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Social mixing in school is good for social mobility. All the more reason we need to reform school admission codes to stop the stratification between schools with high and low numbers of disadvantaged kids we see today. 👇 ⁦The Sutton Trust⁩ apple.news/ATVS743VwTKmOf…

We are looking to speak to parents of P7 pupils in Newry and North Belfast for our research on post-primary transfer. Please share! If you're interested in participating, please let us know here: forms.office.com/e/9QeTwDryqJ

Plus there'll be an online seminar for researchers, policymakers and practitioners on race, ethnicity and education in NI in October, run between SSESW at Queen's and BERA. Watch this space!

Always inspiring to hear about the fantastic work on antiracism in education that's taking place in Wales. Thanks to BERA and DARPL for an uplifting day.

"Four key questions facing the Integrated Education movement". This week's guest writer for Pivotal Platform is campaigner and data analyst Jack Russell. pivotalppf.org/our-work/pivot…

⚡️Survey of current university students aine doran, Maureen OReilly and I are currently examining how students decide where to go to university. As part of this we are surveying current uni students. Link: forms.office.com/e/80XqbE5DJG

The next Marlon Lee Moncrieffe BERA Four Nations Presidential Seminar will be the opening plenary at BERA conference September 9th 2025. I will converse with policy makers, teachers, and researchers as leaders of anti-racist practice in advancing education for all. Do join us⬇️

AntiRacist Education TeachMeet 12th June, 6-8pm, The Commons, Belfast. Please join us for an informal evening of food, discussion & sharing best practice. I'll feedback on trip to Poland with #StandUptoRacism delegation. We will plan together how to tackle racism in our schools.

Plenty of news reporting today on the research by our colleagues Ian Collen 🇪🇺 and Dr Jayne Duff on language learning in schools in Northern Ireland. Read the full report of their British Council funded research here: tinyurl.com/mr6d37p4

Pleased to be associated with this systematic review of literature on academic selection in the UK, led by Ian Cantley. Consistent with the current emphasis on evidence in NI education policy, it offers a rigorous evaluation and synthesis of the research. bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/re…

‘No ifs, no buts... politicians must call out these odious racist attacks for what they are. ‘No politician should be permitted to conflate them with any other issues.’ - Suzanne Breen Belfast Telegraph belfasttelegraph.co.uk/opinion/column…

Paul Frew MLA claims that people in Ballymena "are frightened about illegal immigration". An elected representative should be challenging these expressly false narratives (as well as campaigning for safe and legal routes to the UK more generally), not amplifying them.

These topics are much more complex and nuanced than a few lines can address, but glad that a couple of the educational issues I raised, including the need for more explicit commitments to antiracism in the curriculum, made it into this piece. theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/j…

The IEF was delighted to host the launch of 'The Strengths and Weaknesses of the Integrated Education Transformation Process' research report Queen's University Belfast 🎓 this morning. Read the report in full here: ief.org.uk/our-work/resea…