Outputs (132)

Lessons for addressing educational disadvantage from a range of studies (2023)
Journal Article
Gorard, S., Siddiqui, N., & See, B. H. (2023). Lessons for addressing educational disadvantage from a range of studies. Cogent Education, 10(2), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/2331186X.2023.2262258

Governments and education systems worldwide have tried using additional cash transfers to encourage school enrolment and attendance, and to reduce the attainment gap between disadvantaged students and their peers. There are now many strands of eviden... Read More about Lessons for addressing educational disadvantage from a range of studies.

The disproportionality of ethnic minority teachers in England: trends, patterns, and problems (2023)
Journal Article

Background: England has an ethnically diverse population; reflected in the teacher workforce, and the student body in schools. However, it is not clear that these figures are in proportion to each other. This paper examines the ethnic profile of stud... Read More about The disproportionality of ethnic minority teachers in England: trends, patterns, and problems.

Does school matter for early childhood education? Assessing cognitive and wider development of children in the Province of Punjab, Pakistan and State of Gujarat, India (2022)
Report
Siddiqui, N., Gorard, S., Bulsari, S., Saeed, S., Sarfaraz, H., See, B. H., …Pandya, K. (2022). Does school matter for early childhood education? Assessing cognitive and wider development of children in the Province of Punjab, Pakistan and State of Gujarat, India. Durham University Evidence Centre for Education

School is a long-term intervention in children’s lives. Children spend many hours in school where the expectation is that the activities will boost their natural growth and academic potential in the most receptive years of development. However, learn... Read More about Does school matter for early childhood education? Assessing cognitive and wider development of children in the Province of Punjab, Pakistan and State of Gujarat, India.

Who becomes a teacher and why? (2022)
Journal Article

This paper reports on a comprehensive review of international evidence, synthesising the findings of some of the strongest empirical work on the main factors influencing people's decisions to be teachers or not. Four search engines, including Google... Read More about Who becomes a teacher and why?.

How to get more people into teaching?: Comparing undergraduates’ and teacher trainees’ motivation and perceptions of a teaching career (2022)
Journal Article

Understanding people’s perceptions of teaching as an occupation, and their motivation or oth-erwise to teach, can help identify which initiatives/policies are most promising in improving teacher recruitment. Previous studies have often sought only th... Read More about How to get more people into teaching?: Comparing undergraduates’ and teacher trainees’ motivation and perceptions of a teaching career.

Making schools better for disadvantaged students (2022)
Book

Tackling teacher shortages: doing the right thing at the right time and with the right evidence (2022)
Book Chapter
See, B. H., Gorard, S., & Morris, R. (2023). Tackling teacher shortages: doing the right thing at the right time and with the right evidence. In R. Tierney, F. Rizvi, & K. Erkican (Eds.), International Encyclopedia of Education (Fourth Edition) (655-670). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-818630-5.04084-7

Teacher shortages are influenced by a complicated interaction of factors. Most prior research does not consider such complexities, resulting in misleading interpretations of the problem and ineffective solutions. Findings from our multi-pronged resea... Read More about Tackling teacher shortages: doing the right thing at the right time and with the right evidence.

Ethnic disproportionality in the school teaching workforce in England (2022)
Journal Article

The disproportionality in the school workforce in England’s schools has drawn little interest from policymakers and education practitioners. This article addresses the noted gap in the literature and provides trends empirical evidence in England’s te... Read More about Ethnic disproportionality in the school teaching workforce in England.

How do Chinese students’ critical thinking compare with other students?: a structured review of the existing evidence (2022)
Journal Article

An increasing number of Chinese students are now studying abroad in western universities, and there is a widespread concern among western academics that Chinese students are not trained to have a critical mind. However, there is little empirical evid... Read More about How do Chinese students’ critical thinking compare with other students?: a structured review of the existing evidence.

Recruiting and retaining teachers in kindergarten and schools - a knowledge base (2022)
Report
Munthe, E., & See, B. (2022). Recruiting and retaining teachers in kindergarten and schools - a knowledge base. Knowledge Center for Education, University of Stavanger