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High take-up of private tuition by primary school pupils revealed

High take-up of private tuition by primary school pupils revealed

Nearly half of 11-year-olds among some minority ethnic groups in the UK are receiving private tuition outside of school, research has revealed.Children categorised as from Chinese, black or Indian...

Scottish and English teenagers split on whether university should be free

Scottish and English teenagers split on whether university should be free

A difference of opinion between English and Scottish young people on how higher education should be funded has been captured in a study being presented to BERA today.Around three quarters of...

Can We Stop It? Yes We Can! Stamping Out English Cultural “imperialism”

I subscribe to The London Review of Books (LRB). The main article on May 7th 2015 was about free schools and academies. It provoked a vigorous debate (on 21/5. 4/6 and 18/6) with serious...

Can Social Realism Do Social Justice?

Our BERA presentation, ‘Can Social Realism Do Social Justice: Debating the Warrants for Curriculum Knowledge Selection’, is based on a paper of the same title, soon to be available online from...

The potential of inter-professional learning in supporting children with speech, language and communication needs

You may be aware of two pieces of research recently published about children’s speech, language and communication needs. The National Literacy Trust (Read On Get On campaign) commissioned James...

How can educational researchers respond to the refugee crisis?

Building on discussions at ECER 2015 in Budapest, BERA members and delegates used the opportunity of being gathered at the annual conference in Belfast to discuss how they might individually and...

Want to get a good night’s sleep, kids? Turn off Facebook and Twitter, say researchers

The impact of social media on young people’s lives has been underlined starkly as a new study reports that more than one in five teenagers say they “almost always” wake up during the night...

Want to get a good night’s sleep, kids? Turn off Facebook and Twitter, say researchers

Schools ‘need a moral purpose beyond exam results’

Schools ‘need a moral purpose beyond exam results’

Schools are failing to set out a coherent moral purpose for their pupils beyond the achievement of good grades, research being presented tomorrow (Wednesday) claims.Education institutions should...