Languages provision in UK further education

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‘Previously nobody would have been interested in Arabic. But now we have hundreds and hundreds of Syrian refugees and people working with them. So that sort of guides me when thinking of...

Sub-Saharan faces in Caucasian spaces: Black African international PhD students’ experiences in the UK

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In the academic year 2020/2021, the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) documented a total of 605,000 international students who were enrolled in UK higher education institutions. Out of...

Spring 2024

Research Intelligence issue 158: Unheard voices: Language education outside the mainstream

The broken pillar: AI for feedback generation and the erosion of students’ trust

Artificial intelligence in educational research and practice

Learning unfolds as a dialogue between a student and a more knowledgeable other – in higher education, a lecturer – a dialogue marked by mutual respect, responsibility and trust as the key...

Academics’ perspectives on students’ use of ChatGPT: Contain, constrain or embrace the genie?

Artificial intelligence in educational research and practice

Introduction This blog post is a reflection on the UNESCO report (Miao & Holmes, 2023), which underscores the importance of centring educators in the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution in...

Wellbeing through the expressive arts: Supporting both student teachers and pupils in the classroom

Artificial intelligence in educational research and practice

During the Covid-19 pandemic emerging evidence showed the toll that the pandemic was having on the mental health of children (Anna Freud, 2020). We developed a module for our primary student...

My first conference: View from a PhD student

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Trying to secure funding for a PhD analysing primary school food education policy in England, I stumbled upon the BERA PhD fund and made it to the final three candidates. Although ultimately...

Expert Panel on Educational Research Funding

BERA Council has agreed to establish an expert panel to investigate the situation regarding funding for educational research in the UK. David James (Cardiff University, and chair of the REF 2021...

The role of in-person tutorials

The practices implemented in higher mathematics education are in a constant state of change, and where the research often lags the implementation. Recently, it has become evident that remote and...

One size does not fit all: Supporting dyspraxic students in higher education in England

Dyspraxia, also known as developmental coordination disorder (DCD), is a lifelong, neurodevelopmental disorder which affects an estimated 10 per cent of the UK population (Dyspraxia Foundation,...

Higher education disadvantage: Enhancing a community through modes of delivery

From a sociological perspective, Bourdieu (1986) sees cultural capital as non-economic resources such as education and knowledge, while social mobility is the ability to move up or down the social...

Teaching ‘policy analysis’ through a case-based approach in higher education: Context of Pakistan

Teaching a course on ‘policy analysis’ remains challenging for several reasons: drawing from multiple theoretical threads (Heck, 2004); relying mainly on ‘desk reviews’ of policies as...