This great space is to mobilise and energise affirming educational responses for boys and young men - TBS team will be there Dr Alex Blower Mary Curnock Cook Andy Hamilton Centre for Youth Research & Dialogue

The call for abstracts for our 2024 Boys' Impact Conference is now open! If you work with young working-class men to support them on their journey toward a happy, healthy future, we'd love to hear from you.

Please rt/share 🙂

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Our Southampton Social Mobility Network photography exhibition is being made a permanent fixture on University of Southampton Highfield Campus.

Big strides in increasing visibility of the University's working class students and staff!

And you can read about the exhibition here:

leathersellers.co.uk/story/class-ce…

Boy trouble: why dads are key to closing the gender education gap. Our latest blog ⁦Men & Boys Coalition⁩ ⁦Professor Ben Hine⁩ ⁦Dr Alex Blower⁩ Helen Norman⁩ #takingboysseriously fatherhoodinstitute.org/post/boy-troub…

Crucial funding for early years providers to support disadvantaged children has fallen since 2017/18⬇️

The next government should reinstate this funding to previous levels and review the early years pupil premium to ensure disadvantaged children get the support they need.

My 'Amalgamated Masculinities' article has finally got a 'physical' home 😀. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

3-weeks to go until the The BSA regional event University of Derby exploring social mobility!

I've been speaking to some of our fantastic speakers such as Dr Alex Blower, Lisa Mckenzie, S.H.E.D - Designing Dialogue CIC & Pauline The Traveller Movement

Event is free but booking is essential! 👉 britsoc.co.uk/events/key-bsa…

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Join Gypsy, Roma and Traveller creatives for an evening of celebration at the British Library tomorrow! 📚🎶

From filmmakers, to poetry and music, there will be something for everyone.

⏰When: 9 April 2024 at 7pm

More: …hlibraryculturalevents.seetickets.com/event/writersm…

Heartening to see signs of the debate about addressing masculinity and misogyny in schools shifting in a more equitable direction. National Education Union Worcestershire
National Education Union

'Boys and young men need guidance – not punishment – to avoid ‘manosphere’, teacher tells NEU'

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Am all for the outrage about this potential Govt. decision

HOWEVER if arts orgs keep employing/giving roles to Oxbridge grads who studied non-creative subjects*, you can see why Govt. thoughts/decisions informing by careers data.

*(how many Classics grads orgs need?!)

Do you want to understand more about the social class divide in education in our city?
Class Divide are building a teachers network and would love you to join. Find out more and show your interest here:
classdivide.co.uk/news/we-are-bu…

💬 'Degree apprenticeships are not being used as a tool for social mobility in the way they really could be.'

Degree apprenticeships can be a great vehicle for social mobility.

But the government needs to do more to open up them up to people from all backgrounds ⤵️

I think the articulation of the challenge here from Dr Alex Blower is really helpful - WP practitioners may not (don't) have all the answers to GCSE attainment raising but universities can (and as civic institutions arguably should?) play a meaningful role in this space.

I'm officially signed up for the J of Youth Studies conference. I'm looking forward to discussing the education part of my PhD and giving my presentation entitled, 'You need them, you mad head': Working-Class Young Men's Attitudes Towards Education and Schooling.
ulster.ac.uk/conference/jou…

“Rather than imposing a set of outcomes to measure impact of ‘successful attainment raising’, conversations turn instead to interventions which support school attendance, improve attitude to learning and reduce instances of internal exclusion.” Dr Alex Blower Higher Education Policy Institute…