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The BERA special interest group (SIG) for higher education (HE) recently held a very successful themed seminar for BERA members on 16 March at Birmingham City University. There was a full...
Continue reading blog postThis event is now fully booked. Please email events@bera.ac.uk if you would like to receive notice of changes in availability or similar events. This seminar event is aimed at...
I remember reflecting on the experience of attending my first BERA annual conference as a doctoral student in 2008. More specifically, I can recall my initial perceptions of the educational...
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It’s not easy being an Early Career Researcher! Establishing your professional identity, developing your independence as a researcher, teaching, competing for grants, coping with increasing...
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Teaching excellence has been at the centre of debates about quality in English Higher Education (HE) in recent years. The introduction of the Teaching Excellence Framework has ratcheted up this...
Continue reading blog postIn view of the current popularity of educational research, it's easy to forget that this field of study has only gained academic approval relatively recently. In 1982 I tried to register with...
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The 2017 UK general election has thrown up many interesting aspects, but if he had been elected, Jeremy Corbyn would have been just the 4th prime minister since 1945 to not be an Oxbridge...
Continue reading blog postAs technology has become increasingly integrated into all aspects of university teaching, the tools and strategies available to support assessment have increased and evolved. Despite these...
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Work-related learning, whereby a student has the opportunity to undertake a project or work alongside staff in an organisation, is encouraged and recommended in many publications even if they are...
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The proportion of students from disadvantaged backgrounds going to ‘elite’ universities in England has remained worryingly flat in the past decade, despite millions of pounds being invested...
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Getting students to engage with subjects which have a reputation as being inaccessible or difficult is a constant challenge many teachers face, whether at school or in higher education. This...
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For years, I had been running workshops in which I asked university teachers to reflect on their most powerful learning experiences, drawing out key principles of learning. We then compared...
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