Jaswinder Dhillon

University of Worcester | UW · Institute of Education

With over 40 spoken tongues in Kenya, English serves as a language of instruction in schools and is taught fromthe onset of schooling, making the language a significant factor in academic achievement and subsequent socialmobility. This article draws on a case study conducted in an urban multilingual primary school in Kenya andfocuses on the challen...

Formal and informal partnerships have become key features of education policy and practice in many countries and managing such collaborative arrangements is an important dimension of the role(s) of leaders of educational organizations. Recent research has shown both the tensions and conflict that can develop in partnerships as well as the opportuni...

Partnership is a dominant theme in education policy and practice in England and in other western countries but remains relatively under-researched, especially with respect to what sustains a partnership. This article draws on a study of partnership working in the field of post-16 learning that revealed the role of dimensions of social capital in su...

This article offers insights into the ethics of engagement and methodological issues and dilemmas in cross-cultural interpretation for researchers who are positioned at different points of the insider-outsider spectrum. The discussion uses examples from qualitative research with Sikh families in Britain and focuses on the design of the methodology...

This chapter explores the experience of an immigrant in the transnational Sikh diaspora. It uses an innovative methodology, bilingual-bicultural life history, to narrate the story of displacement from an insider perspective. The findings focus on the overarching theme of diaspora as ‘unbelonging’ and how this is experienced through living parallel...

Leadership and management in schools have sought to produce high quality education for all pupils. To inform and support school leaders’ educationalists have developed theories and undertaken research studies identifying the relationships, contexts and characteristics that enable effective leadership. However, recent times of turbulence in primary...

The need for outstanding leadership in education and professional practice has been brought into sharper focus during the COVID-19 pandemic. Crises, such as this global pandemic, often place additional burdens on leaders and other professionals who are seeking to achieve high-quality education for all pupils. We offer a tool for leaders and manager...

Multimedia programs having a number of elements like Texts, spoken words, sound & music, graphics, animations and still pictures provide different stimuli in their presentations. Art is the field of education that provides a platform for rigorous investigation, representation, expression, and reflection of both scholastic content and the art form i...

The nature of leadership and management in a school are key to achieving high-quality education for all pupils. Leadership theories and empirical research have sought to identify characteristics of leaders, aspects of the context in which they work and their relationships with others to identify features of successful school leadership. This articl...

The nature of leadership and management in a school are key to achieving high quality education for all pupils. Both leadership theories and empirical research have sought to identify characteristics of leaders, aspects of the context in which they work and their relationships with others to identify features of successful school leadership. This a...

This chapter focuses on systems, policies and processes for supporting vocational and technical learning in post-16 education in England. In England, this sector of education consists of a range of levels and types of provision in both public and private providers of further, adult and continuing vocational and skills based learning. The analysis c...

We came with £3 in our pocket but with hard work and Waheguru's kirpa [God's blessing] we are now playing in millions [lakhan wich khailde haan]. The above quote from an 81-year-old Sikh woman encapsulates the essence of the research reported in this article. The study focuses on factors that have contributed to the socio-economic success and relat...

In the turbulent ‘dog eat dog’ environment of the learning and skills sector in England the provision and expansion of higher education taught in further education colleges (HE in FE) offers potential opportunities for greater diversification of higher education. However, it also presents significant challenges, which include developing an HE cultu...

Sikhs are a very visible and successful minority ethnic group in Britain but research which analyses and documents their experience is limited. This study led by a female researcher who shares the trajectories of families who came to settle in Britain in the 1960s provides a bilingual, bicultural analysis of the experiences and perspectives of thre...

This paper focuses on meanings and levels of ‘engagement’ with a minority ethnic group in Britain. It uses examples from a study of Sikh families that have successfully combined different forms of capital to achieve quite phenomenal material success since they arrived as economic migrants in the 1960s. Sikhs are a very visible and successful minori...

With over 40 spoken tongues in Kenya, English serves as a language of instruction in schools and is taught from the onset of schooling, making the language a significant factor in academic achievement and subsequent social mobility. This article draws on a case study conducted in an urban multilingual primary school in Kenya and focuses on the chal...

