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Direct linkBlackburn, Carolyn; Whitehurst, Teresa – British Journal of Special Education, 2010
In this article Carolyn Blackburn who is currently project officer for the Training and Development Agency for Schools and Teresa Whitehurst who is a research and development officer at Sunfield School in Worcestershire discuss how educationalists are being required to support an increasing number of children with new and emerging disabilities…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Alcoholism, Physical Disabilities, Hyperactivity
Academic Underachievement and Exclusion of People Who Have Been Looked after in Local Authority Care
Mallon, James – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2005
Although higher education for 50% of all school leavers by 2010 is the stated aim of the United Kingdom government, it is clear that initiatives aimed at widening access do not reach those most in need. This is nowhere more true than in the case of people who have spent all or part of their childhood in the care of local authorities, and who…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Underachievement, At Risk Students, Foreign Countries
