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Our history lessons are never just a straight-forward account of the past. They are based on carefully constructed ideas which shape our sense of who we are and how we understand our place in the worl...

Bridging divides: lessons in cross-nation collaboration from the PolicyWISE roundtables. In a time of shifting power dynamics, widening regional disparities, and voting volatility, how can the nations...

Join Darren McGarvey, social commentator and author of Poverty Safari, The Social Distance Between Us and The Trauma Industrial Complex (out in August), alongside OU academics to discuss the causes of...

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Watch the Webinar: "A More Collaborative Form of Governance? UK Intergovernmental Relations and the Council of Nations and Regions." You can now watch the recording of our recent webinar, which explored new research calling for a step change in UK Intergovernmental Relations through the Council of the Nations and Regions. We discussed a new model of collaborative governance, the purpose and remit of the Council, the English dimension, and international examples of good intergovernmental relations. Our panellists, and report co-authors, were: Dewi Knight (PolicyWISE, The Open University) Professor Michael Kenny and Alex Walker (The Bennett Institute for Public Policy at the University of Cambridge) The event was chaired by Catherine May (PolicyWISE, The Open University), and took place live on the 13th of May.

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The latest Wise in 5 briefing from PolicyWISE reveals a patchwork of voting rights for 16 and 17-year-olds across the UK and Ireland. While young people can vote in devolved elections in Scotland and ...

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There have been rumours, leaks and hints of what will be in the Chancellor’s statement on Wednesday morning, and it seems to be so far, so glum – cuts, increased need for defence spending and an ever-...

A new Wise in 5 briefing is published today highlighting disparities in language education policies for refugees and migrants across the UK and Ireland. Wise in 5: Language Education for Refugees and ...

“Whatever is given – Can always be re-imagined.” Seamus Heaney’s words about creation, inheritance and imagination, might not seem an obvious starting point for a comparative policy blog.

Whether you think small is beautiful. Or the bigger the better. We know that size matters, right? Well, wrong actually. Especially when it comes to smaller class sizes in schools. You might think it’s...

Whether you think small is beautiful. Or the bigger the better.

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