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Decolonising curriculum knowledge: A scholarly journey from the local, to national and international perspectives

I began decolonising curriculum knowledge 25 years ago. The tragic murder of the Black British teenager Stephen Lawrence in 1993 was the catalyst of my activism in education, research, teaching...

Why family engagement is crucial for schools and children

As educators, we know that a child’s home environment is a vital contributory factor towards their cognitive and social development. Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory (1979)...

Ethnic capital and the role of British Kashmiri parents in the education of their children

This blog is based on research, conducted in 2021, which explored the concept of ‘ethnic capital’ through interviews with seven British Kashmiri academics whose qualifications ranged between...

What’s in it for employers?

While higher education (HE) is often framed as a vehicle for social mobility, there has emerged a paradoxical situation of graduates ending up in roles that do not match their educational...

SIG Forum Meeting – Social Justice

Join the Social Justice SIG for our Annual Meeting to meet others and plan the year ahead.  Please join us for this session to talk about what you would like the SIG to do over the next year and...

Prioritising ‘fair’ play in Northern Ireland primary schools

For many years, Northern Ireland has been renowned for producing academically high-achieving pupils, and while this has been the case for some young people, issues of division and inequality are...

Inequalities in language learning: What are they and how can we fix them?

Young people in the UK are less likely to study a language in upper secondary school than their European peers, and not just because they already speak English (European Commission, 2017). In...

‘Learning for All’

BERA funded six small grants in 2022/23 under the title “Learning for all”. These grants supported projects which examine educational provision in its widest sense that seeks to provide or...

Bringing educational isolation into focus: Identifying non-urban schools and targeting resources to improve educational outcomes

Imagine you’re a student in an isolated secondary school in a rural, coastal or former industrial area of England. You look and sound like all your classmates; there’s very little diversity....

Can we really trust socioeconomic measures used in PISA tests?

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) conducts the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) study of 15-year-old students’ academic achievement. In order...

School exclusions: What does research tell us about the scale of the problem and challenges?

School exclusion is a hot issue within education and there is growing concern about the numbers of exclusions and off-rolling in schools in England. In particular, a number of studies have drawn...

Why is it that we can predict every year which types of students will have been excluded from school?

BERA Early Career Researcher Network Symposium Series 2022

While the numbers may change, the trends are largely the same: young people from certain minority ethnic groups, those who receive free school meals, those who are care-experienced or who are...