The BERA Blog was established in 2015 to provide research-informed content on key educational issues in an accessible manner.
The place of ‘knowledge’ in the school curriculum is highly contested. Schools Minister Nick Gibb recently claimed that in the thousands of lessons he has observed, knowledge is ‘relegated...
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The existing research indicates a need for flexible psychosocial strengths based tool well suited to working with children and adults who have had traumatic or difficult life histories. The Tree...
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Prison education has been high on the Government’s reform agenda recently, with Michael Gove bringing a focus on the area to the Ministry of Justice from the Department for Education and...
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The School Direct Research Project undertaken by a team of academics from Manchester Metropolitan University concludes five years of research into the effects of school–led training on the...
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I don’t remember ever seeing a group of famous ex-alumni in the news protesting against cutbacks to their former schools’ funding, yet in the case of further education (FE) in England, a...
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The first issue of the journal History of Education, published in 1972, was notable for the contributions of distinguished figures in the history of education itself and of social history more...
Continue reading blog postWhite Papers are unusual nowadays. Usually Secretaries of State rush too hastily to legislation which, in consequence of the haste, creates new and unforeseen problems. the Secretary of State...
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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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