Writing Histories of Education in the Brexit Era
This event has now been postponed. To be kept up to date of the new date please email events@bera.ac.uk. Within history of education, as in many other fields of academic research, transnational...
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Five ways in which Edu-exit was the test run for Brexit
Brexit is the current and incredibly dangerous version of the ongoing and deeply rooted restructuring of UK health, welfare, security, and education services. Comparing the UK government reforms...
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Social mobility and education; opportunities and constraints in post Brexit Britain
It is now a tired old panacea, operating as a very inadequate sticking plaster over the gaping wound social inequalities have become in the post-Brexit landscape Theresa May told her new...
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Agency and Structure: Towards a New Paradigm for Social Mobility in Post-Brexit Britain
I want Britain to be a place where advantage is based on merit not privilege; where it's your talent and hard work that matter, not where you were born, who your parents are or what your accent...
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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...
Reclaiming communities after the Brexit vote
In the aftermath of the Brexit vote, the divide between the south and the north, the disarray in government, and the uncertainty of what will happen in the future need to be considered from a...
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BREXIT – initial thoughts on effects on our schools
Alea iacta est, the die is cast! With 5am last Friday morning it was obvious that a majority (51.9%) of the UK electorate had voted for BREXIT. By lunchtime it was clear what BREXIT means for the...
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First thoughts on Brexit
So the country has voted to leave the EU. The results show we are split on the issue, by region, by age and by economic prosperity. If early reporting is right, and 70% of the young voted to stay...
Continue reading blog postHow a tertiary education system could transform access and progression: Learners need diverse routes, not just the high jump
The 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;...
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What are we educating for in higher education?
It might have been easier to identify the purpose of higher education in the early part of the 20th century, when the few students who went to university came from a narrow demographic background...
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A ‘race and education’ film club: New reflexive possibilities
In England, as with so many settings around the globe, researchers have long-debated how concepts of racism interplay with education, whether at the systemic or classroom level (see for example...
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The un-decolonisation of the HE curriculum in the UK: How representative are the current reading lists in education graduate programmes?
The Global South is inhabited by roughly 75 per cent of the world’s population; it is expected that this number will increase to almost 88 per cent by the year 2100 (Solarz & Wojtaszczyk, 2015)....
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