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Victoria Cross heroes (2007)
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Smart, D. (2007). Victoria Cross heroes. London

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From opportunity to OFFA: The implementation of discretionary bursaries and their impact on student finance, academic success and institutional attachment (2007)
Journal Article
Harrison, N., Baxter, A., & Hatt, S. (2007). From opportunity to OFFA: The implementation of discretionary bursaries and their impact on student finance, academic success and institutional attachment. Journal of Access Policy and Practice, 5(1), 3-21

This paper presents a summary of findings from a five-year longitudinal study of a cohort of full-time students from low income backgrounds holding the national Excellence Challenge Opportunity Bursaries and similar institutional bursaries at a post-... Read More about From opportunity to OFFA: The implementation of discretionary bursaries and their impact on student finance, academic success and institutional attachment.

Truancy in secondary school pupils: Prevalence, trajectories and pupil perspectives (2006)
Journal Article
Attwood, G., & Croll, P. (2006). Truancy in secondary school pupils: Prevalence, trajectories and pupil perspectives. Research Papers in Education, 21(4), 467-484. https://doi.org/10.1080/02671520600942446

School absenteeism and particularly unauthorized absenteeism or truancy has been the focus of a number of, so far largely unsuccessful, recent policy initiatives. The paper draws upon two sources of data, the British Household Panel Survey and detail... Read More about Truancy in secondary school pupils: Prevalence, trajectories and pupil perspectives.

Delimiting knowledge transfer from training (2006)
Journal Article
Butler, A., Le Grice, P., & Reed, M. (2006). Delimiting knowledge transfer from training. Education and Training, 48(8-9), 627-641. https://doi.org/10.1108/00400910610710056

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to deepen the understanding of how and to whom knowledge is transferred from training to practice. Design/methodology/approach - Through recognising the interrelationship between knowledge, social network struct... Read More about Delimiting knowledge transfer from training.

Children's 'funds of knowledge' and their real life activities: Two minority ethnic children learning in out-of-school contexts in the UK (2006)
Journal Article
Andrews, J., & Yee, W. C. (2006). Children's 'funds of knowledge' and their real life activities: Two minority ethnic children learning in out-of-school contexts in the UK. Educational Review, 58(4), 435-449. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131910600971909

In this paper we explore the concept of 'funds of knowledge' used by Moll and Greenberg (1990) in the US to recognize and value expertise located within minority ethnic communities and apply it to the out-of-school learning engaged in by two primary... Read More about Children's 'funds of knowledge' and their real life activities: Two minority ethnic children learning in out-of-school contexts in the UK.

Professional researcher or a 'good guest'? Ethical dilemmas involved in researching children and families in the home setting (2006)
Journal Article
Yee, W. C., & Andrews, J. (2006). Professional researcher or a 'good guest'? Ethical dilemmas involved in researching children and families in the home setting. Educational Review, 58(4), 397-413. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131910600971859

In this article we explore our experiences of researching children and families in the home setting. We trace the impact of the home setting on some ethical and methodological issues which arose in the course of conducting our field work and consider... Read More about Professional researcher or a 'good guest'? Ethical dilemmas involved in researching children and families in the home setting.