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	Education Policy-Making Bodies: CVCP; DfEE; FEDA; Government; Government web pages search engine; Government's Lifelong Learning Site; Labour Party Website; etc
	Funding and Regulatory Agencies: EdExcel; FEFC; HEFCE; OFSTED; QAA; QCA; TTA; ILT; etc
	Policy advisory bodies, Policy-related foundations and quangos: PSI; EOC; Rowntree; etc
	Sites for On-Line Discussion: Dejanews; Kovaks; Mailbase and JISCMail; Meeting Room; Mirandanet; Teachernet etc
	On-Line Information: American education statistics; BBC Education; Clickable map of HE institutions; Digital Education Network; Education On-Line; EdUK; Eurydice; HESA; Skillnet; Sociological Research On-Line; TES; THES; Other Newspapers; UCISA; University of Central Lancashire Library; Upmystreet.com; Virtual Teachers' Centre; Journals on-line etc
	Sites for More Links: The Biz; BUBL; CampusConnect; ERIC Clearinghouse; NISS; SOSIG; Sociological Tour Through Cyberspace; Yahoo Social Science etc;
	Bibliographical Searching On-Line: Amazon; The British Library Search Page; COPAC; The electric library; OVID (for BIDS and ERIC); UnCover; ERIC; etc.
	Links for Educational Researchers: Data Archive, University of Essex; Regard; Scout; OVID (for BIDS); BERA; ERIC Clearinghouse; UnCover; Electronic journals; Data archives; ESRC and other funders; SRHE; NFER; UNESCO; ResearchWare etc); etc.
	Education Publishers' Web Sites: Routledge; Taylor and Francis/Falmer; Carfax; Kogan Page; Longman; Open U Press; Cassell; Sage; Triangle; Jossey-Bass; HMSO; etc
	Sites to help students: with study skills; with funding
	Substantive Areas of Education: Assessment and Evaluation; Comparative education; Education and Training in the UK, an overview; SOSIG's List of Education-Related Links; Argus Clearinghouse on Education; Information and Communication Technology in Higher Education; Nottingham Trent University Learning and Teaching Centre; KISS of the Panopticon; The Media Studies Home Page and other mass media sites; ethnicity in higher education

	Education Policy-Making Bodies
	GOVERNMENT This is the website from which a large range of information about government activities can be accessed. There is a very useful search engine here which will locate documents and information on a huge range of issues.
	The Government web pages search engine. Access to House of Commons research papers may also be useful. The new Official Documents site is very useful too and it includes a search engine.
	DfEE This is the Department for Education and Employment's website. league tables, OFSTED reports etc are available here. Primary and secondary school performance tables from the DfEE
	CVCP This is the home page of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals.
	Labour Party Web Site Many of the Labour Party's policy documents and other useful information can be obtained here, including details of education policy.
	Government's Lifelong Learning Site This site gives information on a variety of policy initiatives concerning lifelong learning in the UK.
	FEDA This is the Further Education Development Agency's web site. This contains details and text of their publications and other useful information about further education.

	Funding and Regulatory Agencies
	HEFCE This is the home page of the Higher Education Funding Council for England. A list of universities which have had departments quality assessed can be found here. There are links from there to the full reports.
	EdExcel This is the home page of Edexcel: the 'foundation for educational excellence'. It is an amalgation of BTEC and London Examinations, one of the examination boards. A range of information about training and development and examinations, among other things, is available here.
	OFSTED This is the home page of the Office for Standards in Education. OFSTED reports on specific schools can be downloaded from here.
	Further Education Funding Council
	Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA)
	QAA This is the home page of the Quality Assurance Agency whose role is to retain the confidence of the public in the quality and standards of higher education.
	Teacher Training Agency: an increasingly important body in the teaching profession!
	Institute for Learning and Teaching: Accredits university teachers

	Policy advisory bodies, Policy-related foundations and quangos
	The Policy Studies Institute. The Policy Studies Institute is an independent research organisation, undertaking studies of social and economic policy.
	The Equal Opportunities Commission.
	The Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

