Business school applicants rate high on measures of narcissism and psychopathy. A scholar argues that character education could help change that.
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Disadvantaged pupils know what they’re missing when it comes to extra-curricular activities.
Apocryphal depictions of an unprecedented crisis in young people’s mental ill-health and their general vulnerability have been accompanied by increasingly alarmist claims that only schools can address…
Children’s character and well-being looks set to be a central education issue going into the 2015 general election. Getting out of the starting blocks in mid-December, Nicky Morgan, the secretary of state…
In the last few months the UK’s two main political parties have entered into an apparent bidding war over which of them can elevate the teaching of character highest on their educational agendas before…
Richard Walden, chairman of the Independent Schools Association, has claimed that state schools fail to provide pupils with a “moral compass” because of a relentless focus on exam results and league tables…
The issue of teaching character, which until now has mainly been debated within the ivory towers of academia, is suddenly all the rage in policy circles in the UK, in the wake of the report by the All-Party…
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Professor of Character Education and Virtue Ethics Deputy Director, Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, University of Birmingham
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Researcher in enhancing wellbeing, Cardiff Metropolitan University
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Professor of Education and Public Policy, Durham University
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Director of the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Education Research, School of Education, University of Birmingham
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Professor, Durham University
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Professor of Education, University of Sheffield
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Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, Ross School of Business, School for Environment & Sustainability, University of Michigan