BERA Statement on Close-to-Practice Research
BERA offers this statement to serve as a shared reference-point for high quality research, conducted within diverse research traditions, that shares the central aim of making a contribution to...
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BERA Bites, issue 1: Early childhood
The BERA Bites series presents selected articles from the BERA Blog on key topics in education, presented in an easily printable and digestible format to serve as teaching and learning resources...
BERA Bites, issue 2: Educational leadership: Are our schools fit for the future?
The BERA Bites series presents selected articles from the BERA Blog on key topics in education, presented in an easily printable and digestible format to serve as teaching and learning resources...
A baseline without basis: The validity and utility of the proposed reception baseline assessment in England
This report 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 those pupils...
Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research, fourth edition (2018)
This extensively revised, expanded and updated fourth edition of BERA's Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research is designed to support educational researchers in conducting research to the...
The European Educational Research Journal (EERJ)
The European Educational Research Journal (EERJ) is a peer-reviewed scientific journal interested in the changing landscape of education research across Europe. The EERJ publishes education...
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...
Free Schools and Disadvantaged Intakes
This study explores the proportion of socioeconomically disadvantaged children attending Free Schools. It considers the extent to which Free Schools appear to be taking an equal share of poorer...
UK Strategic Forum for Research in Education (SFRE) Final Report
The SFRE final report was published in July 2010 and can be found here. For other reports or SFRE-related material, please visit the archived website which is no longer maintained but is a...
Educational Capital and Generational Aspirations amongst British Asians
This study examines intergenerational dynamics amongst British South Asians regarding education and family life. It explores the perspectives of grandparents, parents and young people to...
How local communities influence the demand for Higher Education
It is well known that there are vast differences in the proportion of young people applying for university places from different locations. This ranges from 24% to 79% between local authority...
Schooling, Social Cohesion and ‘Britishness’
The study explored the politics of Britishness in a large culturally diverse English secondary school. It examined dominant view that social disharmony is connected with minority groups’...