	Sites for On-Line Discussion
	Mailbase This site has now (largely) moved to JISCMail This is the site at which you can get information about a wide range of academic discussion groups, and join them if you wish. This also provides a valuable archive of discussions which is searchable by keywords (a valuable facility which is sometimes overlooked in discussion groups, though not all servers provide such an archive).
	Teachernet UK Provides a forum for teachers
	Kovacs directory of scholarly and professional e-conferences. You can search by keyword for discussion lists in the area you want or there is an alphabetical listing: there are several substantive areas of education (computer assisted learning, special needs etc). Another example of this sort of directory is Liszt, searchable by keyword.
	Dejanews. You can use the 'news' function of your web browser or dedicated news reader software to read discussions in appropriate newsgroups. DejaNews alllows you to search newsgroup archives for key words. If you want general discussion in a particular area you can use the 'find' function to search for groups in the field you are interested in (there is an education research group, for example). Be aware though that the standard of discussion will be lower and more disparate than if you use Mailbase. Also some universities do not provide a 'news' function: check by using the newsreading function of your web browser accessible through the menu above.
	There are general discussion groups at eGroups, SmartGroups, and Yahoo Chat
	The Virtual Teachers Centre Meeting Room

	On-Line Information
	Education statistics for the USA can be accessed here
	BBC Education Site Lots of resources for teachers and schools
	Clickable map of HE Institutions in the UK, with a variety of information about/from them available
	The University of Central Lancashire library has lots of information about resources available including a very useful leaflet about resources for Education Studies students in particular.)
	DIGITAL EDUCATION NETWORK This is the home page of the Digital Education Network for information about courses available and on-line learning.
	EDUCATION ON-LINE On- line versions of conference papers and draft journal articles etc on a wide variety of education-related issues. There is a useful search facility too.
	Eurydice This is the information network on education in Europe website. It is rather overweight: very interested in form and less in function (no comment about European Union bureaucracy) but does give access to publications relevant to education in the Union as well as to a database on education systems in Europe. One of the most useful parts gives information about the European countries' education systems
	Education Policy.Org serves as a research guide for those wanting information about educational poliy in the USA
	The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA)A source of quantitative data about higher education in the UK plus links to other related sites.
	SKILLNET This is the DfEE's Skills and Enterprise Network on the web. It offers a considerable amount of information about vocational education and training.
	Sociological Research Online This is the site of an important ournal. Read it online or download and print off.
	TIMES HIGHER This is the web service of the Times Higher Education Supplement. You need to register to use quite a bit of this (registration may necessitate subscribing to the Times Higher.) There is an archive of articles which can be searched and accessed in full.
	TIMES ED This is the web service of the Times Education Supplement. There is an archive of articles which can be searched and accessed in full. A directory of other newspapers on-line, including the Guardian, Financial Times etc. can be found here. Ones likely to be of use include the electronic Telegraph, the Times and the Guardian.and Education Guardian.
	UCISA This is the website of the Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association. This contains much useful information about post-compulsory education and access to other websites, including a powerful search engine.
	Virtual Teachers' Centre Links to approved sites of interest to teachers
	Upmystreet.com to compare education (and other) for any postcode or area of the UK with the national average
	A directory of other newspapers on-line, including the Guardian, Financial Times etc. can be found here.
	The Electronic Journal Collection: journals published online in the education field and others. Catchword is an excellent site for accessing online journals on a range of topics. You need to download a free browser from the site in order to read the journals
	Catchword is an excellent site for accessing online journals if your site has a licence
	Infoplease gives access to information about lots of things, including education (albeit with an American bias)
	An extensive list of data sets available on-line is available here

	Sites for More Links
	A Sociological Tour Through Cyberspace An excellent set of links to sociology-related sites. Well worth a visit.
	SOSIG (pronounced 'sausage') is the gateway to a number of extremely useful social science resources. It has an excellent new search engine at http://sosig.ac.uk/harvester.html
	THE BIZ This allows you to search for details of institutions and other information to do with training and development in the UK
	NISS This is the NISS information gateway, for Schools, FE and HE funding bodies, libraries etc. So much there you need to explore it for yourself.
	BUBL BUBL stands for 'bulletin board for libraries'. It is, however, also of interest to the wider academic community. There are thousands of links to internet resources and services for all main subject areas. There are also abstracts and full texts of 220 current journals and newsletters.
	YAHOO SOCIAL SCIENCE The site for searching the web for social science materials
	The ERIC Clearinghouse for social science resources, including education. ERIC/ChESS is a component of ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center), the education information service supported by the U. S. Department of Education, the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, and the National Library of Education. You can search ERIC from a number of sites without registration by going here.
	This rather mixed German site has some interesting resources for emergent researchers

