A baccalaureate curriculum
The Times Education Commission produced its final report in June 2022, making forty-five recommendations for reforming the English education system. The recommendations ranged from the banal –...
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Higher education in further education: A bridge to widening participation?
Widening participation in higher education (HE) among underrepresented social groups has been a focus of successive UK governments since the 1960s. But is this actually being achieved? Delivering...
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2023 BERA School Research Award
BERA is pleased to announce our new award aimed at encouraging the development of research skills in the curriculum of secondary schools. The BERA School Research Award aims to promote the value...
Collaborative learning within custodial education
The benefits of collaborative learning are clearly outlined in educational discourse, including: increased achievements, widening knowledge, improvement in teamwork skills and deeper critical...
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Don’t be afraid of maths: If I can do it, you can too!
An example of students’ negativity to mathematics, according to Swan (2004, p. 2), was a question asked of four students aged nine and their teacher, ‘if Mathematics were a food, what would it...
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Winter 2022/23
Research Intelligence issue 153: Off the cutting room floor: Learning from research when things do not go as planned
The value of student researcher groups in carrying out peer evaluation in schools and colleges
Student researcher groups are small groups of secondary school and A-level college students, aged 13 to 18, who evaluate outreach activities – such as motivational speakers, study skills...
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Editorial: Transitions, wellbeing and mental health: Education after lockdown
This special issue focuses on the experiences of educators and students returning to the classroom post-lockdown. We have included contributions from lecturers, students and academics to capture a...
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Education in transition: Challenges and opportunities post-lockdown
The Covid-19 pandemic heralded a host of unexpected challenges and rapid changes for learners and educators worldwide and, more than two years on, continues to have a major influence on key...
Continue reading blog postTransitions, wellbeing and mental health: Education after lockdown
It is important to mark the Covid-19 lockdown as a significant transition which educators and students experienced. We all, to varying degrees, experienced a range of social, cultural and...
Transitions, wellbeing and mental health: Education after lockdown
The stresses and strains affecting the mental health and wellbeing of those working in education settings are well documented and were evident long before Covid-19 was placed into the mix (Kidger...
Continue reading blog postCall for papers: What place for activism in, for and as education?
A proposed special issue of the British Educational Research Journal
