Call for Papers: New thinking!

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Contributions are invited for the Spring 2024 number of FORUM (66/1) for which the copy date is Friday 10 November, 2023.

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Failure by admission

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Grammar school initiatives to attract more children from lower income families have made little impact and the Government appears indifferent. Nuala Burgess, Chair of the campaigning organisation Comprehensive Future, considers the latest evidence.

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First, do no harm

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FORUM’s summer number addresses the way teaching is being reconfigured by the assault on Initial Teacher Education and the erosion of teacher professionalism. It is introduced by Patrick Yarker.

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Hinges and Turns

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Colin Richards considers the changes to school inspection over recent decades which have culminated in what he calls ‘a kind of dominated “professionalism”’. He looks forward to the prospect of educational renewal under a different government.

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FORUM 65.1 Spring 2023: Thinking again

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Educational developments in Scotland and Wales are a particular focus of the Spring 2023 number of FORUM, which Patrick Yarker introduces.

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Michael Gove

Claimocracy and the dismantling of public education

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Ten years on from Michael Gove’s notorious ‘Enemies of Promise’ article which derided the work of education researchers, Helen Gunter considers how the rise of government by assertion erodes democracy.

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NEU members on strike: a struggle for the future of state education

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Howard Stevenson outlines why huge number of teachers have vote for strike action.

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A fully trust-led system?

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Patrick Yarker introduces the latest issue of FORUM, in which the failings of the academisation policy are anatomised, and rejects the view that teaching is ‘delivery’.

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Clyde Chitty 31 August 1944 – 7 November 2022

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Patrick Yarker writes on behalf of the FORUM Editorial Board in memory of Professor Clyde Chitty, the journal’s long-time editor, indefatigable in the cause of comprehensive education.

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