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Elite universities, fields of study and top salaries: Which degree will make you rich?

As more people gain university degrees, people are increasingly aware that some degrees may be worth more than others. We know that the British socioeconomic elite is dominated by people who have...

What if east Asia’s high achievement is not the result of longer hours of study, cram schools, and exam pressure?

Since the inception of international comparative tests in the 1960s, Japanese students, like most students around east Asia, have consistently outscored their Anglo-American peers (that is, the...

Open resources and accessibility

Open educational resources (OERs) are:   ‘[A]ny type of educational materials that are in the public domain or introduced with an open license. The nature of these open materials...

Review of Education Editors’ Choice Award 2018

The editorial team of the Review of Education (RoE) and BERA and are pleased to announce the winners of the 2018 RoE Editors’ Choice Award, which recognises articles published across the...

Encouraging inclusion of at-risk students through co-op video games

Every day, teachers face challenges with including students who are inactive participants in the classroom. Such challenges may involve social difficulties – such as shyness, disruptive...

2019 BERA Masters and Doctoral Awards Now Open

Every year BERA recognises academic excellence and rigour in research by a Masters of Education student and a Doctoral student. This underscores BERA’s commitment to developing capacity,...

Did socially engaged students make more cognitive contribution?

According to a report prepared for the Higher Education Funding Council for England, online and distance courses have increased significantly in the UK over the past decade; a survey by the UK's...

From here to home: A small note on PhDscapes

In 2014, when I started my PhD at the University of Huddersfield about globalisation and higher education in Vietnam, I found myself thinking, ‘Why do I need to go halfway around the world to do...

BERJ Editors’ Choice Award 2018

The editorial team of the British Educational Research Journal (BERJ) and BERA and are delighted to announce the winners of the 2018 BERJ Editors’ Choice Award, recognising articles published...

Netnography: exploring ‘innovative’ approaches to research

My PhD focusses on how online teacher-learning communities may support professional development, and as a relatively new researcher I was aware that, to address the subject, I needed to build my...

Early Career Researcher Symposium Series: Ethical Dilemmas in Educational Research (Stirling)

Early Career Researcher Symposium Series 2018: Ethical Dilemmas in Educational Research

  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.   Discussants: Dr. Dalene Swanson, Dr....

Students experience empowerment and empathy through pedagogical partnership

Student empowerment can take many forms. Some, such as new student activism and student consumerism, can feel threatening to faculty and higher education communities. Others offer a...