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CPRT thematic research reviews: search for new authors

Cambridge Primary Review Trust (CPRT) is commissioning seven new thematic research reviews to supplement the five published in 2014-15 (three now available, two due shortly) and the 28 published between 2007 and 2009 by the Cambridge Primary Review. The Reviews will identify and discuss key strands of evidence relevant to the chosen themes from academic research, inspection and official sources, assessing evidential significance and proposing implications for policy and/or practice in primary education. The themes are:

1. Demographic change, migration and cultural diversity

2. Vulnerable children

3. Education for sustainability and global understanding

4. Recent changes in structures, funding and governance in English primary education

5. Recent changes in primary teacher education and training

6. The continuing digital revolution: impact and implications

7. Autonomy, accountability and quality assurance: lessons from other countries.

Deadline for initial expressions of interest: Friday 24 April 2015. The seven research reviews/reports will be commissioned during May with a view to being published between late 2015 and early 2016. Click here for further information.

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Election 2015: Statement from NAPE

The National Association for Primary Education (NAPE) has published a short but powerful list of concerns and priorities for parties contesting the 2015 general election. We commend it to all CPRT members and affiliates.

Read the NAPE statement here.

 

 

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Did you watch it? Britain’s biggest primary school

If you didn’t watch last night’s opening episode in the new C5 four-part series about Gascoigne Primary School, Barking, catch up via the repeats.  If any grandstanding politician still believes that all that a teacher needs is subject knowledge, then this should sort them out. The human and logistical challenges confronted and resolved by Bob Garton and his colleagues would fell lesser mortals, and the responsive and articulate children in last night’s episode really did them proud. Compulsive viewing.

Gascoigne Primary School, as it happens, is participating in the Cambridge Primary Review Trust/York University/Educational Endowment Foundation project on dialogic teaching and social disadvantage.

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Anna Craft memorial lecture

The first annual Anna Craft Memorial Lecture will beheld at the Open University, Camden on Thursday 5th March 2015. Anna was one of CPRT’s founding directors.

The lecture will be delivered by Prof. Sir Ken Robinson and is entitled Educating for Creativity: from what it is to what it might be.

The lecture is sponsored by the Open University and will begin at 5pm, followed by questions and a wine reception.

Places are limited so do register if you wish to attend.

Contact

Cambridge Primary Review Trust - Email: administrator@cprtrust.org.uk