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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?

Although it has always been significant, the question of what we are educating for is now particularly important. There is growing consensus that the educational challenges we face require...

The complexity of the relations between policy, research and practice in primary education

I would like to believe that our national policymakers for primary school education seek out the relationship between policy, research and practice. I’d like to think that to achieve this they...

Engaging with educational policy in difficult times

In December 1987, Secretary of State for Education Kenneth Baker summed up the purpose of the Education Reform Bill as ‘standards, freedom and choice’. Underpinning the bill was the belief...

Editorial: What are we educating for? Introducing the BERA Blog Special Issue

This BERA Blog special issue started out as a seminar series in which we brought together policymakers, educational practitioners and researchers to discuss what we are educating for across the...

What are we educating for? Education policymaking in England

Education represents no less than our vision of society, and the people in it. It represents values. How education policy is made tells us about whose values are prioritised, what sources of...

Is there value in this proposed mechanism for expert policy advice in education?

This blog post is based on a recent article published in the British Educational Research Journal entitled ‘Towards a mechanism for expert policy advice in education’ (Skerritt, 2023). The...

Beyond the hype: The practical and ethical implications of generative AI in education

Artificial Intelligence in educational research and practice

Imagine a world where a machine could offer students personalised feedback, generate new content tailored to their needs, or even predict their learning outcomes. With the rapid emergence of...

Guest editing opportunity for Research Intelligence, issue 159

The future of academic publishing

BERA–Emerald book series: First four books announced and call for proposals

Updated: 6 March 2024 We are delighted that BERA is working in partnership with Emerald Publishing to launch a new series of books, titled The BERA Guides: Critical insights into educational...

L2 proficiency, age of L2 acquisition, and working memory: Evidence from Mandarin–English bilingual students

Working memory (WM) is a limited-capacity mechanism that temporarily stores information in the mind and manipulates it when it is no longer perceptually present (Cowan, 2008). WM abilities have...

Primary school exclusion: The erosion of care in a performance-focused education system

Up until the Covid-19 pandemic, the number of children being excluded from primary school had been steadily rising (DfE, 2022). Now that schools are again operating as ‘normal’, those...