BERA and the Kusuma Trust publish major new report series on improving the education experience of neurodivergent young people

New research from the British Educational Research Association (BERA), funded by the Kusuma Trust, highlights practical, evidence-informed ways schools can better support neurodivergent learners...

Neurodiversity in Mainstream Schools Grant Programme reports

A major new report series published by the British Educational Research Association (BERA) sets out practical, evidence-informed approaches to improving the education experience of neurodivergent...

Right, what are we doing to help the children?

BERA Blog post #2,000

Summer 2026

Research Intelligence issue 167: Equity & curriculum reform in the four UK nations

Is creative writing an art form? The curriculum doesn’t think so

Over the past decade, English (as a curriculum subject) has been stripped of its soul and creativity. What was once a subject that celebrated imagination and voice has been reduced to a sterile...

Five realignments for curriculum design

As upcoming curriculum reform unfolds across England and Northern Ireland, schools are being invited to reconsider how their curriculum visions relate to profound and unprecedented societal...

BERA Bites, issue 14: Rethinking primary education through pedagogical innovation & wellbeing

BERA Bites

The educational imperatives of our time have led to major curriculum reviews in all four nations of the UK. Common themes across these curriculum reforms include a shift in focus from knowledge to...

Teaching for tomorrow: Why virtual internships belong in the curriculum

The current economic downturn has created an increasingly competitive global jobs market which demands graduates with enhanced transferable skills as outlined in the World Economic Forum’s...

Teacher educators’ collective agency: Making the subject pedagogy curriculum in the Netherlands

As a geography teacher educator, I’ve always been intrigued by how young students manage to master such a complex profession. This curiosity led to my PhD research on the professional...

Building teacher commitment in times of change: Lessons from Norwegian schools

This blog post reports from a study of Norwegian high school teachers’ affective commitment to their school organisation. This commitment embodies a sense of belonging and loyalty that drives...

Getting creative in schools to improve young people’s wellbeing

Wellbeing is about feeling good and functioning well (Deighton, 2016). In the UK, young people’s wellbeing has been declining for the past two decades, and the prevalence of mental health...

From reparation to remigration: How the radical demands of Black Lives Matter were neutralised in the English literature curriculum

The powerful, student-led calls for a racially just English literature curriculum that emerged from the 2020 Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement have been systematically subdued (see Boakye, 2022)....