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Postgraduate Symposium Series – Northern: Practical Issues in Conducting Educational Research

  Northern Symposium: Prof. Nicki Hedge, University of Glasgow     This event is now fully booked, however there are still bursary places available. Please complete the application...

Seventy Thousand Hours in the Community and Counting: A New Approach to Practicum in Initial Teacher Education

When trying to envisage the role of ‘teacher’ in the future it can be difficult to have a vision of something that takes us beyond our own experience.  Introducing new approaches to the...

An Educational HS2 to Irrelevance?

Over at least the last 40 years education policies in the United Kingdom have been seeking to make schools become more effective in meeting increasingly demanding political expectations. We have,...

“When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.” – Chinese proverb

The winds of change can be welcome, pushing you to a better world. For many teachers in Wales today the current climate feels more like a storm. In 1999 the first elections to the newly...

Professional Learning for Teacher Leadership

Teacher leadership is a term which is increasingly being used in Scottish educational policy and the Scottish College for Educational Leadership (SCEL) has been tasked with supporting the...

Teacher Agency and Curriculum Development

Recent curriculum policy in the UK and elsewhere (e.g. Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence, Successful Futures in Wales, and the New Zealand Curriculum Framework) marks a significant departure...

International Forum for Teacher Educator Development (InFo-TED)- walking the talk

In 2013 a group of international teacher educators met at the AERA conference to discuss the lack of attention teacher educators as a professional group received from policy makers and...

“Honestly, I think it’s a horrendous knee-jerk reaction”: Politeness, superiority, assimilation and criticality: student teachers’ views on fundamental British values

In the wake of terror attacks in London and Manchester in 2017, concerns have been raised about the extent to which governmental strategies to combat terrorism are successful in preventing...

BERA Response to the DfE consultation on Primary Assessment in England

BERA President, Gemma Moss responded on the organisation's behalf to the recent consultation. This was based upon our earlier submission to the Education Select Committee and our ongoing support...

How technology shapes assessment design: Findings from a study of university teachers

As technology has become increasingly integrated into all aspects of university teaching, the tools and strategies available to support assessment have increased and evolved. Despite these...

Bridging the Global Educational Gap

The University of Worcester, in association with the British Educational Research Association Special Interest Groups for ‘Comparative and International Education’ and ‘Educational Research...

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