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Prof. Melanie Ehren appointed to an advisory group, chaired by Oxford University on behalf of England’s Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation
Melanie Ehren was recently appointed to an advisory group, chaired by Oxford University on behalf of England’s Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual) to evaluate the Resilience of England’s Qualification System. The purpose of the group is to help identify features of the qualifications system that make it vulnerable to failure, particularly in the face of disruptive events. The aim is to identify changes required for the system to be robust and resilient to the impact of highly unusual events, such as pandemics but also to be resilient to more frequent threats which nonetheless lead to ‘crises’ of the nature experienced every 3 to 5 years. The group commended its work in March 2022 with the aim of producing a diagnostic report in 9 to 12 months time.
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Jana Runze Wins the FGB Open Science Award
Jana Runze, PhD Candidate at the Clinical Child and Family Studies, won the FGB Open Science Award with her project “Replicating a randomized trial with video-feedback to promote positive parenting in parents of school-aged twins”. In this project, she focused on using open science to improve replicability, reproducibility and transparency in family interventions. Read her published paper here.
BENGOO’s Emerging Researchers Conference
The Belgian-Dutch Association for the History of Education (BENGOO) launches on Saturday 23th April its first Emerging Researchers Conference. Via this brand-new initiative BENGOO wants to reach out to all young scholars conducting research related to the history of education and offer them the possibility to present their research (findings). We invite applications from master's students, PhD students and post-docs affiliated to a Belgian and/or Dutch university who focus on historical themes relating to education, schooling and upbringing in their ongoing research. Extended deadline: 1 April 2022. Further information: www.bengoo.nl or ask BENGOO’ president Pieter Verstraete (pieter.verstraete@kuleuven.be) or vice president John Exalto (j.exalto@vu.nl).
