Organisations
ASCL: Yesterday and Today
The Association of School and College Leaders celebrates its 150th anniversary with a site exloring its past and containing its archive of professional guidance and policies since 1979.
British History Online
Created by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust, British History Online contains some of the core sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles.
British Schools Museum
Housed in a 19th century school building in Hitchin, the museum welcomes visitors (including school parties) and provides outreach services.
Brunel University London
The online catalogue of Brunel's Archives includes many historic education documents.
Cambridge Primary Review Trust
The successor (2012-17) to the Cambridge Primary Review (2006-10) and the Cambridge Primary Review Network (2010-12), the Trust's website contains an extensive archive of documents and resources relating to policy, research and practice in primary education, and the complex relationship between policy, politics and evidence. The Review, whose final report was published in 2010, remains the biggest and most comprehensive enquiry into English primary education since the Plowden Report of 1967.
Campaign for Secular Education
CSE campaigns against faith schools and argues that religion - and especially indoctrination - should be kept out of schools.
Campaign for State Education
CASE campaigns for an education system that is fair to all children, young people and their parents, and which has the resources to provide excellent quality.
Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education
Founded in 1982, CSIE is a national charity that works to promote equality and eliminate discrimination in education; their website includes a useful resources section.
Comprehensive Future
Campaigns for a comprehensive secondary school system in England with fair admissions criteria to all publicly funded schools.
Department for Education
The website of the government department responsible for education.
Deptford Ragged School Archive
A heritage outreach project with a collection of objects which tell the history of the Deptford Ragged School and the part it played in the community of Deptford from 1844.
The Edge Foundation
An independent charity which aims to 'inspire the education system to give all young people across the UK the knowledge, skills and behaviours they need to flourish in their future life and work'.
Educational Opportunity Foundation
Held at Brunel University, the Archive of the British and Foreign School Society (now the Educational Opportunity Foundation) is probably the most important collection in the world on 19th Century elementary education and teacher training.
Education in London
Part of the London Wiki website, this site contains much useful historical information.
The Evidence-Based Teachers Network
EBTN is an independent network of teachers who wish to use evidence-based methods in classrooms and training. Mike Bell maintains the website and arranges mailings.
Forum
Published three times a year, Forum has been campaigning for comprehensive education since 1958. The complete archive of back numbers is freely available online - a wonderful resource.
History of Education Centre
Run by a charity, the Centre's Victorian Schoolroom in Edinburgh provides a unique opportunity to discover the changes that have taken place in schools and domestic life, in particular in the Victorian and Edwardian eras
History of Education Society
Founded in 1967, the society aims to promote the study and teaching of the history of education and
to encourage and support research.
Language Lives
Mike Byram, John Daniels and Alan Dobson present conversations with language education specialists which they hope will contribute to a better understanding of language teaching and learning and ensure that lessons from the past are not forgotten in developments for the future.
Learning Without Limits
An ongoing project dedicated to developing approaches to teaching and learning that do not rely on determinist beliefs about ability.
London School Board
The London School Board was the first London-wide popularly elected body. This is a useful resource covering the period 1870 to 1904.
National Association for Primary Education
NAPE aims to promote the education of children from birth to thirteen. It has more than 200,000 members including parents, teachers, school governors, inspectors and education officers.
National Secular Society
Founded in 1866, the NSS campaigns for the separation of state and religion and for an end to 'faith schools' funded by the taxpayer. It provides Exploring Secularism, an archive of educational resources; and The faith schools research bank, which contains summaries of, and links to, around 200 articles.
Ofsted
The government agency responsible for the inspection of schools and a range of other services for children and young people, and learners of all ages.
Other Education
'Other Education looks at education differently. Our work enables and enhances movement of education towards the democratic, the autonomous and the socially just. How this is done is, with us, open. We are open to be different ...'
Public Schools (UK)
This Wikipedia page is an invaluable source of information about Britain's public (ie private) schools.
Risinghill School Memorial Website
The website of the Risinghill Research Group is a tribute to the pupils, teachers and staff of Risinghill School 1960-1965, made famous by Leila Berg's 1968 book Risinghill: Death of a Comprehensive School.
School curriculum
This government website contains information about the national curriculum, early years, key stages 1 to 5, GCSEs and AS and A levels, tests, exams and assessments.
Secondary Education and Social Change in the UK since 1945
A research project led by Professor Peter Mandler in the Faculty of History at Cambridge, with Research Associates Dr Laura Carter and Dr Chris Jeppesen and Public Engagement Coordinator, Dr Annie Thwaite.
Socialist Education Association
The only educational organisation affiliated to the Labour Party, the SEA campaigns for a non-selective education service which develops the full potential of each individual. Its current President is Professor Richard Pring.
Sports Leisure Legacy Project
The Sports Leisure Legacy Project records the history of the development of community sports and leisure centres in the UK, and the recreation management profession it initiated.
Technical and Vocational Education
Richard Evans' invaluable website includes his own detailed history of technical and vocational education, and articles discussing the current importance of the subject.
The Victorian School
Based in Minehead, Somerset, this project offers resources and school visits for those (especially at Key Stages 1 and 2) studying Victorian history and schooling.
People
Robin Alexander
Professor Robin Alexander's long career in education has included research and writing on culture, policy and practice in primary education, pedagogy, dialogic teaching, and comparative, international and development education. He also served on various educational quangos and two national enquiries into primary education, one government-initiated and the other, which he led, wholly independent.
Aubrey Nunes
In Possible (and impossible) words, clinical linguist Dr Nunes writes about historical figures who advocated child-centred education, from Roger Ascham (1514-1568) to Lada Iosifovna Aidarova (1936-2006).
Roger Titcombe
In his blog Learning Matters, retired head and education researcher Roger Titcombe, argues that things have gone wrong in schools and shows how they might be put right.
Sally Tomlinson
In a long and distinguished career, Professor Sally Tomlinson has researched and written in the areas of race, ethnicity and education, educational policy and special and inclusive education. She was a member of the Commission on the Future of Multi-ethnic Britain which reported in 2000.
Dylan Wiliam
Dylan Wiliam, Emeritus Professor of Educational Assessment at UCL, has created an archive of government press releases from his time working on National Curriculum assessment in England and Wales between 1989 and 1991.
