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Guest editing opportunity for Research Intelligence, issue 167

Closes 4 Nov 2025

BERA’s Publications Committee is seeking an individual or team (of up to three people) to guest edit issue 167 of Research Intelligence on the theme of ‘The Curriculum and Assessment Review:...

Autumn 2025

Research Intelligence issue 164: Education in prisons: Generating hope, escaping stereotypes

Could cross-education sector collaboration around ‘scholarship’ boost educational research in the UK?

As researchers in higher education (HE) we find ourselves interested in the ‘Scholarship of Teaching and Learning’ (SoTL) (Felton, 2013). While difficult to pin-down, SoTL is both ‘field’...

Editorial: Seeking a new paradigm for antiracist multicultural education

English society and its education system have been through several phases of multicultural education – beginning with the colourblind, then through multicultural and antiracist phases, and then...

Seeking a new paradigm for antiracist multicultural education

English society and its education system have been through several phases of multicultural education. The current context for race, racism and hope education was discussed by Vini Lander in her...

‘Countering the post-truth turn’: A Spinozist educational approach

The 2024 UK election saw the reemergence of Nigel Farage as leader of Reform UK, the political successor to the United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) and the Brexit Party. Reform UK’s...

Evaluating my evaluations

Evaluations. Crucial to university student outreach. A minefield? Sometimes. Including one time where I had to ask a young person, ‘what exactly is rizz? Is this good, bad?!’ – it’s good...

Guest editing opportunity for Research Intelligence, issue 166

BERA’s Publications Committee is seeking an individual or team (of up to three people) to guest edit issue 166 of Research Intelligence on the theme of Higher Education: Opportunities and...

Rethinking equity and policy coherence: The implications of age-restricted funding for level 7 apprenticeships

As part of a broader strategy to refocus skills investment on young people, the UK government has announced significant reforms to apprenticeship funding in England (DfE, 2025). Central to this...

SEND and education, health and care plans in England: In the fast lane to overtake 10 per cent

The Children and Families Act 2014 in England provided a major transformation to the system for identifying special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). Ten years on, the National Audit...

BERA Educational Research Book of the Year

This award celebrates the publication of educational research and is awarded to a scholarly book on education deemed to be high quality, engaging and innovative.

Asking teachers to clean kids teeth is still a bad idea, and here’s why

As a qualified early years teacher, an academic interested in teacher retention, and also as a person who recently had an extremely decayed wisdom tooth removed at Birmingham Dental Hospital, I...