Today’s Education Select Committee: DfE Reform (23rd January 2013)

Our Young Expert Citizens have spent time and care designing their own research tools to gather data on a range of issues affecting young people living in Sussex and Buckinghamshire. If you are a young person living in either of these areas, with lived experience regarding any of the issues listed below, our Young Experts…

It’s easy to be sceptical about Labour’s embrace of a ‘mission-led government’, as outlined in Kier Starmer’s recent speech. Mariana Mazzucato’s original concept, whilst powerful in reclaiming the idea of state-led innovation that refuses to outsource thinking and action to the private sector, is light on what mission-led innovation has actually achieved.  The idea was…

Is it ever too late to work on our Social Emotional Learning? In January, the BBC reported on research that links students’ mental health and drug or alcohol use to their chosen subject. As a former psychology undergraduate, I know that people sometimes comment on how choosing to study psychology is often motivated by students’…