Category: FORUM
Does the Student Grouping Study really support a call to back setting?
Rachel Marks looks closely at a recent and much-reported EEF study. She finds it falls far short of the headline claims
MOREFORUM Blog March Rage for order
With Reform UK polling strongly, Patrick Yarker commends the spring number of FORUM, whose lead article examines the malign phenomenon of contemporary right-wing populism.
MOREThe futures of teaching
Will the work of teaching become increasingly standardised as an individual teacher’s agency is further constrained?
MOREFORUM 68.2 Summer 2026 – Call for papers
Special issue: ‘The futures of teaching’, co-edited by Professor Viv Ellis and Professor Marie Brennan
MOREComprehensive education: completed or defeated? The Caroline Benn Memorial Lecture 2025
FORUM and the Socialist Education Association co-sponsor the annual Caroline Benn Memorial Lecture. Patrick Yarker gives an account of this year’s event.
MOREUnanswerable evidence?
The Autumn number of FORUM is now available. Patrick Yarker outlines how its contributors examine the purposes of education at a time of widespread child poverty and many another crisis.
MOREJust teach the thing that we tell you
Teachers are increasingly being required to use ‘standardised curricula’. Patrick Yarker considers a recent National Education Union report into a trend which is corroding professionalism.
MOREFORUM Spring 2026: Call for papers -Education and the new populism
Contributions are invited for the spring 2026 number of FORUM (68/1) for which the copy date is Friday 14 November 2025.
MORENot making it better: formal education and mental ill health
The prevalence of mental ill health among young people is on the rise. FORUM’s summer number addresses the way the school system is implicated, and, as Patrick Yarker writes, how it must change.
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