January 15, 2017 at 12:09AMAre you a student? Based in the Midlands? In possession of such a crippling compulsion to be correct that you’re willing to devote several years of your life to it?Great news, because Birmingham City...

January 14, 2017 at 11:59PM The Christmas edition of the Economist contained an article called ‘Animal Factory: the evolution of a scientific meaning’.  It was about the difficulties of conducting experiments on laboratory...

January 14, 2017 at 08:51PMIn a book published in 2000, the Polish-born sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, who has died aged 91, deployed a metaphor since taken up by the anti-globalisation movement around the world. Liquid Modernity...

January 14, 2017 at 08:09PM Guest post by Krista Taylor. An earlier version of the post originally appeared on Angels and Superheroes. Teacher professional development has a reputation for being notoriously poor.So often it’s a...

January 14, 2017 at 07:09PMI’ve been reconsidering good ways to begin lessons and share objectives.  Looking beyond writing objectives on the board (and perhaps copying them into books), Rob Phillips (2001) suggests...