Alea iacta est, the die is cast! With 5am last Friday morning it was obvious that a majority (51.9%) of the UK electorate had voted for BREXIT. By lunchtime it was clear what BREXIT means for the...
So the country has voted to leave the EU. The results show we are split on the issue, by region, by age and by economic prosperity. If early reporting is right, and 70% of the young voted to stay...
When I was at school in the 1960’s my class were not allowed to study history. Because I was in the bottom stream of a grammar school (that’s another story!), conventional history was...
23rd-24th June 2016 – Wellington College, BerkshireThe Telegraph Festival of Education brings together the very best of education’s most forward thinking advocates, practitioners of change and...
In one sense, of course, it has nothing to do with education – certainly not with schools. The EU referendum may be more important than a General Election but education policy is not a...
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. Keynote Lecture:Gary Brace has been Chief Executive of...
Tablets are coming to a school near you. Actually, they’re probably there already. In the UK alone, around ¾ of schools were using tablets in 2015, for over half of lesson time, according to...
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...
Editorial Board & International Advisory BoardThe new editors of BJET would like to invite members of the educational technology research community to join us to develop and strengthen this...
A new issue of Review of Education has been published, featuring:Steve Strand - Do some schools narrow the gap? Differential school effectiveness revisited R. A. Ellis and P. Goodyear - Models of...
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. The British Curriculum Forum (BCF) invites you to its...
Traditionally adults do not consider students as a source of valuable insight about school problems and students are not seen as mature enough to be real partners in change initiatives. Adults’...