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Challenging deficit models of poverty

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...

Using evidence to inform policy and practice in teacher education and medical education

Research Commission: Cost, Value and Quality in Professional Learning: promoting economic literacy in medical and teacher education

Seminar 1: Using evidence to inform policy and practice in teacher education and medical education - 11th February 2016 Seminar 2: Understanding Cost, Value and Quality in professional...

Student voice research in the United States— Finding opportunities to make a difference in an era of accountability

In marked contrast to European nations, the United States lacks any formal policy to spur youth participation. The United States is soon to become the only nation in the world that has not...

BERA Conference 2016 – Bursaries available

Have you submitted an abstract? Did you know you can apply for a bursary to attend the Conference.BERA Student BursariesBERA awards bursaries each year to UK students and occasionally overseas...

The HE Green Paper: five things we know and five speculations

Jo Johnson, the minister for higher education, has now published the government’s eagerly awaited Green Paper on the future of universities. It’s a long document, at almost 35,000 words. Most...

Curriculum Concerns

A curriculum is a predetermined programme of learning and has three components: a set of aims and objectives which articulate the intended student achievements (what they know, what they can do...

Applications now open for the 2016 ACU Commonwealth Summer School

Applications are now open for the 2016 ACU Commonwealth Summer School. This year the theme is ‘The Sustainable Development Goals: what role for universities?’ and the event is to be hosted by...

An answer to the question of impact

In their recent Research Intelligence article Cain and Hayward posed questions related to ways in which educational research might inform teaching and learning and the implications of ‘impact’...

BERA Conference 2016 – Abstract reviewers needed

Would you be willing to act as a reviewer for abstracts submitted to the BERA Annual Conference?To be involved, you will need to be available to referee abstracts online between the 8th February...

Slow Education leads to rich and balanced learning

In 1986 Italian food journalist Carlo Petrini was walking through Rome with friends. On reaching the Spanish steps they were faced with a new addition to the city’s ancient architecture – A...

BERA Research Commission 2015/2017- Poverty and Policy Advocacy

The Research Commission on Poverty and Policy Advocacy Child poverty is increasing in the UK. But how does that play out differently in the four UK jurisdictions, in relation to education? How do...

BERA Research Commission 2015/2017- Cost, Value and Quality in Professional Learning: promoting economic literacy in medical and teacher education

How are we to understand the cost, value and quality of university-based professional learning and development? This BERA Research Commission has examined the role of universities in professional...