INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES IN EDUCATION
Research and analysis in Education with a commitment to social justice.
The Institute for Policy Studies in Education (IPSE) is a groundbreaking research institute with a unique focus on education and social justice.
Fifty per cent of the education research at London Metropolitan University has been rated as world leading (4*) or as internationally excellent (3*) in the 2008 UK Universities Research Assessment Exercise. Over a further third of our work was recognised internationally.
This places London Metropolitan’s educational research in the highest 20% of universities in the UK.
Latest IPSE News
Keynote Lectures
Carole Leathwood was invited to deliver the Sheila Soul-Grey Memorial Lecture at the Annual NALN and Ukadia Conference (the National Arts Learning Network and UK Art and Design Institutions Association) in London on 10th February and also gave an invited lecture on 'Gender and the Feminisation of Higher Education: The E/Quality Challenge?'at De Haagse Hogeschool - The Hague University of Applied Sciences.
Supplementary Schools Report Published
The Supplementary Schools report and research brief by IPSE and the National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) have been published by the DCSF. Please see:
Supplementary Schools Report
Supplementary Schools Research Brief
Teacher Training Select Committee
IPSE research is quoted in the recent Select Committee report into teacher training. It refers to two reports we produced about supply teachers.
- Hutchings, M. ,Osgood, J., Allen, K., Maylor, U. and Williams, K. (2009) Scoping Manageable and Strategic Approaches to CPD for Supply Teachers, (commissioned by the General Teaching Council)
- Hutchings, M. James, K., Maylor, U., Menter I. and Smart, S. (2006) The Recruitment, Deployment and Management of Supply Teachers in England, DfES Research Report 738.
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