School of Education

Education Systems, Curriculum and Policy (ESCP)

ESCP examines how education systems are designed, governed and reformed, particularly in early years and compulsory education. The group’s work spans educational leadership and management, curriculum, assessment, policy design, governance and system-level change, drawing on comparative, historical and empirical perspectives. Research in ESCP engages with national and international debates on quality, coherence, accountability and the public purposes of education.

RTG Leader: Ms Marie McQuade

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ESCP News

  • 16 Feb

    Curriculum making in Wales

    This online webinar takes place on 18th February and is presented by Kara Makara Fuller, David Morrison-Love and Fiona Patrick. The session will focus on their work as part of the Camau i’r Dyfodol (Steps to the Future) project.
  • 16 Feb

    New article - Scottish education’s search for a fairer system?

    Christopher Chapman and Graham Donaldson on how long-held beliefs about the purpose and nature of school education are being challenged in Scotland and far beyond.
  • 16 Feb

    New international reading group

    ITERC (the International Teacher Education Research Collective) is an international group of education scholars and teaching professionals. They run regular reading groups, which often lead to international conference symposia and publications (collaborative papers and books), meet online twice a year to discuss pressing issues of education, and collaborate on research projects and funding bids.
  • 16 Feb

    PESGB event - Resonance in education?

    A PESGB (Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain) event will be taking place Monday 9th March organised by Ruth Unsworth (University of Glasgow) and David Lewin (University of Strathclyde), entitled Resonance in Education? Rethinking Encounter, Attunement, and Transformation. All tickets are now taken and it promises to a great event. The keynote is by Johannes Rytzler, Senior Lecturer in Education at Mälardalen University, Sweden.
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