BERA Insights

2010 saw the launch of Insights - a series of occasional publications targeted at non-specialist audiences. The first two, on violence in schools and schools and social inequality, are available free to download (see below).

We have more issues in the pipeline on supplementary schools, the use of games consoles in the classroom and inequality and the home learning environment

Insight 1: Violence in Schools: what is really happening?
By Jane Brown and Mandy Winterton of the University of Edinburgh

• The Report (PDF 497kb)
• The Bibliography (PDF 215kb)

Insight 2: Social inequality: can schools narrow the gap?
Edited by Kirstin Kerr and Mel West

• The Report (PDF 423kb)
• The Bibliography (PDF 204kb)