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Rachel Lofthouse discusses how to create powerful professional learning through coaching, mentoring and collaborative leadership in education

In New South Wales, and Australia more broadly, we are on the precipice of a massive transformation of schooling and the assumptions around the education of children. This transformation is focussed on equity and the personalisation of the schooling process. These engaging learning centres will allow students to take ownership for their own education, have autonomy and agency, and where passion is...

David Smith explores the development of a new hybrid learning framework designed to assist lecturers in the planning and teaching of their subjects, and in engaging students with the course material online.

Kellie Bousfield discusses how the education system feeds into the “choice” parents make. In Australia, and elsewhere, the system doesn’t favour academic merit, but parental wealth and instead of meritocracy, we see a parentocracy – the actions and wealth of parents act as key determinants of a child’s academic success.

Diversity in Teacher Education

Frederik Anseel discusses the impact of leaders' motivational strivings on employee burnout.

Catherine Carden discusses whether teacher sare incorrect to expect to establish a 'perfect' balance between their work and personal life.

A private entrepreneur and his art museum: how MONA took Tasmania to the world

What do we mean by ‘twentieth-century music’? And how are we to square this with the musics of a twenty-first century that is now nearing the end of its second decade? Roger Redgate graduated at the Royal College of Music, where he won prizes for composition, violin performance, harmony and counterpoint, studying composition with Edwin Roxburgh and electronic music with Lawrence Casserley. A DAAD...

'Post-truth’ was Oxford Dictionaries 2016 word of the year. While the term was coined by its disparagers in the light of the Brexit and US presidential campaigns, the roots of post-truth lie deep in the history of Western social and political theory.

Monica Biagioli discusses The Case for Informal Spaces in the Workplace

Since the 2007–09 crisis, tougher bank liquidity regulation has been imposed which aims to ensure banks can survive a severe funding stress. Critics of this regulation suggest that it raises the cost of maturity transformation and reduces productive lending. Rhiannon Sowerbutts discusses a bank run model with a unique equilibrium where solvent banks can fail due to illiquidity.

Paul Reville is the Francis Keppel professor of practice of policy and administration at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he also leads the Education Redesign Lab, an initiative designed to re-envision 21st-century education. He is a former Massachusetts secretary of education.

Theresa A. Thorkildsen describes how researchers use intentional frameworks to explain the process of motivation and extend that logic to questions of moral motivation.

Lawrence Summers is the former Vice President of Development Economics and Chief Economist of the World Bank, senior U.S. Treasury Department and former director of the National Economic Council. He is a former president of Harvard University and currently director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government

Noam Chomsky, world renowned dissident intellectual, discusses Western power and propaganda with filmmaker and investigative journalist Andre Vltchek. The discussion weaves together a historical narrative with the two men’s personal experiences which led them to a life of activism. The discussion includes personal memories, such as the New York newsstand where Chomsky began his political education...

At Home in the Law: How the Domestic Violence Revolution Is Transforming Privacy. Jeannie Suk Gersen is the John H. Watson, Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where she has taught criminal law and procedure, family law, and the law of art, fashion, and the performing arts. Before joining the faculty in 2006, she served as a law clerk to Justice David Souter on the United States Supreme Co...

Andrew Bick received an MA in painting from the Chelsea School of Art (1988) and has since shown extensively in Europe and the U.S. Bick lives and works in London. Andrew Bick is a Senior Lecturer at Kingston University and Reader in Fine Art at the University of Gloucestershire teaching BA, MA and supervising seven PhDs. Here Bick discusses the use of Concrete Art in his unique pictorial composit...

Corporate investment is known to respond strongly to cyclical swings in firms’ collateral values. This collateral channel is a key source of business cycle amplification. Saleem Bahaj discusses how lending relationships insulate corporate investment from fluctuations in collateral values.

China’s long-term experience showcases the two fundamentals in growth and development: efficiency and equality. Kent Deng discusses China’s long history, one that places importance on distributing incomes as much as producing them.

Nigel Rolfe is recognised as a seminal figure in performance art, in its history and among current world practitioners. He has lectured at the Royal College of Art since 1982. He is a senior visiting critic to postgraduate courses in the US and Europe. He was visiting professor in Sculpture at Yale University and visiting professor in Fine Art at the RCA. He is elected to Aosdana in Ireland. Born...

Copyright is inherently intertwined with the development of technology and none more so than the advent of the Internet and sharing technologies. Social media platforms have become the latest challenge for copyright law and policy. Hayleigh Bosher builds on the literature that recognises the underlying conflict between copyright and social networking sites (SNSs); namely that the basic implication...

The rise of new independent Indian cinema is a widely acknowledged yet unfathomably understudied phenomenon. Ashvin Devasundaram discusses India’s New Independent Cinema, the first academic analysis on the topic, designed to serve as a bellwether for future research in this area.

Kate Fletcher discusses how lifecycle sustainability impacts of fashion and textiles, practical alternatives, design concepts and social innovation. She challenges existing ideas about the scope and potential of sustainability issues in fashion and textiles, and sets out a more pluralistic, engaging and forward-looking picture, drawing on ideas of systems thinking, human needs, local products, slo...

Part of our Bank of England Partnership: In the intermediation of loanable funds model of banking, banks accept deposits of pre-existing real resources from savers and then lend them to borrowers. In the real world, banks provide financing through money creation. That is they create deposits of new money through lending, and in doing so are mainly constrained by profitability and solvency consider...