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Find out what's been happening in the Manchester Institute of Education (MIE).
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Report calls for national rollout of local child wellbeing surveys like #BeeWell
26 Apr 2024
A new report from Child of the North and Anne Longfield’s Centre for Young Lives think tank has set out a plan for the Government to boost ...
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Programme to tackle children’s mental health delivers more than £5m of benefits to society
17 Apr 2024
Millions of pounds of wellbeing benefits were delivered to society last year as part of a mental health initiative in schools, according to a new ...
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Professor Pamela Qualter appointed as co-chair of WHO Commission Advisory Group
11 Apr 2024
In November 2023, the World Health Organisation (WHO) established the Commission on Social Connection, which aims to reposition social connection as ...
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Hope and optimism on the rise among young people
15 Mar 2024
Latest #BeeWell data presents a much-needed good news story for young people’s mental health and wellbeing.
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The Engine Room opens in Southport, providing creatives a valuable resource
6 Mar 2024
Situated in a heritage shopping arcade, The Engine Room is a co-working and co-learning space designed to counter the trend of creatives leaving ...
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Positioning Manchester at the forefront of the Generative AI revolution in Education
4 Mar 2024
Generative AI is an emerging interdisciplinary area which will have wide-ranging impacts on everyday life, especially education. To tackle global ...
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Inaugural lecture by Steven Courtney, Professor of Sociology of Education Leadership
4 Mar 2024
On Wednesday 28 February, the School of Environment, Education and Development and guests celebrated the appointment to professorship of Steven ...
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Autism crisis sees thousands of children wait years for support, report finds
7 Feb 2024
A new report has revealed a crisis in children’s autism assessment, warning that thousands of autistic children and young people are waiting months ...
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University awarded £23.5m to lead delivery of educational psychology training
24 Jan 2024
The University of Manchester has been awarded over £23.5m by the government’s Department for Education (DfE) to lead a national consortium of eight...
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#BeeWell working to improve wellbeing as latest international life satisfaction scores are released
6 Dec 2023
17,000 year 10 students across Greater Manchester have completed the #BeeWell survey this autumn, in addition to 73,000 completed surveys since 2021. ...
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TEPL Research and Scholarship Group updates on first year
17 Nov 2023
One year on, we are delighted that as a group we are making headway in achieving our aims: To bring together a wide array of researchers, scholars ...
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Access to creative Higher Education remains ‘highly unequal’, says new research
23 Oct 2023
A new report has found that the creative workforce is still dominated by graduates, with access to creative Higher Education remaining highly unequal.
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Children do better at school if their fathers read and play with them
20 Sep 2023
Fathers can give their children an educational advantage at primary school by reading, drawing and playing with them, according to a new report ...
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#BeeWell survey of young people’s wellbeing returns for third year
20 Sep 2023
The #BeeWell survey - designed as a gold standard survey for the measurement of adolescent wellbeing across England - has returned to Greater ...
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Tackling loneliness requires a new approach which addresses societal inequalities
10 Aug 2023
A review into loneliness inequalities conducted by some of the UK’s leading scholars in the field has highlighted key social and societal factors ...
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Experts call for teacher training changes to create more inclusive curriculum
25 May 2023
A new briefing from The University of Manchester’s Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) and the Runnymede Trust has highlighted the need to ...
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Manchester twins with Tokyo to offer joint research experience
10 May 2023
The University’s Faculty of Science and Engineering and the Graduate School of Science, University of Tokyo, are pleased to announce the launch of a...
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Parental help with schoolwork does little for children’s academic progress
14 Apr 2023
The amount of time parents spend with their children contributes much less to their progress in school than the family’s social class, new research ...
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Persistent inequalities in young people’s wellbeing revealed by #BeeWell survey
23 Mar 2023
The latest #BeeWell survey demonstrates that while the wellbeing of young people across Greater Manchester has remained stable over the past two ...
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MIE Academic selected for national policy scholarship programme
25 Jan 2023
The Manchester Institute of Education (MIE) is delighted to recognise Dr Paul Armstrong who has been named as one of eight Reform Scholars for 2023. ...
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Young people’s wellbeing falls sharply after starting secondary school
23 Nov 2022
Most young people in the UK experience a sharp decline in their wellbeing during their first years at secondary school regardless of their ...
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New project launches to combat inequalities in education
31 Oct 2022
The University of Manchester and Tutor Trust have joined forces to launch a new research-based social justice project which seeks to combat ...
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Author and broadcaster Jeffrey Boakye joins The University of Manchester
31 Aug 2022
The University of Manchester is delighted to confirm the appointment of Jeffrey Boakye as a Senior Teaching Fellow in Manchester Institute of ...
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Study to examine effects of children’s life skills programme
25 May 2022
Researchers based at The University of Manchester are set to begin a study that will examine the effects of a school-based life skills programme after...
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Pandemic has made young people more depressed, research finds
18 May 2022
A new study measuring the impact of COVID-19 on the wellbeing and mental health of adolescents has found that the pandemic has made them more ...
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