In teacher education, as in other areas of higher education, there is increasing emphasis on working in collaboration with international partners in a range of activities, including joint development of courses, curriculum enrichment through staff and student exchanges and collaborative research. These activities provide exciting developmental oppo...

In teacher education, as in other areas of higher education, there is increasing emphasis on working in collaboration with international partners in a range of activities, including joint development of courses, curriculum enrichment through staff and student exchanges and collaborative research. These activities provide exciting developmental oppo...

Reading is an essential method of gaining knowledge and information for a variety of purposes including social, educational, cultural and vocational/professional. For many people, reading also involves translating information into their own language and thus adds a further dimension to the complexities of understanding the information that they rea...

This chapter considers the policy and practice of partnership working amongst educational organisations and related service providers as a means of promoting social inclusion in higher education (HE). It draws on an empirical study of partnership working in an area of England which has low levels of participation in HE, consistently performs poorly...

Introduction This chapter considers the policy and practice of partnership working among educational organisations and related service providers as a means of promoting social inclusion in higher education (HE). It draws on an empirical study of partnership working in an area of England that has low levels of participation in HE, consistently perfo...

This article explores the provision and effectiveness of student support in higher education through a review of literature and a case study of the support available to students in one English post‐1992 university. Our investigation focuses on students’ awareness and experience of both university‐wide student support and guidance services and the m...

This paper discusses the role of trust and shared goals in relation to participation in inter‐organisational and multi‐agency partnerships. It draws on a study of partnership working in England and focuses in particular on the perspectives of senior managers of post‐16 education and training providers with substantial experience of working in local...

This article presents an analysis of the policy rhetoric of partnership and the reality of the process of partnership working using data from a qualitative case study of a sub-regional partnership. The purpose of the partnership is to widen participation in post-16 learning in the Black Country, a part of the Midlands in England. Data collected thr...

This article explores the experience of adult learners and their perceptions of learning using computer-based learning materials, mainly Learndirect packages. The findings are based on focus group interviews with learners in a range of settings, including centres in community-based organisations, further education colleges and private training prov...

This thesis examines the concept and practice of partnership in the context of post-16 learning. The study explores the process of partnership working through a qualitative case study of a sub-regional partnership that aims to widen participation in post-16 learning through its collaborative activities. The investigation seeks to learn about the ba...

Knowledge, information and communication are crucial for organizational eþ ectiveness and key to the ability of the organization to respond to change. This article reports on the ® ndings of a research and developmental project in a modular multi-campus university focusing on improving the quality of information to students and other users. The res...

Knowledge, information and communication are crucial for organizational eþ ectiveness and key to the ability of the organization to respond to change. This article reports on the ® ndings of a research and developmental project in a modular multi-campus university focusing on improving the quality of information to students and other users. The res...

Whilst there are different types of benchmarking, this article, as a result of our research into TESOL (Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages), argues for a type of benchmarking that we call generic benchmarking to help develop quality education. The term generic is used to indicate that this type of benchmark is drawn from a detailed...

Knowledge, information and communication are crucial for organizational effectiveness and key to the ability of the organisation to respond to change. This article reports on the progress of a research and developmental project in a modular multi-campus university focusing on improving the quality and communication of information to students and ot...

GRAHAM GIBBS (Ed. ), 1995 Oxford: Oxford Centre for Staff Development, Oxford Brookes University 544 pp., ISBN 1 873576 43 9 (pb), £ 22. 95

This paper explores aspects of the experience of lecturers on an in‐service teacher training programme at the University of Wolverhampton. The progress of a group of 12 students was tracked from September 1993 to June 1995. Their experience was investigated to gain some insight into how learners approach and progress through a competence‐based prog...

This article was first published in the Wolverhampton Intellectual Repository and E-Theses (WIRE). There is no printed version. The aim of this small-scale study is to explore the effectiveness of the support available to students registered for programmes of study in the School of Education. This includes the provision of university-wide student s...