The art of connecting: How primary and secondary teachers are building a framework for expressive arts

Re‐educating the nation? The development of a new curriculum for Wales

Curriculum reform in Wales is heralding a raft of changes for schools, one of which is the rise in significance of the expressive arts. The new Welsh curriculum for learners aged 3-to-16, which...

Tackling the languages ‘crisis’: Supporting multilingualism in the new curriculum for Wales

Re‐educating the nation? The development of a new curriculum for Wales

What can be done to inspire an uplift for modern foreign languages across Wales in the future?

Learning progression in the humanities: Identifying tensions in articulating progression in the humanities in Wales

Re‐educating the nation? The development of a new curriculum for Wales

The current curriculum reforms in Wales (Welsh Government, 2020) represent a significant shift in thinking and organisation. As well as the introduction of the ‘four purposes’ to drive...

The new core maths qualifications: A welcome opportunity, but what is their place in the curriculum?

We are approaching the end of a three-year project, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, investigating the successes and challenges of core maths (CM), a set of post-16 qualifications introduced in...

Should we really call this home schooling? Reflections from the research field

Covid-19, education and educational research

Within this current context, the term ‘home schooling’ is often deployed in a blanket way to describe what is likely to be a plethora of activities and methods of teaching and learning largely...

What you need to know to get the best from online education: A BJET/JCAL virtual special issue

Covid-19, education and educational research

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we’re all going through a period unlike any we have ever experienced. With respect to teaching and learning, students can’t attend school and universities – and...

Practical science and pandemics

Covid-19, education and educational research

As the whole planet finds itself engulfed in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, it has become increasingly clear that the public needs to be well equipped with the skills to deal with scientific...

BERA joins call to cancel the introduction of Reception Baseline Assessment (RBA) in the Autumn term

BERA President Dominic Wyse is one of the co-signatories to an open letter that calls upon the Government to abandon its plan to introduce the reception baseline assessment into primary schools in...

Collaborative distance-learning in a time of coronavirus

Covid-19, education and educational research

James Derounian of the Association of National Teaching Fellows offers tips on delivering quality distance-learning for quarantined students.

Digital masters? Reflecting on the readiness of students and staff for digital learning

Covid-19, education and educational research

If we assume that necessity really is the mother of invention, then the problems of delivery that arose when the Covid-19 virus crisis hit UK higher education represented a golden opportunity for...

The importance of the wider context: How an ecological approach can assist in understanding ICT take-up

Those researching technology use in education often switch between excessive optimism and excessive pessimism. They see the opportunities that new technology offers for creativity and a more...

Language counts when learning mathematics with interactive apps

Educational maths apps are increasingly popular in young children’s early learning experiences. When available in multiple languages, maths apps can offer the opportunity for learning in the...