Clare Baxter
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Knowledge Exchange: Improving Wellbeing in Schools with Connected Belonging
Over 60 Practitioners from local Mental Health Support Teams, schools and councils joined Ceri Brown, Michael Donnelly and Alison Douthwaite for a half-day workshop to explore Connected Belonging; a research-informed framework for supporting well-being and Mental Health in schools. The...
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Understanding and Intervening on the risks to Early Leaving in Europe
Researchers in the department of Education are engaged in a project dedicated to tackling early leaving: the Orienta4YEL project aims to understand and intervene on early leaving within 48 educational settings across key regions in five nations.
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What are skills and what are they for?
Prospectuses, course information, job descriptions, person specifications, policy documents and careers advice blogs are replete with references to ‘skills’. Skills are everywhere but, as Payne noted, pinning down what the term actually means seems as tricky as ever.
