The 2017 UK general election has thrown up many interesting aspects, but if he had been elected, Jeremy Corbyn would have been just the 4th prime minister since 1945 to not be an Oxbridge...
As technology has become increasingly integrated into all aspects of university teaching, the tools and strategies available to support assessment have increased and evolved. Despite these...
Work-related learning, whereby a student has the opportunity to undertake a project or work alongside staff in an organisation, is encouraged and recommended in many publications even if they are...
The proportion of students from disadvantaged backgrounds going to ‘elite’ universities in England has remained worryingly flat in the past decade, despite millions of pounds being invested...
Getting students to engage with subjects which have a reputation as being inaccessible or difficult is a constant challenge many teachers face, whether at school or in higher education. This...
For years, I had been running workshops in which I asked university teachers to reflect on their most powerful learning experiences, drawing out key principles of learning. We then compared...
It is the case that, within primary and secondary education, pupils from some BME backgrounds are more likely to be excluded from school than White pupils (EHRC 2010, 2015). Some groups of Black...
One of the most striking characteristics of the post-compulsory education sector in England is the teaching of programmes with a vocational route to work. There is a tenacious underlying...
I’m currently reviewing some guidance as to how to make lecturing notes/teaching materials as accessible as possible. It is, of course, important to be as accessible to all as possible, but I am...
Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk for details of how to register onsite.This BERA Higher Education SIG event provides the...
Whatever your thoughts about the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF), the higher education initiative proposed by Jo Johnson and open to consultation, it is an opportunity to focus on what should...
Theorising student transition Transition is replete within the human world. That is as much to say that it is impossible to entirely ‘stand still’. From one day to the next, one place to...