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International teaching opportunity for Scottish undergraduate primary teaching students

Globalisation has impacted education increasingly in recent years (Townsend, 2011) and internationalisation has been used within higher education as a concept to explore this (Luginbühl (2011)....

Sexual harassment and abuse in schools: re-stating the case for comprehensive sex and relationships education

In September 2016, the Women and Equalities Committee reported on the high level of sexual violence routinely experienced by young women in schools and the need for urgent action. The report...

Tender: Dimensions of quality in close-to-practice educational research

BERA wishes to commission a small scale research study examining the dimensions of quality in close-to-practice educational research. For the purposes of this project, close-to-practice research...

Spring 2017

Research Intelligence Issue 132 - Researching Marginalised Groups

The BERA/SAGE Handbook of Educational Research

The two-volume BERA/SAGE Handbook of Educational Research, published by SAGE in partnership with BERA, provides a comprehensive account of education research today.   The Handbook provides a...

Standards in ITT mentoring: there to be embraced

Ever worked with a teacher trainee mentor who is not up for it? Or, even worse, is not up to it? They might be the colleague with a light timetable that year, or who is looking for professional...

Creative Workers: Types of working and learning

The fear of high unemployment resulting from the increasing encroachment of digital technologies in people’s working lives is a topical debate. One group of workers that may be immune to this...

Teaching a job or a profession?

“ Teaching is the one profession that creates all other professions” According to Nelson Mandela “Education is the most powerful weapon which we can use to change the world” and Popik...

BERA Elections 2017

BERA is pleased to invite interested members to stand as candidates in the 2017 BERA Council Election.   The elections opened on 1 February 2017 and will close on 22 February 2017 at...

2017 BJET Fellowship – Nominations open

Applications are invited from members of BERA for the 2017 BJET Fellowship. The Fellowship will last for one year and the award of up to £5,000 will be made available to an individual with the...

PISA and international education assessments

This event is now fully booked. Please email events@bera.ac.uk to be placed on the waiting list. Large-scale international education studies, such as the OECD’s Programme for International...

Music education and social justice

Transformational Further Education: Empowering People & Communities

Music education and social justice was the subject of a symposium at the 2016 BERA conference. Entitled Social Justice and Music Education in England and Scotland, and the symposium reported on...