nualaburgess.bsky.social
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There is growing interest across the UK in developing more ‘tertiary’ approaches to post-compulsory education, encouraging greater coordination between further and higher education institutions. Read more here:
www.edge.co.uk/research/pro...
Tertiary pathways in practice
www.edge.co.uk
October 6, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Our first podcast - defending the spirit of youth work. Thanks to "It's Just Research" team for lovely conversation on youth work, policy, social haunting, and creative collaborative research.

www.kcl.ac.uk/its-just-res...

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July 7, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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State schools have closed the gap with private schools in GCSE results, once we adjust for socioeconomic differences in their intakes.

New findings in our paper published today in Cambridge Review of Education: https://doi.org/10.1080/0305764X.2024.2420611
Private school pupils’ performance in GCSEs (and IGCSEs)
Using rich longitudinal data from the UK’s Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), the authors compare the performance of private and state school pupils in age 16 national examinations (GCSEs) in England, ...
doi.org
November 21, 2024 at 7:35 AM
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We're hiring! We're looking for a Research Associate to join the Young Lives, Young Futures team. Check out the role here: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/099825-...
Research Associate
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November 18, 2024 at 1:36 PM
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💸 Exclusive: Grammar schools have been accused of 'making a fast buck out of parents' 11-plus test anxiety' after an investigation found their parent and teacher associations are raking in thousands running mock exams

Full story 🔽
Mock entrance exams boost grammars’ funds
Money raised through PTA-run tests helping to pay for grammar school MacBooks, cricket nets and new buildings
buff.ly
September 6, 2024 at 9:23 AM