Professor Jeremy Higham
Professor of Post-14 Education Policy and Curriculum
Tel: +44 (0)113 3434689
Fax: +44 (0)113 3434541
Room: HP 2.15
Email: j.j.s.higham@leeds.ac.uk
Visiting Professor at Queen's University, Canada
Interests
- Post-14 education and training policy
- Curriculum innovation and change
Director of the Post 14 Research Group
Director of national evaluation and research projects
- Changing the 14-19 school curriculum in England: lessons from successive reforms (ESRC)
- National Evaluation of 14-19 Pathfinders (DfES/LSC)
- Constructing a New Curriculum: the Rise of GNVQ's (ESRC)
- Evaluation of IPAS (Becta/DfES)
- Subject Identity and Curriculum Change
- Vocational Projects in the 'Education Departments' Superhighways Initiative' (NCET)
- Assessment and Learning in GNVQ's (DFEE)
- SITE IT (DFE)
- Satellites in Schools Initiative (WOED)
- Video Conferencing Support for Rural SMEs (DFEE)
Co-director or project member of other major research projects including:
- Vocational Specialisms in Specialist Schools (SSAT)
- 16-19 Curriculum Policy and Provision
- Monitoring Academic Achievement Post-16
- The Specialist Schools Programme
- The Impact of the Specialist Schools Programme (DFEE)
- Evaluation of the Independent/State Schools Partnership Scheme (DFEE)
- School Specialisation and Diversification in New Zealand
- Evaluation of Improving Work Experience in GNVQ projects (DFEE)
- Evaluation of Rochdale MBC TVEI. (RMBC)
- Evaluation of the Leeds Community Partnership Education Action Zone (Leeds Education 2000)
- ICT and Measures of Attainment (Becta)
- Interactive Multimedia for NVQ Language Standards (DoE)
- Multimedia techniques and the Development of Learning and Teaching Skills
- Evaluation of the 'Virtual Classroom Project' (DFEE)
Research supervision
I am currently supervising eight doctoral students and welcome enquiries from those sharing my research interests, particularly in curriculum for 14-19 year-olds.
Selected Publications
PAPERS
Higham J.J.S. and Yeomans, D.J. (2009). "Working Together? Partnership approaches to 14-19 education in England". British Educational Research Journal, iFirst, 1-23. Read Abstract.
Higham, J.J.S. and Yeomans, D.J. (2007). "Curriculum choice, flexibility and differentiation 14-19: the way forward or flawed prospectus?". London Review of Education, 5 (3), 281-297. Read Abstract.
Higham, J.J.S. (2003). "Curriculum Change: a study of the implementation of general national vocational qualifications". The Curriculum Journal, 14(3), 317-340. Read Abstract.
Higham, J.J.S., Sharp, P.R., Machin, D. and Wilson, M. (2002). "Managing Improvement in the 16-19 Curriculum through Student Monitoring and Target Setting: a critical evaluation". Journal of Educational Administration and History, 34(10), 36-50. Read Abstract.
Higham, J.J.S., Sharp, P.R., Machin, D. and Wilson, M. (2001). "Academic progress in the 16-19 curriculum: some senior staff perceptions of current monitoring systems and operational procedures". The Curriculum Journal, 12(1), 59-80. Read Abstract.
Priestley, M., Higham, J.J.S., Sharp, P.R. (2000). "Local Innovation or Government Initiative? Curriculum Specialisation in New Zealand’s Education Quasi–Market". New Zealand Journal of Educational Studies, 35(1), 61-78. Read Abstract.
Higham, J.J.S., Sharp, P.R. and Priestley, M. (2000). "Developing Diversity through Specialisation in Secondary Education: comparing approaches in New Zealand and England". Compare, 30(2), 145-162. Read Abstract.
BOOKS
Higham, J.J.S. & Yeomans, D. J. (2009). "The Evaluation of the Applied Learning Specialist Schools: Final Report". London: SSAT.
Higham, J.J.S. and Yeomans, D.J. (2008). "An Interim Report on the Evaluation of the Applied Learning Specialism Programme: Case Study Visits 2007-2008". London: SSAT.
Higham, J.J.S. and Yeomans, D.J. (2007). "Evaluation of the Vocational Specialist Schools Programme: Annual Report 2007". London: SSAT.
Higham, J.J.S. and Yeomans, D.J. (2006). "Emerging Provision and Practice in 14-19 Education and Training". London: DfES.
Higham, J.J.S. and Yeomans, D.J. (2005). "Collaborative Approaches to 14-19 Provision". London: DfES.
Extended list of publications.
This page last updated by Jeremy Higham on 2nd November 2009