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BERA Conference 2015 in Belfast was an outstanding success and has been noted by many to be the best BERA Conference yet. We have captured some of the many highlights of the event and compiled...
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Academisation: as straightforward as it sounds?
Writing in the Daily Telegraph on 15th August 2015, David Cameron announced that every school in England should “have the opportunity to become an academy and benefit from the freedoms this...
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Opportunity to join the National Schools Partnership
The National Schools Partnership is a marketing agency that specialises in the development and circulation of free educational resources to schools across the UK and Republic of Ireland. They...
Policy for an imaginary school: a call to break the spell
The initial motivation for my doctoral thesis emerged from my involvement in a programme for the implementation of Assessment for Learning (AfL) with Chilean teachers in partnership with the...
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16-19 Learners: Time to Stop Pigeon-Holing and Start Listening
It’s been a busy few years for the FE sector; in fact, I cannot recall a time of greater change during my professional career. Funding cuts have become commonplace in many areas of education,...
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BERA launches new History SIG
BERA Council has approved the introduction of a new special interest group in History. The History SIG will provide a base for historical research, theories, representations and methodologies in...
The Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF): Remember, writing matters
Whatever your thoughts about the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF), the higher education initiative proposed by Jo Johnson and open to consultation, it is an opportunity to focus on what should...
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Pakistani boys’ education in Birmingham schools
Pakistani children make-up a quarter of Birmingham’s school population and will soon become its largest pupil ethnic group. A large number of them leave the local schools each year without the...
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New Editor for Research Intelligence
We are delighted to announce that Prof. Kalwant Bhopal has been appointed as the incoming editor of Research Intelligence. Kalwant starts her term with the first issue of 2016 and comes to the...
Early Career Researcher Fellowships (DECRA) in STEM Education at UTS
The Australian Research Council (ARC) annually awards three-year Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards (DECRAs) to create opportunities for early career researchers to develop their research...
Academic transitions into higher education and negotiating change
Theorising student transition Transition is replete within the human world. That is as much to say that it is impossible to entirely ‘stand still’. From one day to the next, one place to...
Continue reading blog postVisual methods, objects and material culture in early childhood
This Innovation Session that took place at BERA took the form of a workshop/masterclass in researching early childhood using visual methodologies, combining presentations, graffiti and Information...
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