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FORUM Spring 2026: Call for papers -Education and the new populism
Contributions are invited for the spring 2026 number of FORUM (68/1) for which the copy date is Friday 14 November 2025.
MORENot making it better: formal education and mental ill health
The prevalence of mental ill health among young people is on the rise. FORUM’s summer number addresses the way the school system is implicated, and, as Patrick Yarker writes, how it must change.
MOREAll children need a qualified teacher? How can that make any sense!
Architects of the academisation programme lined up in the House of Lords in May 2025 to criticise Labour’s Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill. Patrick Yarker considers one of the more bizarre objections raised.
MORECall for papers: FORUM 67.3 Autumn 2025
Contributions are invited for the Autumn 2025 number (Forum 67.3)
MOREForum 67.1 Spring 2025: In whose interest?
Forum’s newly-published Spring number addresses the way teachers engage responsibly with controversial issues. Introducing it, Patrick Yarker considers whether teachers’ unions really do put children last.
MORECall for papers – Soil
Category: Journals, New Formations
"Grounded Futures: The Poetics and Politics of Soil in a Changing World"
MORECurriculum and Assessment Review: trade-offs and challenges
Alpesh Maisuria reports on a recent All-Party Parliamentary Group meeting at which Professor Becky Francis gave an update on the progress of the government’s Curriculum and Assessment Review
MOREFuller disclosure
Labour’s modest moves against academisation have upset Katharine Birbalsingh, head of Michaela Community School. Patrick Yarker fills in some background to the school and spotlights the reactionary myth-making its headteacher deals in.
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