Newnham College, Cambridge

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Name: Newnham College, Cambridge

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Jean Floud: Sociologist whose work revealed the impact of class on educational attainment

Jean Floud was an academic and leading educational sociologist who demonstrated the power of class in shaping educational achievement and in so doing aided the intellectual agenda for the abolition of the grammar school system. Something of a trailblazer ... [Published The Independent - May 15 2013]

Entities: Peter Floud, Newnham College, Cambridge, Westcliff-on-Sea

First reported Apr 30 2013 - Updated Apr 30 2013 - 1 reports

Jean Floud

, the former Principal of Newnham College, Cambridge, who has died aged 97, was a sociologist who studied the relationship between social class and educational opportunity and helped to set the intellectual agenda for the abolition of the grammar schools. ... [Published Telegraph - Apr 30 2013]

Entities: Peter Floud, MARTIN JEAN, Education, Newnham College, Cambridge

First reported Apr 03 2013 - Updated Apr 03 2013 - 1 reports

London School of Economics

Jean Floud obituary

Leading educational sociologist and academic who became the principal of Newnham College, CambridgeJean Floud, who has died aged 97, was one of Britain's leading educational sociologists. Her career was a triumph of brains, charm and presence over class ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Apr 03 2013]

Entities: Newnham College, Cambridge, London School of Economics, University of Oxford, Karl Mannheim

First reported Feb 22 2013 - Updated Feb 22 2013 - 1 reports

Newnham College, Cambridge

My blind spot, my students and me

Registered blind since birth, languages lecturer Hannah Thompson explains why she has only recently made her partial blindness an integral part of her teaching and research I have been registered blind all my life but because I have what opthalmologists ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Feb 22 2013]

Entities: Disability, Teaching, Newnham College, Cambridge

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...Floud argued that the educability of children "is determined by the subtle interaction of the social influences of home and school" . Education, Economy, and Society: A Reader in the Sociology of Education (1961, with Halsey and C Arnold Anderson) followed, which established Floud...

Jean Floud: Sociologist whose work revealed the impact of class on educational attainment [Published The Independent - May 15 2013]

Unwittingly following Toni Morrison's edict that "if there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it" , three writers set outout to compile an antidote to EL James's inescapable erotic tome, and at the same time prove that feminism comes in many forms...

Bookcase [Published Stourbridge News - Apr 13 2013]