The BERA Blog was established in 2015 to provide research-informed content on key educational issues in an accessible manner.
Budget planning in schools is like navigating a ship through unpredictable seas, awash with rising costs, fluctuating pupil numbers and financial vulnerability. All schools must balance resources...
Continue reading blog postThis BERA Blog special issue examines possible futures for tertiary education in England and the challenges that are faced by policymakers, institutional leaders, educators and researchers in...
Continue reading blog post‘Tertiary’ is a wide-ranging term used increasingly by policymakers and commentators as a panacea for a future post-16 education and training system in England (Hazelkorn, 2023). What could...
Continue reading blog postA ‘seamless’ system (Bathmaker et al., 2008), that integrates further and higher education under one umbrella, and brings together vocational, professional and academic education and training,...
Continue reading blog postEngland’s move towards an integrated tertiary education system presents an opportunity to radically redesign post-compulsory education. Rather than an elite system of education that is founded...
Continue reading blog postThe idea of a unified ‘tertiary education’ is gaining increasing prominence in UK education and training (E&T) policy discourse. In the language of international development organisations...
Continue reading blog postEducation and training (E&T) and research and innovation (R&I) are core pillars of tertiary education. This blog post explores the intrinsic interconnection between E&T and R&I, the fragmentation...
Continue reading blog postThe Labour Party is in government again and education underpins its opportunity mission. Policy appears to be focused on curriculum, assessment and inspection reform in schools (see DfE, 2024;...
Continue reading blog postThe latest government Skills England report highlights the fragmentation of post-compulsory education as a significant challenge. Deep divisions persist between higher education, further education...
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