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Andrew Youde discusses the findings of research that explored the practices of tutors in blended learning contexts. Youde investigated the skills, qualities and competences, particularly emotional competences, contributing to tutor effectiveness with the exploration including analysis of learners’ perceptions of their quality.

The famous (and occasionally infamous) Duckworth-Lewis methodology for dealing with interruptions in limited overs cricket matches made its international debut in early 1997. For nearly 20 years, it has set the standard for target adjustment at nearly all levels of the game. In that time, though, it has not been static. Produced by Faculti Media Limited 2020. Intro by David Hilowitz.

Play is how children explore, discover, fail, succeed, socialize, and flourish. It is a fundamental element of the human condition. It’s the key to giving schoolchildren skills they need to succeed–skills like creativity, innovation, teamwork, focus, resilience, expressiveness, empathy, concentration, and executive function. Pasi Sahlberg, Finnish educator and scholar, and Fulbright Scholar Willia...

Overwhelming scientific evidence now shows that character strengths like self-control, curiosity, and gratitude are critically important to social and emotional well-being, physical health, and achievement. Although character strengths are malleable, surprisingly little is known about how they can be intentionally cultivated. Character Lab exists to research and create new ways to help all childre...

Non-interceptive beam profile monitors are highly desirable in almost all particle accelerators. Such techniques are especially valuable in applications where real time monitoring of the beam properties is required while beam preservation and minimal influence on the vacuum are of the greatest importance.

Christine Jones discusses Welsh Grammar You Really Need to Know. Jones explores how geography played a key role in the difference between dialects and key aspects of grammar in focus and individual language points.

Bill Blayney discusses a doctoral study that investigated the borderland discourses of the research participants who graduated from an initial pre-service teacher education degree through distance education.

David Boud discusses what makes for effective feedback, with reference to feedback in Higher Education.

Jerome Cranston, discusses how a deliberate commitment to using a research-based framework of teaching effectiveness, – one that reflects the expectations of what it means to be effective in a local school context - can be combined with hiring practices, to yield better outcomes from the teacher screening and selection process.

Rhonda Oliver discusses A Second Language Task-Based Needs Analysis for Australian Aboriginal Learners

DNA methylation changes in human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV16) DNA are common and might be important for identifying women at increased risk of cervical cancer. Atilla Lorincz discusses recently published data from Costa Rica and a classification score to differentiate women with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 2 or 3

Barbara Pamphilon examines the lessons learned from a project that facilitated village-level community education workshops that sought to bring male and female heads of families together in a culturally appropriate way in order to encourage more gender equitable planning and farming practices.

Faye McCallum discusses the central role and responsibility of education in ensuring the wellbeing of children and young people.

Catherine Doherty discusses the double meaning of ‘good’ in English. ‘Good’ can refer to the morally correct choice, and it can also refer to high quality. The question then becomes whether these types of ‘good-ness’ refer to the same thing in teacher education.

Lisa Magnani analyses the role of Social Finance as an example of financial innovation and provides an insight into the underlying inequality of power between Labour and Finance.

Peter Walton considers the reasons for the ‘success’ or ‘failure’ of company voluntary arrangements (“CVAs”) and to investigate the outcomes where CVAs fail. The frequency of CVAs is reasonably low when compared with alternative corporate Insolvency Act 1986 procedures1 and it has been commented that CVAs have a high failure rate. The research project aims to identify ‘successful’ and ‘failed’ CVA...

Chris Davison discusses the innovative assessment developments in their educational environments and some of the conceptual and practical issues of the different approaches to using assessment to promote learning. 

Research has demonstrated the prevalence of men’s victimisation of intimate partner violence, and more recently there has been qualitative work to highlight the severity and impact of their experiences. Little research has explored how the abuse continues or changes once the couple have separated.

Using a collection of settler family letters to the Elementary Correspondence School (ECS) in British Columbia, the first provincial government–supported “schooling by mail” arrangement of its kind in Canada, Mona Gleason discusses the efforts of rural families to secure an education for their children in the period between the First and Second World Wars.

Rachel Lofthouse discusses the significance of specialist expertise in coaching headteachers. Amongst the research findings were strong indicators of the value placed by the headteachers on the expertise, independence and quality of the coaching provision

The practice of managerial coaching is increasing globally, although there is still comparatively little research into it. Grace McCarthy discusses the motivation of managers and offers recommendations for those seeking to foster managerial coaching in their organisations. Grace McCarthy is the Dean of Sydney Business School at the University of Wollongong

Jim Watterston discusses young people across Australia of compulsory school age who, for multiple reasons, are not participating in a school or an education program of any type.

Steve Jordan discusses how forms of action and participatory research can be used to enhance the learning of adults in Canada.

The notion of insurrection has been increasingly deployed as a way of describing recent uprisings around the world – from Tahrir Square to Occupy Wall Street, from the ‘movement of the squares’ in Madrid and Athens to Gezi Park in Istanbul. Saul Newman discusses a theoretical understanding of the insurrection as a central concept in radical politics in order to account for contemporary movements a...

Craig Deed discusses the need forstudent-oriented teaching and learning environments and theemergence of built informal learning environments oncampus.