The proliferation of large, complex data spatial data sets presents challenges to the way that regional science-and geography more widely-is researched and taught. Increasingly, it is not "just" quantitative skills that are needed, but computational ones. However, the majority of undergraduate...

Formative assessment - the frequent assessments of student progress to identify learning needs and shape teaching - has become a prominent issue in education reform. The achievement gains associated with formative assessment have been described as "among the largest ever reported for educational...

Despite many examples of good practice, large weaknesses exist in many countries' national career guidance services, according to extensive research conducted by the OECD, and by the Centre for the Development of Vocational Training and the European Training Foundation on behalf of the European...