Ethnicity & the early years workforce: A census of staff in maintained nursery schools in England

Race & Education: BERA Small Grants Fund research

This study, supported by BERA's Small Grants Fund (SGF), surveyed ethnicity across staff working in maintained nursery schools (MNSs) in England.  The project aimed to gather a robust...

Post-truth teachers

Teaching is values-based and complex. While theory and research within the field of education is contested, we require high-quality teachers who exercise professional judgement in deciding what...

Don’t look up: Ignoring the looming crisis in public education

In the movie satire Don’t Look Up, a deadly comet threatens to hit earth. Two astronomers recognise the impending disaster, but their warnings remain unheeded. The US President, experts and the...

‘Challenging’ reflexivity in the transition between practicums: A practical and gamified approach to embed ‘big ideas’ into the teacher education curriculum

Like all teacher educators in England, we are conscious that our practice is increasingly located in turbulent and changing political and managerial landscapes for teacher education (see Murtagh &...

‘Shut up and leave me alone’: Why schools need to be places of belonging

‘Shut up and leave me alone’ were the only words that 10-year-old refugee ‘Aisha’ could find to say in English after three weeks in her school. She was the outsider who didn’t...

HE Education Research Census 2022

The UK-wide census of all HE-based education researchers has just been launched. It is a nationwide census examining the characteristics, experiences and attitudes of education researchers...

Summer 2022

Pandemic, protests, recovery, opportunities: Repositioning of educational research, teaching & learning  Research Intelligence issue 151 This second decade of the 21st century continues to...

Early Career Researcher Network – Regional Reps vacancy

Call for Regional Representatives - Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales & South West England Regional Representatives The BERA Early Career Researcher (ECR) Network aims to offer support to those...

Comparing PE curricula across the UK home nations: Creating conditions for cross-border conversations

Understanding UK PE curricula In the UK and internationally, the subject of physical education (PE) has remained relatively unchanged and continues to be associated with the development of sport...

Schooling, innovation and community

Recently, I discovered some chapters that I had drafted in the early 1980s. These arose from a study of teachers at Bridgewater Hall, the first secondary school on Stantonbury Campus in Milton...

Editorial: Educational leadership on the threshold of a post-pandemic world

Educational leadership on the threshold of a post-pandemic world

Schools, colleges and universities after Covid-19

Educational leadership on the threshold of a post-pandemic world

Schools, colleges and universities after Covid-19