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26 Feb 2015: Headteachers and leadership teams are expected to carry the responsibility for, and be accountable for, improvement in their schools, measured primarily by ‘outcomes’ in the form of pupils’ scores on exams. ... and Ghana’s own national cultural

2 Mar 2015: Challenges faced by school leaders. Aspects of the colonial legacy contribute to the array of challenges faced by school leaders, challenges that are economic and cultural. ... Conclusion. Ghana is a country characterised by a diverse and inequitable

1 Apr 2015: My research focuses the role of schools, and in particular secondary mathematics education, in reinforcing or challenging socio-economic, ethnic, and gender inequalities in New Zealand.

1 Apr 2015: He has appeared on BBC News24, BBC Radio 4 and Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and his work has been profiled in BusinessWeek, BBC World Service, The Economic Times, The Economist, The Financial Times,

1 Apr 2015: Engagement in a field is both competitive and strategic, with agents using a range of strategies to accumulate social, economic, cultural or symbolic capital. ... The class fractions vary because of the amount of economic capital and symbolic capital

9 Feb 2015: series organised by a planning committee that includes colleagues from Education International (the global federation of teacher organisations), the Organisation for Economic Co-‐operation and Development’s Centre for Educational Research

13 Aug 2015: Thanks to funding from the Economic and Social Research Council, we have been able to invest in new tools and resources to support these connections. ... LfL Travels, a project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, has highlighted just how

26 Feb 2015: which were used to print end of term exam questions and answer booklets. ... Hitherto, exams. questions were written on the chalkboard. Parents also pay a levy for internet connectivity.

26 Feb 2015: teach. The buildings, the classrooms, the furniture, the teaching materials, the tests and exams are all put in place to provide a home for children’s learning – a place we call

26 Feb 2015: high stakes nature of exams, leaving little or no. ... Assessment and self evaluation Pressures of assessment and exams were further inhibitions on creating a learning culture given teachers’ preoccupation with end-of-term testing.