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ESRC CASE Studentship School of Education
Applications are invited for an ESRC CASE (+3) Studentship in the area of equitable education systems. The project offers an exciting opportunity to join a team of senior researchers working on an innovative development and research strategy - the Calderdale Challenge with Calderdale Local Authority and to base a doctoral thesis on this work. The focus of the Challenge is to break the link between disadvantage, education and life chances. Working under the supervision of Professor Mel Ainscow, Professor Alan Dyson and Paul Brennan, Head of Learning Services for Calderdale Council s/he will monitor the development of this strategy in a way that is intended to strengthen its implementation and draw lessons that will be relevant to wider audiences.
Further Information and details of how to apply can be found here:
- ESRC CASE Studentships - further information (Microsoft Word, 329 KB)
PhD Studentship - Urban Education, School of Education
Applications are sought for a doctoral studentship in the field of urban education. The successful candidate will join a team of senior researchers working on an innovative development and research initiative with the New Charter Academy in Ashton-under-Lyne, Tameside. Working under the supervision of Professor Alan Dyson and other colleagues, s/he will contribute to the initiative as a whole and will define a strand of research on which to base a doctoral thesis. The studentship is to the value of £17,000 for each of three years (including the fee element), beginning no later than September 2008.
Ellen Wilkinson
The Building (formerly known as Humanities Building Devas Street) has been named after Ellen Wilkinson. The daughter of a millworker, she was born in Manchester in 1891 and, having gained a scholarship, was educated at the Ardwick Higher Grade School there. She won a scholarship to Manchester University, graduating in 1913 in History and obtained her masters degree the following year. The University awarded her an honorary degree of LL.D. in 1946.
Ellen Wilkinson joined the Independent Labour Party in 1912. She was active in local politics as well as in the movement for womens suffrage, becoming an organiser of the National Union of Womens Suffrage Societies in 1913. She became an official of the National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers in 1915 and around the same time, being a strong supporter of the tradition of independent working-class education, became a member of the national organisations of one of the agencies promoting such education, the Plebs League.
She was one of the founders of the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1920 and was elected to the Manchester City Council three years later. Shortly afterwards she resigned from the Party and joined the Labour Party. She was elected to Parliament as Labour member for Middlesbrough East in 1924, retaining the seat until 1931. In 1935 she was elected MP for Jarrow, a seat she held until her death in 1947. During the 1920s and 1930s she took part in several of the unemployment marches, and supported the miners strike that led to the General Strike of 1926. Within a year of her election as MP for Jarrow, a ship building town, she was one of the leaders of the Jarrow march to London in which about two hundred unemployed persons sought to bring to the attention of the government the seriousness of their plight. In 1939 Wilkinson had published by Gollancz her book about the extreme difficulties brought on by unemployment in her book The town that was murdered: the life-story of Jarrow.
During the Second World War Wilkinson joined in 1940 a coalition government headed by Winston Churchill. Initially she was appointed as Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Pensions, subsequently becoming Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Home Security until 1945.
At the general election of 1945 the Labour Party secured victory by an overall majority of almost 150 seats. The new Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, appointed Wilkinson as Minister of Education and gave her the responsibility of ensuring that the provisions of the Education Act of 1944, a most significant piece of legislation, were implemented.
For more information on Ellen Wilkinson you can visit the following link http://manchesterhistory.net/ardwick/home/Ellen.html
See also the entry for her in the Biographical Dictionary of Women (London: Penguin Books, 1998) and Betty D Vernon Ellen Wilkinson 1891-1947 (London: Croom Helm, 1982).
The School of Education is based in the Ellen Wilkinson Building (Campus Map Building 77). It is situated by the Student Union, just behind the Contact Theatre.
Sick of textbooks becoming more and more expensive?
A website has been set up to try and assist students in getting the book(s) they need. It is a website solely for students where they can buy and sell books with one another. It is totally FREE TO USE and it enables students to get their textbook(s) at a more affordable price and to recoup their costs when they have finished with them. The website is www.coursetext.co.ukMEd in Inclusive Education
The MEd in Inclusive Education is an exciting and innovative course focusing on organisational change in education. It recruits students from a wide range of diverse backgrounds, both full-time and part-time, those involved in policy making and teaching, both in special education and in broader issues of educational equity. Here is what a recent UK graduate said about the experience:
"The MEd in inclusive education has been a major influence on the progress I have made within further education. It has informed and improved my practice and enabled me to provide a much improved experience for the learners that I work with. The MEd has also allowed me to progress in my career and move into teacher education and staff development. I believe the MEd to be a highly informative course which allows students to develop their own ideas and to understand the wider issues of inclusion and how they can be used to within their own educational context."
Postgraduate Certificate in Supervision
The Postgraduate Certificate in Supervision of Counselling and the Helping Professions is an 18 month course. If you are interested in applying for this course please download the below poster.
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Community and Youth Work Studies
Units of our Community and Youth Work Studies course are available as individual courses to currently active community workers and youth workers (paid or unpaid) who wish to undertake an individual course for professional development.