Susan Robertson is Professor of Education at the University of Cambridge. Her research is concerned with the changing nature of education as a result of transformations in the wider global, regional and local economies and societies, and the changing scales on which ideas, power and politics are negotiated. She is particularly interested in how these dynamics challenge, and change, the nature and scope of education outcomes and the social justice implications of these for different social groups – including students and teachers. Her recent books include: Public Private Partnerships in Education with Karen Mundy, Anthony Verger and Francine Menashy (published by Edward Elgar), and Privatisation, Education and Social Justice with Ian Macpherson and Geoffrey Walford (published by Symposium Books).
Written by Susan Robertson
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Leading the profession 6 September 2021 Storm in a Teacup, or a Typhoon Brewing? Rising Barometer on the Market Review of Initial Teacher Education Reform in England.
Susan Robertson
On July 5th 2021, just as English schools, teacher training providers and universities were packing up after a long hard year navigating Covid-19 and series of ill-managed lockdowns by government, the Department for Education’s (DfE) commissioned review on Initial Teacher Training (ITT) was released. Called a Market Review of Initial...
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Leading the profession 27 August 2021 The Right to an Outstanding Teacher
Susan Robertson
You couldn’t make it up. Claim you are concerned about a high-quality teacher training offer for the sector and impose on the sector a one-size-fits-all, highly prescribed, and tightly regulated model. Say you are in consultation mode but do it over the summer when no-one is around, and for good...
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 8 May 2018 #ResNet: "Wheeling and Dealing in Education and Global Trade Agreements", by Susan L. Robertson
Susan Robertson
As the minutes ticked down toward the final boarding call for my late evening train from London to Brussels, I was furiously typing up notes from a research report I had just read on the Trade in Services Agreement, otherwise known as TISA. The young man sitting next to me...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 What educators need to know about global trade deals
Susan Robertson
14 December 2017The EI study What Educators Need to Know About Global Trade Deals explores the economic, political and social conditions, development agendas, combinations of actors and regulatory instruments, which together have challenged the idea of, and conditions for, education as a public service and a human right by locking in a...
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Worlds of Education 1 June 2016 Who Needs ‘Really Good Friends’ When This is What They Are Up To? Trading Away Education as a Human and Political Right!Who Needs ‘Really Good Friends’ When This is What They Are Up To? Trading Away Education as a Human and Political Right!
Susan Robertson
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Worlds of Education 5 April 2016 The panama papers, public education and democracyThe panama papers, public education and democracy
Susan Robertson
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Fighting the commercialisation of education 1 February 2016 When Private Interests Into Public Education Simply Do Not GoWhen Private Interests Into Public Education Simply Do Not Go
Susan Robertson
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Worlds of Education 3 December 2015 When Private Interests into Public Education Simply Do Not Add UpWhen Private Interests into Public Education Simply Do Not Add Up
Susan Robertson