The BERA Blog was established in 2015 to provide research-informed content on key educational issues in an accessible manner.
Research has established that there is a connection between poverty and education, such that the poorer a child’s family, the less well they are likely to do in their education (Raffo et al.,...
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There are regular assertions in both the press and academic literature that the low take up of vocational education in England, relative to selected comparators, is because it has lower status...
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In marked contrast to European nations, the United States lacks any formal policy to spur youth participation. The United States is soon to become the only nation in the world that has not...
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Jo Johnson, the minister for higher education, has now published the government’s eagerly awaited Green Paper on the future of universities. It’s a long document, at almost 35,000 words. Most...
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A curriculum is a predetermined programme of learning and has three components: a set of aims and objectives which articulate the intended student achievements (what they know, what they can do...
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In their recent Research Intelligence article Cain and Hayward posed questions related to ways in which educational research might inform teaching and learning and the implications of ‘impact’...
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In 1986 Italian food journalist Carlo Petrini was walking through Rome with friends. On reaching the Spanish steps they were faced with a new addition to the city’s ancient architecture – A...
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“It is perhaps education’s equivalent to the search for the Holy Grail” commented Warwick Mansell on 23 September 2009. From here came the arrival of, for some people, an age of...
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In the light of the House of Commons Education Committee Inquiry into the purpose and quality of education, I’ve been pondering on the primary profession’s long-term goals for teaching reading...
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