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In the last few decades, attempts at increasing student involvement in various forms and in several countries have challenged the notion that education is something that happens to people. Drawing on sources from the last 15 years or so mainly…

The current British taught master’s programmes are highly attractive to both home and overseas students because of their short, intensive and well-organised features. This critical review provides a conceptual framework to explore the taught master’s students’ curricular engagement in the…

Despite research that continues to question the effectiveness of setting and ability-grouping strategies, schools maintain and increase stratifying practices, such as setting, banding and streaming, to raise attainment levels. While past studies in England have investigated various aspects of school-level…

The paper raises questions about the meaning of academic identity, discusses professionalism and asks what is a profession? Both trait and functionalist models are presented as a means of understanding these areas. Two key papers relating to academic identity -…

This paper considers the phenomenon of age-grouping in English Schools from the standpoint of the possible disadvantage experienced by younger children in a cohort. It is argued that conventional age-grouping is the combined result of an accident of history, political…