Measuring and making impact through research into professional learning

In pondering how best to approach the task of writing this editorial, I took the opportunity to peruse some of the very earliest editorials written for the journal in the mid to late 1970s, when it was called the British Journal of In-Service Education. What struck me was that while some of the terminology has changed and the context and reach of the journal have undoubtedly widened, the issues being raised by the then editors bear striking similarity to issues concerning us now, in early 2013.