Excited that this is now available in paperback - just in time for Christmas! ;-) blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

Excited to see this out in the world! Fraser-Pearce, J., Stones, A. (2025). Developing the Epistemic Literacy of Learners in Religious Education. In: Ubani, M. (eds) Religion, Learning, Literacy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. doi.org/10.1007/978-...

Landmark news: it's been recommended that reformed, inclusive Religious Education be added to the National Curriculum in England – with a full expert review of its content to follow. humanists.uk/2025/11/05/s...

I just remembered that I had a dream last night, in which I was agonising over what would be an appropriate alternative name for ‘Religious Education’. I need to get out more! Roll on the Pop Will Eat Itself gig on Saturday!

Today might be a pretty good day for RE. It’s great to see a review that makes sense, and seems genuinely concerned with children and young people, who should be at the heart of any such work (but too often are not). assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6908f7...

Teacher Alchemy: Enhancing Understanding Through AI What if the real promise of AI in education isn’t automation, prediction, or efficiency, but a richer understanding of how students think, argue, and develop ideas? In a new open-access article co-authored with Mutlu Cukurova, I explore the…

This report produced by IOE colleagues is insightful and reminds of how much work we must continue to do in this area. discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

I read this article earlier in the week. I recommend it! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This is not a neutral topic… But it is one that ... demands that we reckon with how our silences function, who they serve, and who they leave behind.

'When we centre care experienced voices in policy, in pedagogy, and in professional learning, we begin to close the awarding gap, the one that limits how we (and sometimes they) see their potential.'

'Compassion enables us to ask different questions: “What can we change?” AND “How will this change be experienced?” or “How do we become more efficient?” AND “How do we remain human while doing so?”'

@profkeonwest.bsky.social I’ve just finished listening to ‘The Science of Racism’. Thank you!

"Female graduates are far more likely than their male peers to enter low-paying industries.” The saddest thing about this is that the “low-paying industries” referred to are health, social work and education!

"Rather than asking students to become more resilient, the more important question is how institutions can reduce the need for resilience in the first place."

"The report notes that other groups of students also experienced exclusion. These included women, LGBTQ+ students, and students with a disability – although only disability came close to the magnitude of effects explained by social class and region."

"if we don’t keep working creatively to address the disruption to education posed by AI – if we just wait and see how it plays out – it will be too late" wonkhe.com/blogs/what-s...

"A Palestinian scholar has been offered the chance to undertake a PhD at the Uni of Edinburgh… The opportunity could be taken away over refusal by the Home Office to issue a visa until she submits biometric data. The biometrics registration centre in Gaza [is] closed." news.stv.tv/east-central...

"sustained outreach makes a measurable difference to student progression into higher education (HE)—especially for those from disadvantaged backgrounds" heat.ac.uk/research-evi...

“This is not hypothetical; some of these students have already been killed while waiting and others remain in constant danger." www.theguardian.com/education/20...

"schools and higher education institutions are a key site where trans and non-binary people’s safety needs to be considered"

This is a nice story :-)

Delighted and appreciative to be on this list, as Professor of Education and Religion. 🤩 And very grateful to colleagues near and far who have contributed to and supported this. You know who you are! 😘 www.ucl.ac.uk/human-resour...

Bob Vylan and the OfS free speech guidance wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...

"We won’t be equipping the next generation to get the most out of the new thinking machines if we aren’t teaching them how to think for themselves first." www.ft.com/content/1369...

“I have a 10-year-old daughter and I don’t want to live in a country which cares more about Teslas being vandalised than kids being shot in schools.” www.ft.com/content/541b...

Students are a bit more woke than non-students. Chicken? Egg? wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...

Eid Mubarak to everyone in our community who is celebrating! #EidAlFitr #EidMubarak

In the USA, universities are under attack on multiple fronts wonkhe.com/blogs/in-the...

I’m looking forward to this tomorrow! Should be a good discussion. :-) www.aku.edu/iedpk/events...

The paper, published earlier this week with @geowalshe.bsky.social & @bjjohnston.bsky.social explores #CCSE & a #justice oriented #curriculum. Empirical work in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 which we argue has relevance for all contexts exploring Curriculum Reform. bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Papers are sometimes like buses….you wait patiently& then two come along! 🚌 Delighted to share this with @geowalshe.bsky.social exploring curriculum making and #climate #change & #sustainability in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 - given policy maker focus across the UK inc🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 this is timely. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

What place is there for justice-focused #climate and #sustainability education? SEEd Member @rushtondr.bsky.social and her colleagues explored this in their latest research, summarised in their new blog on our website. See what they uncovered at se-ed.org.uk/justice-clim.... #edusky #blog #nature

"The public still largely believes in higher education’s value – but that that value needs to be more fairly distributed." Has Scottish public opinion really turned against free education? wonkhe.com/wonk-corner/...

“I believe access to higher and further education should be based on the ability to learn, not the ability to pay.” John Swinney. www.thenational.scot/news/2503215...

This new track from Kae Tempest is genius! "They never wanted people like me round here But when I'm dead They'll put my statue in the square" open.spotify.com/album/6h6UEE...

‘When you’ve got nothing in your belly, you can’t concentrate’: teachers on the food banks they run in schools theconversation.com/when-youve-g...

"In yr 9 mths, 21% of boys & 9% of girls reported they were v confident, while 38% of boys & 60% of girls reported they were not confident." "In yr 9 sci, pupils in households w/ fewer than 10 books scored 461, compared w/ 601 for those w/ over 200 books @ home." www.theguardian.com/education/20...

"Restoring individual university student number caps but allowing each university to admit widening participation students without a cap would manage enrolment more fairly." blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

🌐Mass Data Surveillance and Predictive Policing. IIPP Professor @ceciliarikap.bsky.social welcomes guest speakers @plixavra.bsky.social & @mattcole.bsky.social for the latest #IIPPInConversation on Mass Data Surveillance & Predictive Policing. 🔗Learn more & register here: buff.ly/M50J3EW

Last week, pupils from 10 schools across Yorkshire took part in hands-on activities at the University to mark International Women’s Day 👩‍🔬 The event, which celebrated gender diversity in engineering, showcased achievements in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) 🔬