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BJET – New Editors Wanted

BERA is offering a great opportunity for a new team of editors to renew and refresh one of the most highly regarded educational technology journals. BJET is one of BERA's four prestigious...

BERA Council Election Notice 2016

Nominations are now open for BERA Council - there are 4 vacancies on our Council as well as the position of Vice-President.Nominations for the general positions and Vice-President will close on...

Is it A levels or apprenticeship policy that damages vocational education?

There are regular assertions in both the press and academic literature that the low take up of vocational education in England, relative to selected comparators, is because it has lower status...

Challenging deficit models of poverty

Research Commission: Poverty and Policy Advocacy

The BERA Commission on Poverty and Policy Advocacy: seminar series Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk for details of how to...

Student voice research in the United States— Finding opportunities to make a difference in an era of accountability

In marked contrast to European nations, the United States lacks any formal policy to spur youth participation. The United States is soon to become the only nation in the world that has not...

Using evidence to inform policy and practice in teacher education and medical education

Research Commission: Cost, Value and Quality in Professional Learning: promoting economic literacy in medical and teacher education

Seminar 1: Using evidence to inform policy and practice in teacher education and medical education - 11th February 2016 Seminar 2: Understanding Cost, Value and Quality in professional...

BERA Conference 2016 – Bursaries available

Have you submitted an abstract? Did you know you can apply for a bursary to attend the Conference.BERA Student BursariesBERA awards bursaries each year to UK students and occasionally overseas...

The HE Green Paper: five things we know and five speculations

Jo Johnson, the minister for higher education, has now published the government’s eagerly awaited Green Paper on the future of universities. It’s a long document, at almost 35,000 words. Most...

Curriculum Concerns

A curriculum is a predetermined programme of learning and has three components: a set of aims and objectives which articulate the intended student achievements (what they know, what they can do...

Applications now open for the 2016 ACU Commonwealth Summer School

Applications are now open for the 2016 ACU Commonwealth Summer School. This year the theme is ‘The Sustainable Development Goals: what role for universities?’ and the event is to be hosted by...

BERA Conference 2016 – Abstract reviewers needed

Would you be willing to act as a reviewer for abstracts submitted to the BERA Annual Conference?To be involved, you will need to be available to referee abstracts online between the 8th February...

An answer to the question of impact

In their recent Research Intelligence article Cain and Hayward posed questions related to ways in which educational research might inform teaching and learning and the implications of ‘impact’...