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Professor Gillean McCluskey has written briefing no 72, which summarises the content of her 2024 David Raffe memorial lecture. It can be downloaded from the ‘briefings’ page on this site, and the video recording of the whole lecture is available on YouTube.

This year’s lecture ‘Understanding school exclusion: what can we learn from a home international comparison?’ can now be viewed here (university host) or here (YouTube). The topic reflected David’s concern about the lasting impact of young people’s experience of schooling on their future life chances and how policy might make a positive difference. Professor McCluskey’s … Continued

Professor Lindsay Paterson’s new book examines the enormous changes in secondary schooling, higher education and the youth labour market over a period of profound social and educational change. It uses a series of surveys unique to Scotland to chart the changing patterns of social mobility from the 1950s onwards, and the resulting impact on Scotland’s … Continued

This new Briefing by Cristina Iannelli, Professor of Education and Social Stratification in the University of Edinburgh, is a 6-page summary of her 2022 David Raffe Memorial Lecture. The Briefing can be accessed directly here, or via our ‘Briefings’ page, while the original lecture the Briefing is based on can be viewed here (opens in … Continued

A video has been posted of this year’s David Raffe Memorial Lecture was delivered by Cristina Iannelli, Professor of Education and Social Stratification, Moray House School of Education and Sport, titled: “Behind the numbers: Understanding how social inequalities in education and the labour market come about” The video can be viewed here: https://media.ed.ac.uk/media/David+Raffe+Memorial+Lecture+2022/1_ge96y3rh (opens in … Continued

This new Briefing by Ewart Keep, emeritus professor in Education, Training and Skills at the Department of Education, Oxford University, is a 6-page summary of his 2021 David Raffe Memorial Lecture. The Briefing can be accessed directly here, or via our ‘Briefings’ page, while the original lecture the Briefing is based on can be viewed … Continued

Updated November 24, 2021 “Some thoughts on transitions from learning to earning and on the wider relationship between education and the labour market” We are pleased to announce the release of the video of the 2021 David Raffe Memorial Lecture, by Ewart Keep, emeritus professor in Education, Training and Skills at the Department of Education, … Continued

This new Briefing by Lindsay Paterson, Professor of Education Policy in the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, is an 8-page summary of analysis carried out as part of his Leverhulme Trust funded research ‘Education and Society in Scotland’.. The Briefing can be accessed directly here, or via our ‘Briefings’ page, while … Continued

This talk, the 2020 David Raffe Memorial Lecture, was delivered online, and the video is now available here (subtitles will be added in the near future). It attracted some attention in the Scottish press, including The Scotsman and the Holyrood magazine. Abstract by Lord McConnell: “Education is back at the centre of debate in Scotland. … Continued

Prof Lindsay Paterson’s new articles, described and available here, illustrate the great value of the Scottish Young People’s Survey (SYPS) but the datasets are complex and many are difficult to access  because they were created using earlier technologies. To open up access to the surveys, CES is now working with Edinburgh Datashare to develop an … Continued