Former BERA President honoured
Many congratulations to former BERA President John Furlong who received an OBE in the recent New Year's Honours. John received his award in recognition of his work on educational research and...
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Making the Case for the Social Sciences – Education
BERA has partnered with the Academy of Social Sciences and Routledge, Taylor & Francis to bring together a wide-ranging collection of impactful research on education that has improved standards of...
BCF-BERA Routledge Curriculum Journal Prize
This award is made annually and acknowledges the importance of collaborative work between schools and universities to support and encourage excellence in curriculum development. We are delighted...
AcSS Briefing – Making the best of Brexit: Supporting UK Science, Higher Education and Research for the Future
The Academy of Social Sciences and its Campaign for Social Science have published a briefing note addressing the consequences of the prolonged period of uncertainty in the three months since the...
Press Release – Vast differences in take-up of private tuition revealed
Primary school children in London are more than eight times as likely to have received private tuition as their counterparts in Scotland, research being presented to BERA today has revealed. Some...
Press Release – Children “can pass phonics test without extensive phonic knowledge”
The government’s assessment of early reading, taken by hundreds of thousands of five- and six-year-olds in England every year, is not testing what it is supposed to test, research has...
Royal Society and British Academy launch project to transform educational research in the UK
The Royal Society and British Academy are launching a project today (14 September 2016) to determine how best to harness new and up-to-date research methodologies, using the latest technologies,...
Press Release – Pupils left puzzled by the term “British values”
The concept of “British values”, as promoted by the government in its anti-terrorism strategy, is leaving many school pupils baffled. And few of them have even heard of the “Prevent”...
Press Release – Most teenagers “believe they have a soul”
More than half of secondary school pupils believe that people have souls, a survey has revealed. Almost as many – 45 per cent – say they believe in God while 52 per cent agree with the...
Press Release – British Empire study “prevalent in most schools”
The death of teaching of the British Empire in English schools has been greatly exaggerated. And, contrary to occasional assertions by politicians, children are not being given a negative account...
Press Release – Big difference between pupil and teacher perceptions of teaching revealed
Fewer than half of young secondary school pupils think their views are taken seriously by those educating them, a major new study has found. Perhaps unsurprisingly, almost all of their teachers...
BERA AGM Papers
The papers for the 41st BERA AGM are available to download from this page. As previously noted, the meeting takes place at 5pm on Monday 12th September in the Radisson Blu Hotel in Leeds.