	Bibliographical Searching On-Line
	OVID A user-friendly way of searching ERIC and the British Education Index via the Bath Information Data Services (BIDS). The website of choice for identifying relevant articles which you can then read in your library or order by inter-library loan. The BIDS site gives access to a number of other databases too if you have a password. ERIC is an American bibliographical search service, the British Education Index is not!You need a BIDS password and ID to use this. To get this you need to use the ATHENS authentication procedure. This is done by accessing ATHENS at www.athens.ac.uk/ then clicking on the personal user accounts button at the bottom of the page, clicking next on create a personal account from an access account (self-registration), entering the username and password your institution gives you (usually from the library) then clicking on create a personal account. Here you choose your own username and password for BIDS and you must complete the account details. When you have completed the form click on submit details at the bottom of the page. You will now not only have access to OVID but other services on BIDS and elsewhere which include: Journals Online, Palmers Index to the Times, Periodical Contents Index and IDEAL. Great if your institution has a licence for passwords and you are interested in educational research, so well worth all the effort to set it up. You can search ERIC from a number of sites without registration by going here
	Amazon.co.uk is a great site to search for British books in print, while Amazon.com is the American version with an even bigger database of books to search. If you want you can buy your books from here, there are sometimes discounts. Postage is cheaper from the British Amazon site of course.
	British Library Search Page The British Library offers (of course) a massive collection of material and full details of something you are looking for will normally be found here. COPAC is extremely useful, particularly if you need to order books via inter-library loan
	The Electric Library and Hotbot's Research Search Engine An interesting page which allows you to search for text in a variety of types of source, gives you access to the electric library (but you have to register) and has links to researchpaper.com and encyclopaedia.com, both of which may be useful in researching essays etc.
	A number of sites to use ERIC without a password is listed here
	UnCover is a service for ordering academic and other articles (at cost). However it provides a good search facility too: around 7 million articles in 17,000 disciplinary journals. A similar service in the social sciences specifically is provided by Wilson Social Science.
	NISS: gateway to a number of higher education resources including university library web access (opacs).
	Catchword is an excellent site for accessing online journals if your site has a licence
	Education Information Center offers a useful search facility for recent articles in a variety of education-related areas (it is based in North Carolina)

	Sites for Educational Researchers
	Regard REGARD is a database of ESRC research awards and all associated publications and products There are abstracts, books, journal articles, broadcasts and software available. Researchers can search for topics of interest and find out what research is in progress.
	Scout Report for Social Sciences This American site helps researchers make effective use of the internet in their work and often includes useful information about education. Reports are sent fortnightly and can be sent by email too.
	OVID A user-friendly way of searching ERIC and the British Education Index via the Bath Information Data Services (BIDS). The website of choice for identifying relevant articles which you can then read in your library or order by inter-library loan. You need a BIDS password and ID to use this. To get this you need to use the ATHENS authentication procedure. This is done by accessing ATHENS at www.athens.ac.uk/ then clicking on the personal user accounts button at the bottom of the page, clicking next on create a personal account from an access account (self-registration), entering the username and password your institution gives you (usually from the library) then clicking on create a personal account. Here you choose your own username and password for BIDS and you must complete the account details. When you have completed the form click on submit details at the bottom of the page. You will now not only have access to OVID but other services on BIDS and elsewhere which include Journals Online, Palmers Index to the Times, Periodical Contents Index and IDEAL. Great if your institution has a licence for passwords and you are interested in educational research, so well worth all the effort to set it up.You can search ERIC from a number of sites without all this by going here
	BERA is the British Educational Research Association. The site contains details of contacts, events, publications, educational research assocations in other countries and other useful information for researchers
	SRHE This is the home page of the Society for Research into Higher Education. For eligible researchers the Society also gives access to HESA data (See details as the SRHE site). A list of Higher Education-related research sites is found here.
	British Psychological Association
	The Social Policy Association
	British Sociological Association: useful among other things for their guidelines, including ethical guidelines in conducting research
	Political Studies Association
	UnCover is a service for ordering academic and other articles (at cost). However it provides a good search facility too: around 7 million articles in 17,000 disciplinary journals.
	The Electronic Journal Collection: journals published online in the education field and others
	ESRC data archive which has a search facility called BIRON. This is quantitative but there is a qualitative data archive too.
	ESRC The Economic and Social Research Council. Other funders are: Leverhulme; Rowntree; the National Lottery Charities; and other UK fundraising opportunities for research. The Foundation Centre lists grant-making bodies in the USA.
	Data Archive, University Of Essex
	The ERIC Clearinghouse for social science resources, including education. ERIC/ChESS is a component of ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center), the education information service supported by the U. S. Department of Education, the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, and the National Library of Education. A particularly good option for searching ERIC is here.
	National Foundation for Educational Research This site contains information about the NFER and its work together with a list of publications and current research projects.
	Eurodata: Information about grants etc from the European Union. See also here
	Unesco publishes worldwide data on many educational issues
	Details of the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise from the HE funding bodies
	List of links for education statistics (largely N. American). Another useful Swedish list of resources for researchers is here. The USA government education department has some useful statistical information.
	ResearchWare publish the qualitative data analysis package HyperResearch. A demo version is available from this site plus some data to practise with. Demo copies of other data analysis packages are available from scolari. A still-not-quite-finished paper of mine on using this sort of software is available here. The US National Center for Education Statistics is a particularly valuable resource.
	Education Policy Analysis Archives: USA based on-line journal with search engine and browse facility
	United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD): Social Indicators data (including education)
	Data on the US education system from 'Pulse'.
	http://copac.ac.uk/copac/ is the site to check a large number of university library catalogues simultaneously
	International Sociological Research Association list of useful links
	Catchword is an excellent site for accessing online journals if your site has a licence. Sociology of Education journal, accessible for affiliated institutions via http://www.jstor.ac.uk/..Harvard Educational Review (full text)

