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Webinar participant – Comprehensive Future Webinar: What would a socially just education look like?
Comprehensive Future Webinar: What would a socially just education look like? | 20th September 2021 As debate about the future of...
Alan Bainbridge
May 16, 20221 min read
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Public Lecture – Eco-socialism and Learning to Live with the World
Public Lecture - Canterbury Christ Church University: Eco-socialism and Learning to Live with the World. Dr Alan Bainbridge | Open...
Alan Bainbridge
May 16, 20221 min read
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How Members of Parliament respond to evidence in relation to secondary selective education
The Impact of Research Evidence on Education Policy: How Members of Parliament respond to evidence in relation to secondary selective...
Alan Bainbridge
May 16, 202210 min read
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What Shall we do with a Global Pandemic (to the tune of “What shall we do with a drunken sailor?”)
There is a global pandemic, and life for many of us has changed to an extent that could not have been imagined as we wrote our present...
Alan Bainbridge
Jul 13, 20204 min read
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The Grammar School Fetish: the ‘magic’ of selection
I shall start by making the provocative observation that the current debate on grammar schools, in Marxian terms, represents a fetish. If...
Alan Bainbridge
Sep 22, 20194 min read
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Pardoning the Thanksgiving Turkey … and Social mobility
There is a charming tradition in the USA where in the run-up to Thanksgiving, one bird is chosen to be ‘pardoned’ by the President. I’m...
Alan Bainbridge
Jan 27, 20196 min read
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Educational Purpose: measurement or memories?
Recently a local online newspaper in Kent published the dramatic headline ‘The Best and Worst Schools in Kent based on GCSE results in...
Alan Bainbridge
Oct 25, 20184 min read
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What to do with £50 million?
So, here is the problem: how do you allow all young people fair and equal access to an education that will enable them to fulfil their...
Alan Bainbridge
Jun 26, 20183 min read
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Grammar Schools to receive £200 million funding boost
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Alan Bainbridge
Jun 11, 20181 min read
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Values, the 11-plus… and sausage rolls
I probably eat too much of the wrong food and do not get enough sleep to optimise my cognitive capacity. I also know that these decisions...
Alan Bainbridge
Apr 16, 20183 min read
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What is the point of testing children at 10?
In a previous commentary piece I announced my separation from the world of evidence. I asked those who support selecting children by test...
Alan Bainbridge
Apr 16, 20183 min read
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