In this short piece, Dr Jo Neary of the Network for Social and Educational Equity (NSEE) reflects on how schools’ responses to COVID-19 both emphasised existing good practice and challenged schools to reflect on their social responsibility role within the community. In April 2020, over 180 countries implemented school closures in response to the communityContinue reading “What can we learn from COVID-19?”
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ICSEI Congress 2022
/*! elementor – v3.5.3 – 18-01-2022 */ .elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block;width:var(–img-width)}.elementor-widget-image a img{width:100%}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=”.svg”]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block;width:var(–img-width)} The International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement (ICSEI) ran its second virtual congress on 5-6 and 10-11 January 2022, hosted by the ICSEI board (of which Professor Chris Chapman is president) and Norway’s LearnLab. Presentations at the congress addressed collaborationContinue reading “ICSEI Congress 2022”
The impact of Covid-19 on families in rural areas
In collaboration with Policy Scotland and Children’s Neighbourhoods Scotland, the Network for Social and Educational Equity is undertaking a programme of research and intelligence gathering in high poverty settings across Scotland that seeks to understand how local responses are working in the current rapidly changing context and provide insights that can support the next phaseContinue reading “The impact of Covid-19 on families in rural areas”
School inspections during the pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic is a global crisis that has presented significant challenges to education systems. These have included whole system shutdown of schools, the cancelling of national examinations and a shift to distance and digital learning. Regular school inspections have stopped in many countries for the time being and the participants of a recent webinarContinue reading “School inspections during the pandemic”
Children’s Neighbourhoods Scotland – annual report out now
The Children’s Neighbourhoods Scotland (CNS) annual report, which provides an update and overview of the organisation’s work programme as well as what is to come in the next year, is out now. The report was written during the COVID-19 pandemic and, as was the case with many others, the work of the CNS team changedContinue reading “Children’s Neighbourhoods Scotland – annual report out now”