	Educational Publishers' Sites
	Routledge
	Taylor and Francis/Falmer
	Carfax (with SARA, a free email service listing the contents of the next number of the carfax journals of your choice)
	Kogan Page
	Longman
	Open U Press
	Cassell
	Sage
	JAI
	Triangle. A particularly useful site because of the many journals here with abstracts
	Jossey-Bass
	Intellect
	Edwin Mellen Press
	Jessica Kingsley Publishers which has a higher education policy homepage.
	Anker Publishing.
	HMSO This is the page for details of HMSO publications.

	Substantive Areas of Education
	The ERIC Clearinghouse on assessment and evaluation
	European countries' educational systems
	Education and Training in the UK (from the DfEE website): a useful overview of the education and training system
	SOSIG's list of education-related links. Useful particularly because mostly British.
	Argus Clearinghouse - Education materials are listed and scored here - mostly American but some useful material for the UK too.
	Information and Communication Technology in Higher Education: the CTI website. BECTa is the website for information on Educational Communications and Technology in Britain, offering information on ICT (Information and Communications Technology) issues in curriculum, pedagogy, and policy-making. The Challenge 2000 site offers an array of materials and information related to Project-Based Learning employing multimedia See also the on-line journal Educational Technology & Society
	KISS OF THE PANOPTICON (KISS stands for keep it simple, stupid). This is a very useful site for anyone interested in postmodernism in general and the 'new media' in particular. There are details of many of the key authors in the field, short summaries of some of the key concepts such as 'identity' etc, all nicely linked together using the 'hypertext' facilities of web browsers. Try it.
	Nottingham Trent University's Centre for Learning and Teaching A useful site for those involved in teaching and learning in higher education with many useful links in addition to valuable material at the site itself.
	Mailbase This is the site at which you can get information about a wide range of academic discussion groups, and join them if you wish.
	Catalyst is the University of Washington's UWired Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology, Catalyst is an "integrated collection of resources, training, tools, templates, and support" to assist instructors who are implementing new educational technologies into their teaching. It's well put together and useful.
	The Theory Into Practice Database - descriptions of 50 educational theories related to human learning and instruction compiled by Dr. Greg Kearsley. There is an overview of each theory with outlines of its principles, scope and application. There are some video clips.
	Innovations in Teaching and Learning Website: an ESRC-funded project which has some interesting papers at this site on innovation and change in higher education
	Distance Learning Website
	Focus: learning and teaching using the web
	Ethnicity/Diversity in (North American) Higher Education

	Sites to help students
	A number of useful sites designed to help students improve their study skills can be found here;
	Sites which help locate funding for study are scholarship search and freefund