BERA Small Grants Fund
Through our Small Grants Fund, BERA awards funding annually to research on a different, pressing theme each year. The value of each individual award is up to £5,000 and BERA usually funds up to...
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Through our Small Grants Fund, BERA awards funding annually to research on a different, pressing theme each year. The value of each individual award is up to £5,000 and BERA usually funds up to...
The Educational Research and Educational Policy-Making SIG has an opening for a convenor, to work alongside current convenor Craig Skerritt This SIG provides a space for BERA members interested...
As part of our 50th anniversary celebrations, BERA has collected together a set of 50 landmark studies that have had a significant impact on educational policy, educational practice, research...
Research Intelligence issue 161: Reclaiming teacher education: Opportunities for a research informed & politically engaged profession
Internationally, the marketisation of schooling has re-imagined schools as businesses (Ball, 2017) calling for those with business skills take on the role of school governance (Wilkins, 2015)....
Continue reading blog postWhy do some students excel while others struggle, despite having access to the same school educational resources? The answer often lies in their socioeconomic status (SES). SES is a complex...
Continue reading blog postOpportunities and challenges for further education
Following the General Election on the 4th July 2024, The Labour Government committed to a range of policies, relating to education, in the King's Speech. The Labour manifesto pledged to a review...
In this blog post I would like to raise a number of questions for the new government about English as an additional language in schools: What should the new Labour government do to reinstate...
Continue reading blog postIn recent years, governments have moved social policy towards being ‘evidence-based’. To give just two examples, in the US the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) restricts funding to...
Continue reading blog postThe rationale for how education operates is often contentious. There are varying views about academic selection, politicians disparage some degrees while lauding others, private schools’...
Continue reading blog postStimulating debate with Ulster University’s Transforming Education project