The traditional unfriendly rivalry between English universities and colleges and the local education authorities has been changed in East Yorkshire. There, two colleges and two LEAs have developed a jointly owned, financed, and administered scheme for managing degree awards to teachers. Mutual discontent with inservice training prompted the…

Purpose: This paper aims to describe the context, process and findings of a qualitative review of Walsall Arts into Health Partnership, which is widely acknowledged to be one of the most progressive community-based arts and health programmes in the UK. Design/methodology/approach: The research adopted a multi-method qualitative approach to…

Claims are often made in British education about the extent to which policy reforms have been "borrowed" from overseas. Based on interviews with senior civil servants and HMI, this paper addresses the extent to which such claims apply to central government educational policy-making at school level in England between 1985 and 1995. This…

The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust (SSAT) is a leading national organisation for secondary education in England and is responsible for supporting the specialist schools and academies programmes. This edition of SSAT's corporate plan builds on its 2006-2007 to 2008-2009 plan, which sets out the framework within which it will continue to…

Immigrants, caught between two cultures, are in a marginal state which eventually resolves itself into acculturation. Because of the special needs, including reading needs, of the marginal man, libraries may help in the acculturation process. (LS)

The London Borough of Hackney libraries faced many pressures in a time of increased demands for services and diminished resources. Declines in circulation from the adult and children's sections were compensated for by increased activity in the reference, archives, hospital and housebound readers services, interlibrary loan, and music departments.…

The former Chief Inspector responsible for teacher education in Her Majesty's Inspectorate gives a personal view of how the English school system is moving to meet the challenges of the 1980s and 1990s. Current trends and their strengths are discussed. (Author/MT)

An important change taking place in British teacher education is the move toward developing a partnership with schools. Her Majesty's Inspectorate has proposed that teachers become more involved in planning courses and in selecting, teaching, supervising, and assessing students. Schools would also benefit from a partnership. Implications are…

This article describes a cooperative field trip program between the Didsbury School of Education and Ulverston Victoria High School. Responses from students, pupils, and teachers are noted. (MT)

This article describes a cooperative college/school program in which 18 prospective teachers lived and worked with a group of school children and their regular teachers during a week-long summer trip. The benefits of this program are described by the program advisor, a college official, and a program observer. (SJL)

Case-study phase of a national study into provision of services to children with speech and language needs. Finds extensive recognition of the need for collaboration between local education authorities (LEAs) and speech and language therapy (SLT) providers, but wide variation in practices across England and Wales. At the strategic level, various…

This article examines an in-service project undertaken by a British local education authority (LEA) in order to encourage a sense of shared responsibility for special needs by its secondary teachers, to foster the LEA's whole school approach. Issues arising from the in-service course and lessons learned from it are described. (JDD)

The Lambert Review of Business-University Collaboration proposed a business model for universities in 2003. Pressure to change university governance to make it match the business model remains strong, and it is being most actively applied to Oxford and Cambridge. The Oxford and Cambridge governance debates (which began in the 1990s) open up the…

The West Yorkshire (England) Sports Counselling Association (WYSC) is a voluntary organization that, in partnership with the Probation Service, provides sports counseling to persons on probation or youth justice supervision. Sports leaders provide sports counseling on a one-on-one basis during a 12-week program of activities designed for the…

The aims of this study were (1) to test the dyadic superiority hypothesis by comparing dyadic performance on a logical reasoning task with the performance of children working alone, and (2) to determine whether the incorrect child's compliance with the correct child was a major factor in the dyadic production of correct answers. (Author/DB)