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Can employers and schools harness employer engagement to improve diversity and inclusion?

The call for diversity and inclusion has intensified in light of recent events of police racism in the United States, the death of George Floyd being the catalyst. Beyond the rhetoric of Black...

In Conversations with…Professor Paul Miller

In this episode of the BERA Podcast BERA Chief Executive Nick Johnson interviews Professor Paul Miller, the President of the Commonwealth Council for Educational Administration and Management...

Black History Month at BERA

In recent months the killing of George Floyd and the events that followed have prompted all of us to reconsider the nature of racial and ethnic discrimination and bias, and what both individuals...

How to improve the therapeutic experience for students of colour accessing wellbeing services

The reawakening of the social and political conversation around race and equality in these challenging times has upended my thinking on cross-cultural therapeutic engagement. I work as a faculty...

New formations of whiteness in education

This event has been postponed and a new date will be confirmed soon. #WhitenessinEducation Online event – pre-registration essential CRT (Critical Race Theory) and CWS (Critical Whiteness...

BAME Educators and Covid-19

This episode of the BERA Podcast features an interview with Allana Gay, the founder of the BAMEeD Network.

Allana Gay

Co-founder

Allana Gay is a Headteacher and founding member of BAMEed. Her experience as an educator and school leader arches over secondary and primary schools all of whom have been in challenging or...

Decolonising the History Curriculum: Examples of Theory, Research and Action

Registration for this event has now closed, please email events@bera.ac.uk to register.   #Decolonisingthecurriculum Online event – pre-registration essential The passionate...

Inverting empire: The use of global history to challenge exclusion in the English history curriculum

The death of African American George Floyd on 25 May, has been a catalyst for Britain to scrutinise its own issues with inequality relating to ethnicity. Featuring quite prominently in this...

Myth busting our curriculum: Enabling all to achieve

The island of Zanzibar where I was born was famous – or infamous – on two accounts: clove plantations and slavery. From the 17th century until 1909, spice plantations were worked by Black...

#BlackLivesMatter and racial justice in education: Contribute to a special series of the BERA Blog

The structural inequalities faced by Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities have been deepened by a decade of austerity. We are in the midst of a global pandemic and, following yet another...

Justifying curricular enrichment in performative times

Much has been written about the tendency to narrow the curriculum to focus on what counts in measurable terms in testing times. This effect is felt most acutely in schools servicing disadvantaged...