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Past event27 Mar 2018
Undergraduate students are not often valued as, or considered to be, researchers. Evidence suggests, however, that by providing undergraduates with research opportunities we upskill our students,...
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Louise McInnes
When Michael Gove and Nick Gibb first entered their offices on the seventh floor in Sanctuary Buildings in 2010, they were intent on instigating a revolutionary change in the way that student...
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James Noble-Rogers
A one day research symposium UKLA, BERA and OU The symposium seeks to enable information sharing in order to advance understanding of the concept of reading for pleasure, and to provoke debate...
Past event22 Mar 2018
In this blog I focus on the impact of social media on children and young people’s mental health, drawing on the research of Emily Frith (Frith, 2017). Some children in developed countries live...
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Jonathan Glazzard
This event is now fully booked. Please email events@bera.ac.uk if you would like to receive notice of changes in availability or similar events. This event will be a research...
Past event21 Mar 2018
The English in Education SIG held its first research seminar on 15 February – an excellent occasion featuring Dr Simon Gibbons of UCL. Simon’s research has focussed on the history of English...
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Andy Goodwyn
This event is now fully booked. Please email events@bera.ac.uk if you would like to receive notice of changes in availability or similar events. This seminar event is aimed at...
Past event16 Mar 2018
RESEARCH SEMINAR – John Gordon Most people remember ‘reading round the class’. Typically, discussion develops as classes share a book together, students elaborating responses collectively...
Past event15 Mar 2018
Professor Martin Boehm of the IE Business School says that in order to prepare students for the 80 per cent of jobs that will exist in 2025 but don’t exist today, traditional course content...
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Carol Webb
On 28 February 2018, a special education symposium was hosted by Mike Kane MP, shadow minister for schools, for Manchester Metropolitan University at the House of Commons. The symposium aimed to...
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Moira Hulme
Providing opportunities for young people leaving compulsory schooling to pursue world-class further and higher education is a global concern. Post-compulsory education is constructed as a panacea...
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Kate Hoskins