In China, formal school groupings known as 'education collectives' have become one of the most common forms of school-to-school collaboration, promoted by policymakers to narrow the achievement gap between schools and optimise resource allocation. Previous research has focused on the purposes and achievements of education collectives rather than…

The year 2019 was proclaimed the year of astronomy literacy by the European Astronomical Union (EAU). Several countries around the world have now started to focus more on space and astronomy endeavours and have shaped their curriculum as a result. Therefore, the perceptions and views of secondary school pupils taking social studies courses on…

"A Dictionary of Contemporary Figurative Language" is meant to be an appendix to an earlier, more comprehensive work: ED648945, "A Dictionary and Thesaurus of Contemporary Figurative Language and Metaphor 2024." This appendix simply updates the dictionary of that previous work to better reflect the language used during the 2024…