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International Perspectives On Educational Inequalities And Social Policy-Making

Following Teesside University’s successful social policy REF (Research Excellence Framework) submission I accepted a formal invitation to attend The Bremen International Graduate School of...

Training and/or Learning and Development which is key for quality in teaching

The drive to measure teaching performance through observations and assessment in schools and the introduction of teaching excellence framework (TEF) at HEI has led educators to ask “where do we...

BERA Conference 2016 – Keynote speakers confirmed

Professor Siân Bayne Sian is Professor of Digital Education at the University of Edinburgh, based in the Moray House School of Education. She directs the Centre for Research in Digital Education...

A new direction for gifted education studies?

Research on ‘giftedness’ and ‘gifted education’ often feels like a marginalised endeavour, one which is quite rightly viewed by many as elitist. We have ample evidence to demonstrate that...

Developing a cohesive strategy for leading learning inside education?

I read Ian Potter’s blog post ‘Can we learn together?’ with interest having spoken to him at Belmas back in the Summer, on some of these issues. As a secondary school teacher who has worked...

Opportunity: Professors and Lecturers in Education (4 posts)

The Department of Education at the University of Bath is seeking to make two appointments at professorial level and two at lecturer (Assistant Professor) level.The Department of Education at the...

Education, Poverty and Psychological Wellbeing: The impacts of the ‘Bedroom Tax’ on children and their education

Research has established that there is a connection between poverty and education, such that the poorer a child’s family, the less well they are likely to do in their education (Raffo et al.,...

Scholarship opportunity: Investigating new forms of teacher education

Project summaryMany new routes into teaching are being developed by government policy, particularly in England via school-based training. The project will investigate these new routes and...

Reviewing subjects, contexts and identities in science and technology. Understanding “making” as learning across the arts and the sciences

Research Commission: Reviewing the Potential and Challenges of Developing STEAM Education

The BERA Commission on Reviewing the potential and challenges of developing STEAM education through creative pedagogies for 21st learning: seminar series   This event is now fully booked. To be...

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...