Critical thinking is a core goal of higher education, with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development citing it as ‘among the most important skills that young adults ...

Questions of what constitutes ‘important’ knowledge, whose epistemologies we value, and how we manage competing knowledge claims are central to the design of curricula in plural ...

Inclusivity as a concept is widely discussed, taught and applied as education grapples with difficult questions of equity and fairness in times of increasing human complexity. However, its ...

Internationally validated literacy assessments, like the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), are widely administered around the world for their flexibility to be ...

Walaa Mouma is a PhD researcher in Applied Linguistics at Swansea University, where her research focuses on multilingual approaches to English language teaching to migrants. She holds a BA ...

Dr. Gwennan Higham is a Senior Lecturer in Welsh at Swansea University specialising in the sociolinguistics of the Welsh language, with a focus on language policy, migration, and ...

Dr Lise Westaway is an assistant professor at the United Arab Emirates University and holds a PhD in Early Years Mathematics. She has extensive experience teaching both pre-service and ...

After nearly a century, children’s and parents’ freedom of belief in education finally came before the highest UK court in a significant case about religious education (RE) in Northern ...

Gen Z, those born between 1997 and 2012, are often criticised for a perceived lack of professionalism and an inability to adapt to the demands of traditional workplaces (Knight, 2024).

Second career academics, or ‘pracademics’ are ‘former or current practitioners who are now university academics’ (Dickinson et al., 2020, p. 290). They come from a wide variety ...

Over the past decade, English (as a curriculum subject) has been stripped of its soul and creativity. What was once a subject that celebrated imagination and voice has been reduced to a ...

Matteo Sciberras is a senior lecturer in Education at Kingston University, working across the Primary PGCE and BA (Hons) Primary Education routes leading to Qualified Teacher Status.