Education
Time was when museums were staid, dusty institutions. Those days are long gone. Jon Sleigh tells George Miller why he structured the book around conversations with museum professionals about specific exhibits in a wide range of institutions. …Read more
Uta Bolt looks at essays written by 11-year-old girls in 1969 to see if their predictions for life at 25 affected their earning outcomes.…Read more
Two Convivial Thinkers ask whether higher ed can really ‘decolonise development’ when only some voices are heard and others are silenced. We must still aim to dismantle the logics of neoliberal academia, however daunting. …Read more
Dave Beck addresses the plight of university students living in poverty as a result of the cost-of-living crisis. One in four regularly go without food because they simply cannot afford it. …Read more
Sandra Lyndon, Carla Solvason and Rebecca Webb consider the role of the Health and Wellbeing Lead in a primary school in SE England, and what a crucial cog it is in the wheel of care and education. …Read more
Nicola Roberts, Lauren Doyle and Mark Roberts call on universities to reframe their personal safety advice to students to avoid victim-blaming.…Read more
Jessie Abrahams' new book reveals the extent of class inequality in schools in the UK. By telling Jessie's story and that of one of the young people in her research, this episode untangles the role aspiration plays for young people in school and the significance of the different choices that are available to different pupils in different schools.…Read more
Anton McLean, author of 'Educational Collateral Damage', examines why socioeconomically disadvantaged pupils continue to get a poor deal.…Read more
Sam Illingworth, author of 'Poetry and Pedagogy in Higher Education', shows how poetry can play a pivotal role in shifting public discourse towards a common ground amid the other less palatable Ps of populism, polarisation and post-truth. …Read more
In this episode, Richard Kemp speaks with Nigel Thrift, author of 'The Pursuit of Possibility: Redesigning Research Universities', about research universities and what makes them different.…Read more