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Press Release – Children “can pass phonics test without extensive phonic knowledge”
The government’s assessment of early reading, taken by hundreds of thousands of five- and six-year-olds in England every year, is not testing what it is supposed to test, research has...
Press Release – Vast differences in take-up of private tuition revealed
Primary school children in London are more than eight times as likely to have received private tuition as their counterparts in Scotland, research being presented to BERA today has revealed. Some...
Press Release – Most teenagers “believe they have a soul”
More than half of secondary school pupils believe that people have souls, a survey has revealed. Almost as many – 45 per cent – say they believe in God while 52 per cent agree with the...
Press Release – Pupils left puzzled by the term “British values”
The concept of “British values”, as promoted by the government in its anti-terrorism strategy, is leaving many school pupils baffled. And few of them have even heard of the “Prevent”...
Royal Society and British Academy launch project to transform educational research in the UK
The Royal Society and British Academy are launching a project today (14 September 2016) to determine how best to harness new and up-to-date research methodologies, using the latest technologies,...
Press Release – Big difference between pupil and teacher perceptions of teaching revealed
Fewer than half of young secondary school pupils think their views are taken seriously by those educating them, a major new study has found. Perhaps unsurprisingly, almost all of their teachers...
Press Release – British Empire study “prevalent in most schools”
The death of teaching of the British Empire in English schools has been greatly exaggerated. And, contrary to occasional assertions by politicians, children are not being given a negative account...
Education in Conflict: Redefining the Contours of Change
Education in contemporary India is encumbered by the convergence between forces of economic globalisation and conservative ideology. Capitalising on the post-enlightenment social-subjective split,...
Education for ‘political generosity’: the role of schools in supporting young people’s understanding of politically complex societies
Children and young people are growing up in contexts which are politically complex, often exacerbated by conflict or societal divisions. Yet, whilst it is generally accepted that schools have a...
BERA Conference 2016
Welcome to the BERA Annual Conference 2016 which will be held at the University of Leeds, 13th-15th September 2016.We last held the conference at the University of Leeds in 2001. Leeds as a city...