Justine Greening, Secretary of State for Education, today confirmed the 11 new Research Schools in to support social mobility ‘coldspots’. The announcement doubles the size of the Research Schools Network. […]

The IEE and EEF have today announced six new Research Schools. The Schools in Southport, Suffolk, London, County Durham, Hertfordshire and West Sussex join a growing network of Research Schools across the country […]

We are now accepting applications for the second round of innovation evaluation grants from schools that are involved with the Research Schools Network. […]

We are now looking for an additional 12 Research Schools to support the 12 opportunity areas from September 2017. […]

The IEE is pleased to announce four projects chosen to receive the first Research Schools Network Innovation Evaluation Grants. […]

In Schools Week today, there is an interesting article that revealed how the Department for Education are recruiting a team of “behavioural insights” experts. So why are they chomping at the BIT (in this case, the Behavioural Insights Team) and why is this useful knowledge for schools? In the Schools Week article, journalist Billy Camden […]

If you look near the top of the graph that distills the EEF Toolkit, you will find that metacognition sits proudly high amongst the approaches that have the most positive impact on learning […]

Schools across the land strive to have good relations with the parents of their students. We all know that the triumvirate of teachers, students and parents all working together in collaboration proves best for students. Still, it is really, really hard. Research evidence has, however, given us some useful indicators on how to best foster […]

We are now accepting applications for grants for innovation evaluation projects from schools that are involved with the Research Schools Network. […]

As a father of two young children, I have learned a great deal about the motivation of youngsters to supplement my understanding as a classroom teacher. Trying to cultivate a habitual love of reading, writing, guitar practice – whilst fending off the lure of inane children’s television in the process – is damn hard going. […]