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BERA Bites, issue 9: What are we educating for?

BERA Bites

This BERA Bites collection started out as a seminar series in which policymakers, educational practitioners and researchers came together to discuss what we are educating for across the English...

Sub-Saharan faces in Caucasian spaces: Black African international PhD students’ experiences in the UK

BERA Conference 2023

In the academic year 2020/2021, the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) documented a total of 605,000 international students who were enrolled in UK higher education institutions. Out of...

Spring 2024

Research Intelligence issue 158: Unheard voices: Language education outside the mainstream

Research Conversations on Identities in Doctoral Learning and Supervision

This was a joint event between the Higher Education SIG, Youth Studies and Informal Education SIG & Early Career Researcher Network. This event shared narratives of starting points and strategies...

The broken pillar: AI for feedback generation and the erosion of students’ trust

Artificial Intelligence in educational research and practice

Learning unfolds as a dialogue between a student and a more knowledgeable other – in higher education, a lecturer – a dialogue marked by mutual respect, responsibility and trust as the key...

Expert Panel on Educational Research Funding

Expert Panel update BERA’s Expert Panel on educational research funding is continuing its work. After some initial meetings, the panel revised its aims and also engaged a RA who worked with the...

British Educational Research Journal: Call for special issues (2024)

This opportunity is now closed. The incoming editors of the British Educational Research Journal (BERJ) intend to publish a number of special issues during their tenure, which commences in...

The role of in-person tutorials

The practices implemented in higher mathematics education are in a constant state of change, and where the research often lags the implementation. Recently, it has become evident that remote and...

One size does not fit all: Supporting dyspraxic students in higher education in England

Dyspraxia, also known as developmental coordination disorder (DCD), is a lifelong, neurodevelopmental disorder which affects an estimated 10 per cent of the UK population (Dyspraxia Foundation,...

Higher education disadvantage: Enhancing a community through modes of delivery

From a sociological perspective, Bourdieu (1986) sees cultural capital as non-economic resources such as education and knowledge, while social mobility is the ability to move up or down the social...

Teaching ‘policy analysis’ through a case-based approach in higher education: Context of Pakistan

Teaching a course on ‘policy analysis’ remains challenging for several reasons: drawing from multiple theoretical threads (Heck, 2004); relying mainly on ‘desk reviews’ of policies as...

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...