The Robert Owen Centre for Educational Change hosted colleagues from the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso for a professional learning visit in September/early October, where they travelled to Scotland to find out more about leading initial teacher education. Colleagues participated in university sessions and visits to local primary and secondary schools. Their university sessions includedContinue reading “University welcomes Chilean visitors for study visit”
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Celebratory event marks first year of Every Dundee Learner Matters
Dundee City Council will celebrate the first year of the Every Dundee Learner Matters (EDLM) strategy today with an event at The Steeple, bringing together local authority staff and educational practitioners who have worked together to improve the quality of education for all children and young people in the city. Every Dundee Learner Matters isContinue reading “Celebratory event marks first year of Every Dundee Learner Matters”
NSEE team wins University of Glasgow award
Researcher Romina Madrid (right) talks to a teacher at Berryhill Primary School. Photo credit: Stuart Hall. The Network for Social and Educational Equity (NSEE) at the Robert Owen Centre for Educational Change has won the Best Policy & Practice Collaboration at the University of Glasgow’s annual engagement awards for 2021. In the last eight years,Continue reading “NSEE team wins University of Glasgow award”
Education survey finds encouraging results for collaborative practices
The Network for Social and Educational Equity undertook a survey of educational professionals in the west of Scotland. The survey is part of work we are doing to evaluate the effectiveness of the West Partnership Regional Improvement Collaborative, Scotland’s biggest RIC in terms of the number of schools and pupils. It gave us a snapshotContinue reading “Education survey finds encouraging results for collaborative practices”
Every Dundee Learner Matters
Dundee, together with researchers from the University of Glasgow’s Robert Owen Centre for Educational Change, is to launch a major new strategy aimed at improving the quality of education for all children and young people in the city. Developed by a group of experienced head teachers, the two-year initiative will be evaluated by the universityContinue reading “Every Dundee Learner Matters”
Trust in teachers to break the links between education and disadvantage
As countries seek to strengthen their national educational systems the great challenge is to ensure that all children are included and treated fairly, and yet a new book due out this summer argues that the established link between education and disadvantage has yet to be broken. ‘Educational Equity: Pathways to Success’, edited by Professors ChristopherContinue reading “Trust in teachers to break the links between education and disadvantage”
Widening the gap
By Stuart Hall and Kevin Lowden As part of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic the Scottish Government closed school buildings in Scotland toward the end of February 2020 for three months. Most local authorities kept some schools open to provide day care for the children of keyworkers and for other families with additionalContinue reading “Widening the gap”
Launch of practitioner panel
This month, we launched the Network for Social and Educational Equity’s teacher practitioner panel, a group that aims to develop an ongoing relationship between leading practitioners in education, and researchers at the Robert Owen Centre for Educational Change where NSEE is based. With more than 30 attendees from schools and education authorities across the westContinue reading “Launch of practitioner panel”