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ESRC Advisory Committee Vacancies

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) are currently seeking to appoint eight new members to their Advisory Committees.  Further details, including vacancy specifications and...

Why educational researchers should take on board the multifarious nature of racism in the UK

There are at least two compelling reasons why educational researchers should be centrally involved in challenging racism. First, as a University and College Union (UCU) survey[i] of ‘black’...

An education in broadcasting silence

Late last year Newman University where I work as an Education Studies lecturer flew me to Copenhagen to attend the Copenhagen Documentary Festival (CPHDOX), a major film festival. Now, that's not...

Bringing Teacher Education Forward

“BRINGING TEACHER EDUCATION FORWARD – National and International Perspectives”at the University of Oslo, Norway. Please save the date 6-8 June...

Whole-class I-R-F: Confronting the ‘Pseudo-differentiation’ Issue

The practice of ‘differentiation’ in a whole-class setting is an established concept and regarded as being an essential feature of effective pedagogy. As Kerry (2002, p.82) points...

Connecting Creativities, Interculturality and Gender through Practice: Series 2015 – 16

This series, hosted by Homerton College and the Faculty of Education, aims to bring new insights to often well-rehearsed and polarized debates from different fields and disciplines about what...

What’s the Difference?

GCSE results published by the Department for Education (DfE) show enormous variations between the performance of English secondary schools. If we are serious about school improvement then it is...

New Editors for BJET

BERA is delighted to announce the appointment of a new editorial team for the British Journal of Educational Technology (BJET).After a highly competitive process, Carina Girvan, Sara Hennessy,...

Researching the Further Education Sector

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. Please join us at Bedford College for a one-day...

Power to the People; Can Teacher Coaching be viewed as a form of Transformational Leadership?

There is something both alluring and disquieting about theories which can be summed up as a catchy combination of letters and numbers. They create a hook, something which we can engage with, may...

Lessons from the past to inform the future

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...

Creating a culture of high expectations: complexities and challenges

Labelling and notions of fixed ability are prevalent in our education system. Students are divided into groups according to their prior attainment and ‘appropriate’ work is provided as a...