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Sawhney, Indermeet; Zia, Asif; Gates, Bob – British Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2017
In the UK, the Mental Health Tribunal is a long-established safeguard for patients detained under the Mental Health Act. This gives such patients an effective appeal mechanism to ensure legal protection of their liberty. This act contains sections that allow for civil detention in the case of mental disorder. The right to apply to the tribunal…
Descriptors: Patients, Learning Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Mental Health
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Palmer, Amy – Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 2017
Joseph King (1860-1943), known as the "Mad Hatter" because of his appearance and eccentric manner, was a man who cared very much about education in a wide range of arenas. He was a founder of Mansfield House University Settlement in London and of the peasant arts movement, both philanthropic organisations which aimed to improve the lot…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Personality, Politics of Education
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Redley, Marcus; Lancaster, Isabella; Pitt, Adam; Holland, Anthony; Thompson, Angela; Bradley, John R.; Glover, Gyles; Thomson, Karen; Jones, Sara; Herbert, Bernadette; Holme, Anita; Clare, Isabel C. H. – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2019
Objectives: To understand the views of qualified medical practitioners regarding "reasonable adjustments" and the quality of the care and treatment provided to adults with intellectual disabilities when admitted to acute hospitals as inpatients. Methods: Semi-structured interviews took place with 14 medical practitioners, seven from each…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Federal Legislation, Intellectual Disability, Patients
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Leydesdorff, Loet; Etzkowitz, Henry; Kushnir, Duncan – Industry and Higher Education, 2016
Following a pause, with a relatively flat rate, from 1998 to 2008, the long-term trend of university patenting rising as a share of all patenting has resumed, driven by the internationalization of academic entrepreneurship and the persistence of US university technology transfer. The authors disaggregate this recent growth in university patenting…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Universities, Intellectual Property, Technology Transfer
Beech, Diana – Higher Education Policy Institute, 2018
At the start of 2018, the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) was approached by the parliamentary Joint Committee for Human Rights (JCHR) to conduct an independent piece of research into the efficacy of university codes of practice on freedom of speech. The research formed part of the evidence base for the JCHR's 2017/18 inquiry into whether…
Descriptors: Moral Values, Freedom of Speech, Universities, Foreign Countries
Skipp, Amy; Tyers, Claire; Hopwood, Vicky; Rutt, Simon; Sharp, Caroline; Webster, Rob – National Foundation for Educational Research, 2021
In the United Kingdom, the Coronavirus Act relaxed the duty on Local Authorities to provide all of the support set out in pupils' educational, health and care plans (EHCPs). They were expected to use 'reasonable endeavours' to deliver as much of this as possible. This relaxation was lifted in September 2020, meaning that from that point the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Special Schools, Colleges, Federal Legislation
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Hall, Valerie J. – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2020
Removal of the student numbers cap, reductions in funding and an accompanying need to generate revenue have driven education towards neo-capitalism and managerialism: students equate to income. An associated growth in performativity measures incorporates student voice as one of these benchmarking requirements. Aiming to explore and challenge…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Postsecondary Education, Teacher Education Programs, Teacher Educators
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Rieser, Richard – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2016
Thirty years ago teachers in the NUT and NASUWT were involved in a protracted industrial dispute. The outcome of the dispute had huge implications for education policy in the years that followed (most obviously the introduction of the 1987 Education Bill), and has important lessons for teacher unionism today. The author offers a personal…
Descriptors: Educational History, Educational Policy, Unions, Social Action
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Ali, Roaa – Research in Drama Education, 2018
In view of the recent Arts Council 'Creative Case for Diversity', and considering the challenging socio-political climate of contemporary Britain, this article explores Muslim cultural participation, and the obstacles towards its visibility. The role of the British Muslim artist is crucial in addressing current radicalising and Islamophobic…
Descriptors: Censorship, Muslims, Cultural Pluralism, Role
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Nikolou-Walker, Elda – Work Based Learning e-Journal International, 2020
This article considers the extent to which the legal framework of Higher Education in the UK (2000- 2010) responded to the needs of the professional work-based student, while in both employment and study. Drawing on Case Law, Education Law and the body of literature on Work-Based Learning (WBL) it discusses the context of the professional student…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Legislation, Higher Education, Professional Education
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Vaill, Zoe; Campbell, Marilyn; Whiteford, Chrystal – Policy Reviews in Higher Education, 2021
Policy is an important part of prevention and intervention when it comes to peer bullying amongst university students. Therefore, the contents of these policies need to be informative and easy to find, understand and use. With the United Kingdom having a low prevalence of peer bullying at university when compared to other countries, determining…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Bullying, School Policy, Universities
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Morrice, Linda – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2017
Debates about integration, British values and identity, who can belong and who can become a citizen, have been fuelled by concerns about growing cultural diversity in the United Kingdom. To promote a shared sense of national identity and claim a universal and normative citizen subject, the UK government, along with many other western nations, has…
Descriptors: Citizenship, Gender Differences, Tests, Language Tests
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Bastalich, Wendy – Studies in Higher Education, 2017
With the massification of higher degrees, the efficiency gaze has fixed on students and supervisors, or on their relationship, as the "problem" to be managed, in need of administrative regulation, skill improvement or perhaps emotional management. This critical review of a selection of higher education journal articles on doctoral…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Doctoral Dissertations, Supervision, Scholarship
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Law, C. Eleanor; Woods, Kevin – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2018
Behavioural difficulties, whether externalising or internalising, concern educational policy makers, practitioners and educational psychologists (EPs). The present configurative systematic literature review (SLR) aims to explore EPs' representations of their behaviour management practices and application of psychology within behaviour work, in…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Educational Policy, Educational Psychology, Databases
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Lindsay, Victoria; Antoniou, Christos – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2016
We take a multidisciplinary approach mapping the models used by UK higher education (HE) institutions against established international business foreign market entry strategies. We review the conditions in host markets that facilitate market entry and consider how these will determine foreign market entry strategy. We specifically consider four…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Global Approach, Interdisciplinary Approach
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