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Deb, Shoumitro; Limbu, Bharati; Nancarrow, Tom; Gerrard, David; Shankar, Rohit – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2023
Background: Overprescribing of off-licence psychotropic medications, particularly antipsychotics, for challenging behaviours in people with intellectual disabilities without a psychiatric disorder is a significant public health concern. In the United Kingdom, the National Health Service England launched an initiative in 2016, 'STopping…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychiatry, Experience, Adults
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Swinson, Jeremy – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2023
This paper examines the importance of educational psychology influence on UK Government education policy and school practice between the 1930s and the present time. It focuses on: the lead up to the 1944 Education Act; the 1967 Plowden Report on primary education; the 1973 Bullock Report on literacy; the 1978 Warnock Report on special education;…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Psychology, Government Role, Educational Policy
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Rachel Brooks; Johanna Waters – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
Following its departure from the European Union in 2020, the UK left the Erasmus + student mobility scheme, replacing it with the 'Turing Scheme'. The scheme is underpinned by four key objectives that address what the government sees as particular socio-economic and geo-political challenges: to promote 'Global Britain', through 'forging new…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Socioeconomic Influences, Colleges, Political Influences
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Martin, Jane; Millward, Chris – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2022
This article outlines Labour ideals and values, and demonstrates the tensions between egalitarian and meritocratic imperatives for the reform agendas Labour governments pursued in office and the educational settlements reached. It challenges 'common sense' interpretations of elites and elite education and fixed 'ability' thinking, and promotes the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Government Role, Politics of Education, Educational Change
Janssen, Lindsay – History Education Research Journal, 2023
This article considers the representation of the controversial issue of the Great Irish Famine (1845-50) in 27 recent Irish and UK history textbooks for the secondary level. Key contested issues -- imports and exports, the British government's laissez-faire economic policy, providentialist interpretations, and victim--perpetrator discourses --…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, History Instruction, European History
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Ken Hyland; Feng (Kevin) Jiang – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2024
The evaluation of research to allocate government funding to universities is now common across the globe. "The Research Excellence Framework," introduced in the UK in 2014, marked a major change by extending assessment beyond the 'quality' of published research to include its real-world 'impact'. Impact submissions were a key determinant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Finance, Government Role, Educational Research
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Maria Karaulova; Jakob Edler – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2024
Background: Knowledge brokering is suggested as an instrument to improve productive use of research in policy organisations. Previous research asserted that research utilisation is dependent on dynamics of knowledge exchange in institutional settings, but these claims have not received substantial empirical attention (Saarela et al, 2015; Akerlof…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Knowledge Economy, Knowledge Management
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Hamilton, Ben; Mutreja, Piyusha – Social Education, 2021
The goal this article is to describe the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, compare the situation in the United States (U.S.) to that of similar countries, and analyze the actions taken by the U.S. government. The authors chose to compare the U.S. to Canada, the United Kingdom, and Germany as these countries are similar to the U.S. in their…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Federal Government, Economic Impact
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James, David – Journal of Education and Work, 2020
This paper considers the potential significance of a concept of lifelong learning in the context of digital disruption. Having noted some contemporary contrasts in the visibility of lifelong learning policy, it revisits the earlier more widespread dominance of the concept, identifying not only variety but also tensions that are inherent and…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Government Role
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Chadderton, Charlotte – Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2023
In this paper, I focus on the UK government's COVID-19 pandemic response to schooling in England with regards to the impact on race inequality, an area which has received comparatively little attention. I review the existing research, drawing on work by academics, think tanks, lobbying organisations and media reports, conducted between spring 2020…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Government Role, COVID-19, Pandemics
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Thiel, Jonas – British Educational Research Journal, 2019
The UK National Student Survey (NSS) has high status on the agenda of UK universities. Its rise in status is linked to its influence on national rankings and associated funding streams referenced to the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF). Consequently, many universities have implemented further assessments of student satisfaction, thereby putting…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Student Surveys, Foreign Countries, Neoliberalism
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Hashim, Haswira Nor Mohamad; Khair, Muhamad Helmi Muhamad; Mahmood, Anida; Zakuan, Zeti Zuryani Mohd – Asian Journal of University Education, 2020
The objective of the research is to explore the aim, application and strategy perceived as important in the development of an outbound open innovation policy for exploitation of intellectual creation, design and creativity in Malaysian public universities (MPUs). Under existing intellectual property, innovation and commercialization policies, a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Creativity, Design, Public Colleges
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Bunnell, Tristan – Educational Review, 2022
The diverse arena of International Schooling concerned with schools delivering a non-local curriculum in English largely outside an English-speaking nation, has grown enormously during the current wave of globalisation. Traditionally, the arena of "International Schools" played an intended ideological and pragmatic role, albeit in a…
Descriptors: International Schools, Private Schools, Public Schools, Elementary Secondary Education
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Brazzill, Marc – Higher Education Quarterly, 2021
There is a growing consensus in political science research that higher education systems are classifiable into stable distinct types that reflect dominant trends in government partisanship. There is also a large body of higher education research that argues that higher education systems are changing and converging upon a neoliberal type, which is…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Neoliberalism, Cross Cultural Studies, Educational Development
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Price, Theodore – Research in Drama Education, 2018
This paper details the oscillation between the aesthetic and political response to the refugee crisis as seen through the eyes of the UK's emergency response committee COBRA (Cabinet Office Briefing Room A) and its alternative COBRA RES. Firstly, it examines the interjection of the official COBRA Committee within the image-economy of crisis,…
Descriptors: Emergency Programs, Public Policy, Criticism, Government Role
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