BERA has published a collection of 40 landmark studies that have had a significant impact on educational policy, practice, research methodology and/or theory over the past 40 years. The final...
Primary school pupils in China do much better at maths than their counterparts in England because of the type of teaching Chinese teachers use, a study presented to BERA Conference has concluded.
The practice of “streaming” children by ability in the early years of primary school is widening the achievement gap between children from better-off homes and those facing disadvantage,...
The BERA Timeline is a resource that charts key moments both for the Association and also for educational research in the UK. Our intention is that this will draw as much as possible on existing...
23rd-25th September 2014 Institute of Education, LondonBERA celebrated its 40th anniversary conference, attended by over 900 delegates. With a record number of submissions and exceptional...
Registration and Abstract Submission now open! Welcome to the BERA Annual Conference 2015 which will be held at Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland. We were last here in 1998 and...
The BERA Conference 2014 was held on the 23rd-25th September 2014 at the Institute of Education, London. Keynote speakers included: Professor Danny Dorling, Professor David Leat, Professor Sugata...
Geography reveals just how divided we have become. There are places from which it appears almost impossible to succeed educationally and others from where it appears very hard to fail. On any...
In this talk, Sugata Mitra will take us through the origings of schooling as we know it, to the dematerialisation of institutions as we know them. Thirteen years of experiments in children’s...
Registration is now open! Please visit the dedicated conference website: www.beraconference.co.uk for full information on the conference including registration. We have had a record number...
Research from Professor Steve Strand, of the University of Oxford, says the pervasiveness of this attainment gap, across all types of schools, suggests that factors outside of the institutions’...