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The experiences of autistic young people & their parents of lockdown & the reopening of schools

Education & Covid-19: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

This report summarises findings of research into how families of autistic children and young people attending mainstream schools in England experienced and responded to home-schooling and...

Emergency remote learning in the UK: A comparison of March 2020 and January 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic has severely impacted everyday life around the world. In the UK, lockdowns have resulted in the closure of schools to most children for two prolonged periods: March to summer...

Book seminar – Exploring Teacher Recruitment and Retention: contextual challenges from international perspectives

Online registration for this event has now closed, to register please email events@bera.ac.uk #BERAEdPolicy #BERAEdEffectiveness @BERANews Exploring Teacher Recruitment and Retention:...

Book seminar – Exploring Teacher Recruitment and Retention: contextual challenges from international perspectives

Exploring Teacher Recruitment and Retention: contextual challenges from international perspectives, edited by SIG convenors Tanya Ovenden-Hope and Rowena Passy, has been well received and is...

The role of schools in the mental health of children & young people

This report presents a comprehensive review of the existing evidence on school-based approaches to mental health. It covers what is meant by mental health and wellbeing, and why this is...

The corridors of silence

Our vernacular is somewhat noisy with idioms of silence: deafening silences; as silent as the grave; a wall of silence; suffering in silence. Other idioms offer implicit references to silence,...

Small schools, big issue? Exploring the future for small schools in rural and coastal England

BERA SIG for Educational Effectiveness and Improvement, in partnership with Marjon University Cornwall, the National Association of Small Schools and the Diocese of Truro, invites school leaders,...

Small schools, big issue? Exploring the future for small schools in rural and coastal England

Online registration for this event has now closed, to register please email events@bera.ac.uk   #BERA_EducationalEffectiveness @BERA_News BERA SIG for Educational Effectiveness and...

Lessons learned from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on young people with autism

The advent of the Covid-19 pandemic affected all educational institutions without warning. From our experience, it seems that special schools, particularly those that work with young people with...

Aniqa Khaliq

Senior Lecturer

Aniqa Khaliq is a Senior Lecturer at the University of East London, and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Aniqa started her career as a mathematics teacher, teaching and learning...

Access to education in a time of pan(dem)ic in Jamaica: Rural and urban primary schools’ experience

Education & Covid-19: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

As the scale of the Covid-19 pandemic became clear, on 14 March 2020 the Jamaican government moved teaching and learning online and primary schools remained closed for the remainder of the school...

Is ‘lost learning’ the new crisis in education?

Concerns around lost learning have been a pervasive and recurrent theme of late – all of which can be traced back to the closing of schools over the past year in response to the Covid-19...