The BERA Blog was established in 2015 to provide research-informed content on key educational issues in an accessible manner.
Local education authorities have been a bulwark of Conservatism. They were established by Arthur Balfour’s Education Act in 1902. Their role in education was entrenched by Rab Butler’s 1944...
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Earlier this month, the IoE hosted a launch event for my new book, Research and Policy in Education: Evidence, ideology and impact, written with Jake Anders, Annette Hayton, Sarah Tang and Emma...
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One of the features of the school improvement landscape over the past two decades has been a focus on developing school leadership and how this leadership is used to empower teachers in the quest...
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In their excoriating analysis of The Blunders of our Governments, the political scientists Anthony King and Ivor Crewe offer twelve case studies, or 'horror stories', as they call them, from the...
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This blog is a good news story in terms of teacher collaboration from The Hermitage Academy, a North-East Teaching School. The Academy has deliberately and steadily built a culture of teacher...
Continue reading blog postBy now, many of us are probably starting to waver on our New Year's resolutions. In recent years, these have increasingly involved limiting our use of technology, the Internet and mobile phones,...
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WISERD Education has been exploring children’s responses to a single question: ‘If someone gave you £1 million today, what would you do with it?’ Although such an exploration might seem...
Continue reading blog postFollowing Teesside University’s successful social policy REF (Research Excellence Framework) submission I accepted a formal invitation to attend The Bremen International Graduate School of...
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The drive to measure teaching performance through observations and assessment in schools and the introduction of teaching excellence framework (TEF) at HEI has led educators to ask “where do we...
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