🗣️ "At 26, I’m learning to live out something I’ve always known, to be loud and proud about the way I sound and the voice I have."
Our research on accents has been cited in a personal piece discussing regional identity by a freelance producer ⬇️
https://t.co/12toYVoGjy
🚨 NEW: Social mobility is either flat or declining across wealthier countries.
Our new research, supported by @CarnegieCorp, shows how expanding access to higher education hasn't delivered system wide social mobility gains, with family background still shaping outcomes 🧵⤵️
As universities prepare students for a future shaped by #GenAI, the challenge is to use technology as a co-pilot while fostering skills that AI cannot replace: critical thinking, creativity and ethical reasoning, writes Thomas Menkhoff: https://t.co/l0iSqcDEck #CriticalThinking #AI
Marie Maynard Daly co-discovered the link between high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and the clogged arteries that can cause heart disease and strokes. She also investigated the damage that cigarettes have on the heart and lung circulatory systems. https://t.co/jcNCZHzkeg
This x 100.
New podcast episode dropping later today: what happens when a city finally takes on the deep divides in its school system? We go inside the vote that could change everything — and explore the power imbalance that gets in the way of change.
You can’t build a successful education system around shame, embarrassment, detention & exclusion. You can’t create inclusion for all via a curriculum that only works for some. So as the saying goes “If the child doesn’t learn the way you teach, start teaching the way they learn.”
On class analysis vis-à-vis wealth inequality: “Financial habits, risk-taking behaviours and intergenerational wealth transfers perpetuate class advantages, reinforcing social hierarchies” Nora Waitkus in our 100th blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog
https://t.co/wmqoaTjQtD
Our SIG’s newsletter is now out! In this issue, we continue celebrating the publication of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Bourdieu and Educational Research, which features the scholarship of many SIG members.
Access here:
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@RachelReevesMP@bphillipsonMP you may want to consider how your choice of language is condescending. It undermines their professionalism, its stereotyping, reinforces deficit narratives of education and, worryingly, reflects a negative attitude towards the #workingclass.
Over £600m to train up to 60,000 more engineers, brickies, sparkies, and chippies.
Homegrown skills to deliver our Plan for Change and build 1.5 million homes for families across the country.
That’s the difference Labour in power makes.
https://t.co/DHkfWPXnED
Please share - call for papers
Benefits and challenges of integrating lived experience in higher education
Special Issue Editors: Snita Ahir-Knight & @DrHazelGodfrey
Submissions due 25 April 2025
More info https://t.co/oS0UedJUGg
#LivedExperience#HigherEd#Universities#CFP