Opportunity: Postgraduate Forum Convenor Applications Invited
The BERA Postgraduate Forum was established in 2012 as a result of the Association’s wish to offer more specific forms of support to postgraduates. It reflects the view of...
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Transgender Equality Inquiry
In January of this year, the Women and Equalities Select Committee released its report of its inquiry into transgender equality. The inquiry comprised of evidence from transgender community...
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Primary School Assessment
The recent news that the Commons Education Select Committee has decided to formally review SATs at the ends of Key Stages 1 and 2 hasn’t yet occasioned much comment on the Mumsnet talkboards;...
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What do metacognition and sheep have in common?
Metacognition is a notoriously woolly concept that has been subject to much debate since its conceptualisation by Flavell in the late 1970s. This blog is the story of a journey to PhD completion,...
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Making the Case for the Social Sciences – Education
BERA has partnered with the Academy of Social Sciences and Routledge, Taylor & Francis to bring together a wide-ranging collection of impactful research on education that has improved standards of...
Making the Case for the Social Sciences – Education
BERA has partnered with the Academy of Social Sciences and Routledge, Taylor & Francis to bring together a wide-ranging collection of impactful research on education that has improved standards of...
Oxford Education Research Symposium
We are pleased to invite you to the 9th Oxford Education Research Symposium. It will be held 7, 8 & 9 December at St Cross College, Oxford. The featured Keynote speaker will be Dr Ian Menter,...
Are BME students more likely to be excluded from University than White students?
It is the case that, within primary and secondary education, pupils from some BME backgrounds are more likely to be excluded from school than White pupils (EHRC 2010, 2015). Some groups of Black...
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Is now the time to do away with ITE allocations?
When the initial teacher education (ITE) allocations for the 2017/18 were announced on 28 September, there was (if not joy) a measure of reassurance across the teacher education sector. The...
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Correcting the ‘Grammar’ in Social Mobility
In recognising Brexit as a game changer, Teresa May entered Number 10 Downing Street with a commitment to restore the fortunes of working families and to narrowing egregious inequalities in...
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Social Mobility and the Family
Social mobility has become an essential policy solution, an apparent panacea for inequality, injustice and unfairness (Hoskins & Barker, 2014). The idea of individuals transcending their...
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How realistic is social mobility?
We hear a lot about social mobility, especially during elections. Political parties and governments often use social mobility (alongside keywords such as opportunity, potential and justice) as a...
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