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Last week I sat down with my son to watch The Hunt, a new David Attenborough documentary about predatory behaviour. The episode was filmed in the Arctic. There, when the ice caps melt, the life of...
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I’m both laughing and crying. We do a lot of that in education, don’t we? Someone at work who works closely with teachers just told me that teachers in English schools, if asked about a test...
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Over the last 12 months I have been lucky enough to have the opportunity to read, reflect and write about evidence-based practice and education. The more and more I have read about the...
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‘Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.’ Italo Calvino Why is it that...
Continue reading blog postAs a practitioner within FE I have observed a variety of different levels of learners where the interaction between them may not always be as I would expect. Some learners clearly display the...
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Methodological challenges in education(al) researchBERA is starting a series of presidential round table seminars that will draw on processes of agenda- setting, horizon-scanning, evidence review...
Who are these events for? These symposia are for postgraduate and/or early career researchers in education – from those in the various stages of doctoral work, to those who just completed their...
The issue of effectively engaging linguistically and culturally diverse students is one that preoccupies teachers and researchers alike, resonating across rural, suburban, urban, mainstream and...
Continue reading blog postBERA Council member, Professor Joanne Hughes from the Queen’s University Belfast Centre for Shared Education has been appointed as the first ever UNESCO chair in globalising a shared education...
At a national and international level, research on very low attaining pupils of secondary age is rare compared to younger age groups, and while there has been increased interest in the past decade...
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We are pleased to announce a new interim editorial team for BJET. This team will edit the Journal from 1st January 2016 until a longer-term appointment is made. BERA is grateful to this team for...
In 2014, ReadingWise invited us to carry out an independent study of its Computer-Based Literacy Programme for Accelerated Reading Acquisition. Following exploratory meetings, schools and adult...
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