The BERA Blog was established in 2015 to provide research-informed content on key educational issues in an accessible manner.
The early years settings have a very strong influence on children’s future cognitive and social performance. The interactions and the activities in this area hold an important role in...
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The impact of globalisation on research ethics The ethical principles we draw on in UK Higher Education Institutions are Western-based traditions for moral action. However, on a practical level...
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Writing in the Daily Telegraph on 15th August 2015, David Cameron announced that every school in England should “have the opportunity to become an academy and benefit from the freedoms this...
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The initial motivation for my doctoral thesis emerged from my involvement in a programme for the implementation of Assessment for Learning (AfL) with Chilean teachers in partnership with the...
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It’s been a busy few years for the FE sector; in fact, I cannot recall a time of greater change during my professional career. Funding cuts have become commonplace in many areas of education,...
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Whatever your thoughts about the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF), the higher education initiative proposed by Jo Johnson and open to consultation, it is an opportunity to focus on what should...
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Pakistani children make-up a quarter of Birmingham’s school population and will soon become its largest pupil ethnic group. A large number of them leave the local schools each year without the...
Continue reading blog postThis Innovation Session that took place at BERA took the form of a workshop/masterclass in researching early childhood using visual methodologies, combining presentations, graffiti and Information...
Continue reading blog postTheorising student transition Transition is replete within the human world. That is as much to say that it is impossible to entirely ‘stand still’. From one day to the next, one place to...
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