Category Archives: Official Publications
Fascinating facts from our DERA repository
Amongst 12-year old children in Scotland, over 70% of boys want to continue their education after their GCSE’s – so do over 80% of girls. While over 50% of graduates declare a great deal of interest in politics, … Continue reading
Posted in electronic resources, Official Publications
Tagged databases, DERA, Official Publications
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Spotlight on the NUT donation: “Homework. A Memorandum issued by the National Union of Teachers on Educational Pamphlet No. 110 of the Board of Education”
As you may already be aware, in late 2016 we received a wonderful donation from the National Union of Teachers (NUT) which included 380 pamphlet boxes containing material published by the NUT itself and many other organisations operating in the … Continue reading
Posted in Library and Archives, Official Publications, Special Collections
Tagged 11+ examination, AAM, Association of assistant Mistresses (AAM), Board of Education, Conservative, Damian Hinds, DERA, elementary school, Grammar Schools, Homework, junior school, Labour, National Union of Teachers, NUT, pamphlets, parents, Primary Schools, Susan Hallam
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Focus on DERA (Digital Education Research Archive):Modern Foreign Languages (MFL)
The IOE Library has always collected documents published by government and other relevant bodies in the areas of education, training, children, and families. Today, the Official Publications Collection here at the Library is the largest of our special collections and … Continue reading
Posted in Library and Archives, Official Publications
Tagged Brexit, DERA, EBacc, England, English, English Baccalaureate, Europe, European, French, German, language learning, language teaching, linguistic, MFL, Modern Foreign Languages (MFL), Northern Ireland, Scotland, UK, Wales, Welsh, William Hague
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Focus on DERA (Digital Education Research Archive): Grammar Schools
The IOE Library has always collected documents published by government and other relevant bodies in the areas of education, training, children, and families. Today, the Official Publications Collection here at the Library is the largest of our special collections and … Continue reading
Posted in Library, Library and Archives, Official Publications
Tagged 11+ exam, 1976 Education Act, Academies, Academies Act 2010, circular 10/65, Comprehensive Schools, DERA, Digital Education Research Archive, Education Act 1944, Grammar Schools, Secondary Modern Schools, Secondary Technical Schools, Tripartite System, Weald of Kent Grammar School
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“Outdoor learning and Physical Education in Schools – what DERA has to say?”
The IOE Library has always collected documents published by government and other relevant bodies in the areas of education, training, children, and families. Today, the Official Publications Collection here at the Library is the largest of our special collections and … Continue reading
Posted in Library and Archives, Official Publications, Special Collections
Tagged children, DERA, House of Commons Library, mental health, nature, Nature Deficit Disorder, obesity, outdoor learning, physical activity, Physical Education, physical health, play, Stephen Moss, The Daily Mile, The National Trust, wellbeing
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A visit to the House of Lords: Teas, Tours and Policy Papers
We are justly proud of our Official Publications Collection here at the Library; our print holdings reflect the development of state education policy since the nineteenth century and of course we continue to preserve and protect born digital government publications through our … Continue reading
Favourite subjects versus relevant curriculum?
When I glanced through one of our new acquisitions – a book which analyses the success of Japan’s educational system – a list of pupils’ favourite subjects struck me. Both elementary and middle school students had voiced a preference for … Continue reading
More than just a number (Part 2): Making Administrative Memoranda discoverable
Back in January I wrote a post about the work that we have been doing to improve the discoverability of items within our Official Publications collection. That post demonstrated how we used digitisation techniques to unlock the content of some … Continue reading
More than just a number: bringing the content of Circulars to the surface
I would fully understand if you thought that it’s nigh-on impossible to be enthusiastic about Departmental Circulars; however I’m hoping that that by the end of this post you might share some of the excitement that I feel following the … Continue reading
