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BERA & the British Curriculum Forum to fund £12,000 of school based research
The BCF Curriculum Investigation Grant is intended to support research led by schools and colleges with a focus on curriculum inquiry and investigation. In response to the call for 2018/2019 applications we received a record number of proposals. We are pleased to announce that in response to the 2018/2019 call BERA and the […]
Read moreJoin BERA for 2019 and get the rest of the year free
A new special offer on BERA membership is now live: Join BERA today as a 2019 member and receive the rest of 2018 completely free – that’s 16 months of membership for the price of 12 months! BENEFITS OF MEMBERSHIP Discounted registration at our annual international BERA conference and other events throughout the year Membership of […]
Read moreReview of Education Editors’ Choice Award 2018
The editorial team of the Review of Education (RoE) and BERA and are pleased to announce the winners of the 2018 RoE Editors’ Choice Award, which recognises articles published across the previous calendar year (2017). All four winning and commended articles are now free-to-view until the end of August. The recipients of this year’s RoE […]
Read more2019 BERA Masters and Doctoral Awards Now Open
Every year BERA recognises academic excellence and rigour in research by a Masters of Education student and a Doctoral student. This underscores BERA’s commitment to developing capacity, advancing quality and methodological originality within the field of educational research. Eligibility Criteria The applicant should be a be fully paid up member of BERA at the time of nomination […]
Read moreBERJ Editors’ Choice Award 2018
The editorial team of the British Educational Research Journal (BERJ) and BERA and are delighted to announce the winners of the 2018 BERJ Editors’ Choice Award, recognising articles published across the previous calendar year (2017) The recipients of this year’s BERJ Editor’s Choice Award are: George Leckie and Harvey Goldstein, for ‘The evolution of school […]
Read moreA baseline without basis: The validity and utility of the proposed reception baseline assessment in England
A new report from an expert panel convened by BERA sets out the case against the government’s proposal to use a baseline assessment test of pupils in reception to hold schools in England to account for the progress that pupils have made at the end of key stage 2. The panel concludes that the government’s […]
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