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Enhancing apprenticeships: Insights for educators and mentors on maximising off-the-job training

Introduction Off-the-job (OTJ) training is a vital part of degree apprenticeships in England, requiring apprentices to dedicate 20 per cent of their learning to activities outside their usual...

BERA 2024 Annual Report: Celebrating 50 Years of Educational Research

We are pleased to announce the release of BERA’s 2024 Annual Report, marking our 50th anniversary year! This milestone provided an opportunity to reflect on our rich history while looking ahead...

Linyao Wang

Dr. Linyao Wang is a Lecturer in Education at the Institute of Education, University of Reading. Her research focuses on social mobility, educational inequalities, access to education, and the...

Carolina Hinojosa

Carolina is a Project Coordinator for the Salford Foundation’s ‘Steps’ program which focuses on preventing gender-based violence (GBV). Her areas of interest relate to the development of...

Jodie McGoldrick

Jodie McGoldrick is a PhD candidate at the University of Portsmouth, specialising in participatory research methods to explore how Relationships and Sex Education can be developed in Initial...

Jack McGeehan

Jack is a Project Coordinator for the Salford Foundation’s ‘Steps’ program, which focuses on preventing gender-based violence (GBV). Prior to this he helped coordinate the ‘Boys to Men’...

Sara Jayne Long

Sara Jayne Long is an inter-disciplinary researcher interested in health, wellbeing and education outcomes of children and young people. Adopting a range of qualitative and quantitative methods,...

The Overlaps and Intersections of Playwork and Youth Work – Virtual Event

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Ana Salcedo

Ana Salcedo joined BERA in 2025 as the Conference & Events Administrator. In this role, she supports the Conference and Events Manager with all aspects of event preparation. Her tasks range from...

Documenting and dismantling language ideologies in education

10 years of the BERA Blog

Over the past few years, I have carried out extensive fieldwork in secondary schools in England, where my focus has been the beliefs about spoken language on display in classrooms, corridors and...

Developing biliteracy through a traditional, cross-linguistic pedagogical approach

Cross-linguistic pedagogy, which involves using multiple languages in classrooms to foster literacy development by providing a ‘bridge between languages,’ has recently gained significant...

A century of educating Britain’s political elite: Privilege masquerading as meritocracy?

In this blog post, we examine the UK secondary schools and universities that educated Cabinet ministers between 1922 and 2022. The UK seems widely relevant, as every country possesses elite...