Claire Inglis challenges higher education’s overreliance on resilience, exposing how the narrative masks systemic failures and burdens neurodivergent students with unrealistic expectations Claire Ingl...
wonkhe.com
August 18, 2025 at 8:50 AM
"Rather than asking students to become more resilient, the more important question is how institutions can reduce the need for resilience in the first place."
"The report notes that other groups of students also experienced exclusion. These included women, LGBTQ+ students, and students with a disability – although only disability came close to the magnitude of effects explained by social class and region."
For some students, home doesn't feel like home
Drawing on lived experience research, Abigail Lewis explores the realities of class-based exclusion and how institutions can respond
wonkhe.com
August 18, 2025 at 8:43 AM
"The report notes that other groups of students also experienced exclusion. These included women, LGBTQ+ students, and students with a disability – although only disability came close to the magnitude of effects explained by social class and region."
"if we don’t keep working creatively to address the disruption to education posed by AI – if we just wait and see how it plays out – it will be too late"
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What should the higher education sector do about AI fatigue?
The AI conversation is breaking down into silos, with many staff and students switching off or pushing back. Josh Thorpe calls for everyone to take a breath – and then come together and respond The AI...
wonkhe.com
July 29, 2025 at 2:18 PM
"if we don’t keep working creatively to address the disruption to education posed by AI – if we just wait and see how it plays out – it will be too late"
wonkhe.com/blogs/what-s...
wonkhe.com/blogs/what-s...
"A Palestinian scholar has been offered the chance to undertake a PhD at the Uni of Edinburgh… The opportunity could be taken away over refusal by the Home Office to issue a visa until she submits biometric data.
The biometrics registration centre in Gaza [is] closed."
news.stv.tv/east-central...
The biometrics registration centre in Gaza [is] closed."
news.stv.tv/east-central...
'I have a lifeline scholarship to study in Scotland - but I'm trapped in Gaza'
Shaimaa Abulebda has been given the chance to reclaim some of her old life - but remains stuck in Gaza because of government red tape.
news.stv.tv
July 25, 2025 at 9:56 AM
"A Palestinian scholar has been offered the chance to undertake a PhD at the Uni of Edinburgh… The opportunity could be taken away over refusal by the Home Office to issue a visa until she submits biometric data.
The biometrics registration centre in Gaza [is] closed."
news.stv.tv/east-central...
The biometrics registration centre in Gaza [is] closed."
news.stv.tv/east-central...
"sustained outreach makes a measurable difference to student progression into higher education (HE)—especially for those from disadvantaged backgrounds"
heat.ac.uk/research-evi...
heat.ac.uk/research-evi...
Contextualised HE Entry Track Impact Report – HEAT
heat.ac.uk
July 24, 2025 at 9:38 AM
"sustained outreach makes a measurable difference to student progression into higher education (HE)—especially for those from disadvantaged backgrounds"
heat.ac.uk/research-evi...
heat.ac.uk/research-evi...
“This is not hypothetical; some of these students have already been killed while waiting and others remain in constant danger."
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Ministers urged to help students trapped in Gaza with places at UK universities
Forty people who have been offered scholarships unable to travel without biometric data they have no way of getting
www.theguardian.com
July 23, 2025 at 8:49 AM
“This is not hypothetical; some of these students have already been killed while waiting and others remain in constant danger."
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
"schools and higher education institutions are a key site where trans and non-binary people’s safety needs to be considered"
Safety must shape policy on single-sex spaces
Anna Bull examines how evidence of trans and non-binary people's heightened vulnerability to sexual violence is absent from new EHRC guidance on single-sex spaces Anna Bull examines how evidence of tr...
wonkhe.com
July 21, 2025 at 9:04 AM
"schools and higher education institutions are a key site where trans and non-binary people’s safety needs to be considered"
This is a nice story :-)
Lecturer retires after nearly 60 years at Sussex university
Prof James Hirschfeld says of his 60 years at the University of Sussex:
www.bbc.co.uk
July 17, 2025 at 1:12 PM
This is a nice story :-)
Delighted and appreciative to be on this list, as Professor of Education and Religion. 🤩 And very grateful to colleagues near and far who have contributed to and supported this. You know who you are! 😘 www.ucl.ac.uk/human-resour...
Promotions 2023-24 - Successful List
Senior Academic, Research and Teaching Promotions 2023-24 successful list.
www.ucl.ac.uk
July 2, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Delighted and appreciative to be on this list, as Professor of Education and Religion. 🤩 And very grateful to colleagues near and far who have contributed to and supported this. You know who you are! 😘 www.ucl.ac.uk/human-resour...