BERA invites proposals for 2015-6 Research Commissions
BERA is calling for proposals for Research Commissions to run during the academic year 2015-2016. The purpose of the commissions is to create space to think laterally and at greater depth on...
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When the poor relation comes to town! Education’s contribution to social science research methods
Maintaining global competitiveness in a fast-changing data landscape requires ongoing investment of resource For some time the development of research capacity has been a concern amongst...
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BERA Masters Dissertation Award Winner 2015
BERA is delighted to announce that the winner of this year’s Masters Dissertation Award is Alvin Leung, University of Cambridge.Alvin’s dissertation took a critical look at discourses of...
BERA Doctoral Thesis Award Winner 2015
BERA is delighted to announce that the winner of this year’s Doctoral Thesis Award is Dr Carla Finesilver.Carla’s thesis examined the particular difficulties with multiplicative thinking...
Statutory PSHE education – what more can we do?
In February, the Commons Education Committee recommended that Personal, Social, Health and Economic (PSHE) education, the subject which teaches pupils to keep healthy and safe and prepares them...
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How do you measure a national curriculum?
One of the trends in educational research has been towards more sophisticated understandings about which research methods are appropriate to answer particular research questions. For example a...
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Student Councils: Partnerships and Arguments
I read somewhere (maybe in J G Ballard’s Empire of the Sun, but I stand to be corrected) about events in some prisoner of war camps in Singapore, as the Japanese troops withdrew towards the end...
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Independent Researchers’ Forum Launches
We held the first meeting of BERA's new Independent Researchers' Forum on Wednesday 22nd July. Bringing together a diverse range of researchers, the group looked at priorities for action over the...
Independent Researchers’ Forum – Launch event
Educational research takes place in many different settings, including higher education institutions, but also schools, local authorities, community organisations and research organisations...
Educational researchers and their living-educational-theories
In this, my first contribution to the BERA blog, I hope to stimulate debate by sharing some differences of opinion with other researchers in BERA. My intention is to emphasise the importance of...
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Teachers in further education: more standards, not yet a profession?
Further education (FE) colleges – how they work, what happens in them, who studies in them, who works in them – always seem to get shunted to the margins. They are under-funded, relatively...
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The Government’s plans for Higher and Further Education: Queen’s Speech, Budget and beyond
Having had a quieter few years legislatively, higher education once again made the headlines of George Osborne’s Summer Budget on 8th July. Although it had been widely trailed, the chancellor...
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