Developing education research capacity: What can government do?

In developing the National Strategy of Educational Research and Enquiry (NSERE), the Welsh government conducted several evidence reviews to understand how to foster educational research capacity...

BERA funds over £40,000 of research on race and ethnicity

We are delighted to announce new funding looking at aspects of race and ethnicity across the education sector. There are five recipients of the new round of small grant funding: Melissa Jogie...

Childhood bereavement: A call for national policy that considers young people’s views

This blog reflects on a study recently published in Review of Education that investigated teachers' perspectives on supporting bereaved children in British primary schools (Abraham-Steele &...

Education: The State of the Discipline – BERA publishes new report and three tenders

BERA has published the first report from a major project that aims to comprehensively map the state of education as an academic discipline in universities, as a field of practice, and as a...

Education: The State of the Discipline. Systematic scoping review of the literature

A systematic scoping review of the literature on the structures & processes that influence research activities in the UK

BERA Response to the Public Consultation on the ITT Market Review (ITTMRR)

BERA below is publishing our full statement in response to the public consultation on the ITT Market Review (ITTMRR) - the full statement here is also available as a download below. In addition we...

BERA Statement on the Initial Teacher Training Market Review Report

BERA is extremely concerned about the recommendations made in the Initial Teacher Training Market Review Report (MRR) commissioned by the Department for Education. We are particularly troubled...

Thinking like a teacher: Is the early career framework the answer to early career teachers’ prayers?

It’s a declaration that every teacher educator has heard from their trainees: ‘I’ve passed all the teaching standards so now I am a teacher!’ The current structure of teacher education...

Examining the impact of Covid-19 on children’s centres in Bristol

Education & Covid-19: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

Lessons for policy, practice & promoting life chances in the early years

Educational underachievement in Northern Ireland: Review of research

The term ‘educational underachievement’ is common in policy and academic discourse relating to education in Northern Ireland and beyond, despite the ambiguity created by its wide variety of...

A Manifesto for Education for Environmental Sustainability: Launch

Online registration for this event has now closed, please email events@bera.ac.uk to register. #BERA_Manifesto @BERANews   Education has a key role to play in creating long-term responses to...

The new model music curriculum: A step far enough?

In the foreword to the new model music curriculum, schools minister Nick Gibb states that it ‘is designed to assist rather than to prescribe’ (DfE, 2021, p. 2). Notably, there is much detail...