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What if… we really wanted to overcome the academic-vocational divide? 08.12.2017 1:15:43

IOE Public Debates: It’s time to address the latest issues surrounding the stubborn academic-vocational divide. Speakers include: - Mary Curnock Cook is the former Chief Executive of UCAS - Tony Little is the Chief Academic Officer at GEMS - Sir Michael Wilshaw is the former Chief Inspector of Schools In England and Head of Ofsted - Alison Fuller is Professor of Vocational Education and Work and P...

Higher education as self-formation 08.12.2017 58:01

IOE Public Lectures: Prof Simon Marginson draws on and integrates a range of social science disciplines in his work, primarily political economy and political philosophy, historical sociology and social theory. His work focuses on globalisation and higher education, international and comparative higher education, and higher education and social inequality. He is currently researching the implicati...

The problem of education and development in sub-Saharan Africa 15.11.2017 1:11:59

IOE Public Lectures: African governments and donor partners have long regarded investment in education as being central to economic growth in the region – but this investment is yet to achieve rapid economic improvement. Why is that? And what should be done to better realise that goal? In this lecture, Professor Oketch addresses the compelling narrative of human capital theory – the doctrine, unde...

What if… we really wanted to further social mobility through education? 02.11.2017 1:22:29

IOE Public Debates: On 31st October we held the first in our ‘What if…’ events series, which challenges thought leaders to bring some fresh and radical thinking to key debates in education. We kicked off with the issue of education’s role in relation to social mobility, asking the panel ‘What if… we really wanted to further social mobility through education?’. Speakers included: Kate Pickett, Prof...

If you run on your own you run fast, but if you run with a team you run far 28.09.2017 1:03:10

Maggie MacDonnell is the winner of the Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize 2017. She won from a field of over 20,000 applications from teachers in almost every country in the world. In this lecture she reflects on the challenges, opportunities and experiences of teaching in the Canadian Arctic. For the last six years Maggie has been a teacher in a fly-in Inuit village called Salluit, home to th...