Oxford Education Research Symposium
We are pleased to invite you to the 9th Oxford Education Research Symposium. It will be held 7, 8 & 9 December at St Cross College, Oxford. The featured Keynote speaker will be Dr Ian Menter,...
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Are BME students more likely to be excluded from University than White students?
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...
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Is now the time to do away with ITE allocations?
When the initial teacher education (ITE) allocations for the 2017/18 were announced on 28 September, there was (if not joy) a measure of reassurance across the teacher education sector. The...
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Correcting the ‘Grammar’ in Social Mobility
In recognising Brexit as a game changer, Teresa May entered Number 10 Downing Street with a commitment to restore the fortunes of working families and to narrowing egregious inequalities in...
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Social Mobility and the Family
Social mobility has become an essential policy solution, an apparent panacea for inequality, injustice and unfairness (Hoskins & Barker, 2014). The idea of individuals transcending their...
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How realistic is social mobility?
We hear a lot about social mobility, especially during elections. Political parties and governments often use social mobility (alongside keywords such as opportunity, potential and justice) as a...
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Social mobility and education; opportunities and constraints in post Brexit Britain
It is now a tired old panacea, operating as a very inadequate sticking plaster over the gaping wound social inequalities have become in the post-Brexit landscape Theresa May told her new...
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Autumn 2016
ISSUE 131 OF RESEARCH INTELLIGENCE International Complexities Ethos of Internationalism Funding and Research After Brexit FEATURING ALIS OANCEA ELEANOR GURNEY GARY...
Agency and Structure: Towards a New Paradigm for Social Mobility in Post-Brexit Britain
I want Britain to be a place where advantage is based on merit not privilege; where it's your talent and hard work that matter, not where you were born, who your parents are or what your accent...
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The desire for knowledge
I came across this innocuous looking phrase in an interview with the French sociologist of education Bernard Charlot on the internet. He was quoting the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan to explain how...
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Exploring theories of change in education: determining when, how and why x leads to y?
This event is now fully booked. To be placed on the waiting list, please email events@bera.ac.uk. Chair/convenor: Richard Thurston, Deputy Chief Research Officer, Welsh Government Theory-based...
Are you an Educational Researcher living or working in Wales?
Following discussions in recent months and a successful conversation during the conference in Leeds, BERA is now undertaking a short survey to explore how we might support educational research in...