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News in 2008
| Learning Lives Video |
| The Learning Lives project has produced a video about their work which aired on TV and showed to Scottish TUC conference delegates... |
| New commentary goes on tour |
| The new TLRP Further Education commentary was launched via a series of workshops at QIA/CEL summer conferences... |
| New TEL projects |
| Five new Technology Enhanced Learning Projects were welcomed into TLRP-TEL at a conference at Warwick University on June 19-20th... |
| TLRP contributes to Swiss review |
| Andrew Pollard provided a keynote at the June 24th conference convened by the Swiss Society for Research in Education in Freiburg... |
| THE TLRP article |
| Widening Participation findings highlighted in Times Higher Education... |
| WP in HE Impact Event |
| June 17th saw TLRP Widening Participation in Higher Education projects present their findings to an invited audience of policy makers... |
| Quantitative Analysis seminar |
| Monday 9 June saw the Quantitative Analysis project team discuss their findings with academics, policy makers and WP experts... |
| TLRP Teacher Textbook |
| Andrew Pollard's resources supporting teacher professionalism in ITT and CPD have been relaunched to incorporate outcomes from TLRP... |
| Welsh Education Research Network |
| Almost 90 researchers from 11 Welsh Higher Education institutions met on 6th May to share and celebrate the first outcomes of their new collaboration through WERN... |
| TLRP in Hong Kong |
| TLRP researchers travelled to East Asia for an International Symposium on ‘Teaching, Learning and Assessment’ hosted by the Hong Kong Institute of Education from 22-24th April... |
| New York New York |
| The American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting
took place in New York from 24-28 March and TLRP was well represented... |
| Minister to address TLRP |
| The Rt Hon John Denham MP, Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills is to address a TLRP WP in HE event in May... |
| TLRP NI Delight |
| TLRP met the policy makers in Belfast on 10th April to disseminate findings from the four Northern Ireland based projects and give an overview of the Programme in general... |
| Oslo Conference |
| On 8th April 2008, TLRP's Mary James was in Oslo attending the final conference of the KUL (Knowledge, Education and Learning) Programme that was supported by the Norwegian Research Council from 2003 to 2008... |
| Pollard meets TDA |
| TLRP Director Andrew Pollard presented to a Teacher Development Agency (TDA) lunchtime seminar on 7th April in London... |
| New Special Issue |
| The Cambridge Journal of Education special TLRP issue on Knowledge Transformation and Impact is now available... |
| CSF Curriculum Committee |
| 2nd April saw TLRP's Professor Mary James attend a House of Commons Committee discussing the Inquiry into the National Curriculum... |
| WP in HE meeting |
| Representatives of TLRP's seven Widening Participation in Higher Education projects met in London on 14th March... |
| Degrees of Success seminar |
| The Degrees of Success project led by Dr Geoff Hayward at the University of Oxford held a dissemination and user engagement seminar on 17th March... |
| Gender Agenda |
| The DCSF will be running a series of seminars in summer to introduce the new Gender Agenda to the research community... |
| Miriam David international visit |
| TLRP Associate Director for Higher Education (HE) Miriam David has just returned from a busy research visit to Latin America... |
| Music Event of Note |
| The Learning to Perform project will be holding an evening of music and reflection on 14th March as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science... |
| Laurillard Lectures on Technology |
| 26th February saw former TLRP e-team member Diana Laurillard give her Professorial Lecture at the Institute of Education, University of London... |
| MiGen meets Bright Sparks |
| TLRP's MiGen project led by TEL Associate Director Richard Noss took part in the Brighton Science Festival on 23rd February... |
| Rise of the Fragile Learner |
| At her professorial lecture at Oxford Brookes University Professor Kathryn Ecclestone, former TLRP Associate Director, argued that assessing emotional well-being undermines education... |
| TLRP Controversy? |
| TLRP was discussed on 15th February at a high level ESRC workshop drawing upon government departments, UK devolved administrations, learned societies and the ESRC council... |
| Nearer to BERA |
| The Executive Council of the British Educational Research Association (BERA), meeting in Edinburgh on 7th February, endorsed strong collaboration with TLRP as part of the Programme's legacy work and BERA's future development plan... |
| Interactive Teaching Conference |
| 4th February saw the ICT and Interactive Teaching project led by Steve Kennewell at Swansea Metropolitan University present findings to an audience of researchers, teachers and policy makers... |
| Meet the Professionals |
| Joanna Penty reports on Harry Daniels' visit to Berkshire Adolescent Unit to discuss his interagency work findings... |
| Becta Research Grants |
| The British Educational Communications and Technology Agency's (Becta) ICT funding opportunities for 2008 to 2011 are available on their website... |
| Widening Participation Oxford seminars |
| A seminar series entitled 'Research in Access, Participation and Success in Higher Education' has been convened by Dr Hubert Ertl of Oxford University... |
| What makes a good teacher? |
| 24th January saw Mary James present the TLRP 10 principles to a House of Commons seminar at the invitation of the Cambridge Assessment agency... |
| Wolf paper on leaving age |
| TLRP project leader Professor Alison Wolf has written a paper on government plans to raise the school leaving age to 18... |
| Literacies for Learning in FE video |
| We are pleased to announce that extracts of the Literacies for Learning in Further Education project's video are now available to view on the TLRP website... |
| Hong Kong UK Symposium |
| 22-24th April 2008 will see an International Colloqium take place hosted by the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the Hong Kong Institute of Education... |
| New NCRM nodes |
| The ESRC National Centre for Research Methods have announced a second round of nodes to be funded from April 2008... |
| Survey deadline Friday |
| Please note that the last opportunity for researchers to share their ideas and experiences with the Mapping the Ripples project will be Friday 18th January... |
| View Schools DVD online |
| The 'Teaching and Learning, Principles into Practice' documentary that accompanied last term's major TLRP mailout to UK schools is available to view online on the TLRP website... |
| Sad start to New Year |
| Regrettably, the New Year has brought news of the death of Janet Mills, the Principal Investigator of TLRP's project: 'Learning to Perform: Instrumentalists and Instrumental Teachers'... |
