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Sarah

Dr. Sarah Fletcher

Editor-in-chief; International Journal for Mentoring and Coaching in Education; http://www.emeraldinsight.com/ijmce.htm

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	20 January 2012
	Highlights New Ofsted-friendly online self-evaluation for schools NFER's School Self Evaluation Tracker (SSET) has been very positively received by schools. NFER featured on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour when Tom Benton discussed with doyenne of the airwaves Jenni Murray, why being left out is the worst form of bullying. New local government area on website brings together NFER research, information and support services for staff in education and children's services at local level. What role do the police have to play in education? NFER study shows a wealth of benefits resulting from police working in schools.   Latest Published Research Targeting children's centre services on the most needy families provides local authority early years' and children's services leaders, and children's centre managers with evidence of how children's centre services are targeting the most disadvantaged families. More... International comparison of computing in schools forms part of a Royal Society project on how computing is taught in schools. More... Support for schools Let NFER help you with your analysis and marking of the Standard and Testing Agency (STA)'s optional tests for years 3, 4 and 5 in mathematics, reading and writing. More... Using NFER to evaluate the views of your pupils, parents and staff will help you to develop your school improvement plan and be ahead for your Ofsted inspection. More... The NFER Research Programme In 2011 NFER developed its own programme of research to focus on important, unresearched areas within education and the reports from the first stage of this work are being published in February. More... Eurydice and INCA News Eurydice has launched Eurypedia the European Encyclopedia on National Education Systems, a new online resource for understanding education systems in Europe. More... Updated overviews of the education systems in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are now available on the Eurydice at NFER website. More... INCA Comparative Tables: December 2011 edition provides an overview of key education issues across 21 countries. More...		Futurelab Digital Literacy Michael Gove's speech at BETT 2012 has reignited the debate around the teaching of ICT and digital literacy. Digital literacy is a term that is being more widely used but what exactly do we mean by it? At Futurelab we use the term to describe the wide set of skills required to manage the vast amount of information that is now accessible through information technology. More... Re-register To ensure we send you relevant and useful information, please update the records that we have about you, by following the link below. Re-register here Events 15 Feb 2012 British Early Childhood Education Research Association (Annual Conference) Caroline Sharp and Pippa Lord of NFER will be presenting a seminar on recent work published by NFER. More... 21 Feb 2012 Reviewing the Maths Curriculum, Westminster Education Forum seminar Sarah Maughan, NFER’s Director of Research, looks at how the content of the current curriculum compares with that of other nations and best practice that England's curriculum could implement to improve. More...
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