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Reflecting on education policy from across the UK

10 years of the BERA Blog

Education policy in the UK is characterised by change, churn and disruption as successive governments somewhat inevitably recognise ‘problems’ in education to be ‘fixed’ with different...

BERA journals announce Editors’ Choice Awards for 2024

Two of BERA’s journals, British Educational Research Journal and Curriculum Journal , have announced their annual Editors’ Choice Awards, recognising papers published in their 2024 volumes....

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...

Educational Research and Educational Policy-Making SIG Convenor 2025-2028

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...

50@50 – A portrait of 50 years of educational research through 50 studies

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...

Winter 2024/25

Research Intelligence issue 161: Reclaiming teacher education: Opportunities for a research informed & politically engaged profession

Six parent role types in the corporatised governance of multi-academy trusts: Products and enablers of a corporate game

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)....

Understanding the impact of socioeconomic status on student learning in schools

Why 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...

Guest editing opportunity for Research Intelligence, issue 163

Opportunities and challenges for further education

BERA and the Curriculum

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...

English as an additional language in schools: What are the Labour government’s priorities?

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...

Brokering experimental knowledge for educational policy and practice

In 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...