Education for Environmental Sustainability: A Guide for Schools

The team behind the BERA 2021 Research Commission on Education for Environmental Sustainability have published a guide for secondary schools on the preliminary findings of their...

Education for Environmental Sustainability: A Community Guide

The team behind the BERA 2021 Research Commission on Education for Environmental Sustainability have published a community guide based on the preliminary findings of their work. Working with...

Editorial: Spotlight on SEND: Curriculum design and practice

Spotlight on SEND: Curriculum design and practice

On 24 March 2022, the British Curriculum Forum (BCF) ran the Spotlight on SEND: Curriculum Design and Practice online event. The event focused attention on research-informed curriculum design and...

Spotlight on SEND: Curriculum design and practice

On 24 March 2022, the British Curriculum Forum (BCF) ran the Spotlight on SEND: Curriculum Design and Practice online event. The event focused attention on research-informed curriculum design and...

The National Framework for Inclusion: Supporting inclusive practices in Scotland

Spotlight on SEND: Curriculum design and practice

Supporting student teachers and teachers to enact inclusive approaches in Scottish schools is a significant part of the Scottish Universities Inclusion Group’s (SUIG) work. SUIG is a...

All things inclusion: Presentation overviews and discussions from parallel session A

Spotlight on SEND: Curriculum design and practice

As chair of parallel session A for the BCF Spotlight on SEND event in March 2022, I was delighted to welcome our speakers and share questions from our delegates.  The session began with a...

Where is the love? Invoking dispolitical love as a force for change in SEND policy and practice

Spotlight on SEND: Curriculum design and practice

Where is the love in special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) policy? Politicising love, as a force for driving social justice and change, has deep roots in Black feminist activism (Nash,...

How much the price for inclusion in the English secondary history curriculum?

In response to written questions from Parliament’s Petition Committee on 9 March 2021, the then Minister of State for School Standards, Nick Gibb MP, made it clear that there was no plan to make...

Evidence-based practice in schools: What’s really going on?

Improving educational outcomes through high-quality provision is one of the main aims of education systems across the world. Over recent decades there has been a concerted move by policymakers in...

Food banks in schools and the ‘cost of living’ crisis

In the UK, over 2.6 million children experience food insecurity, which is defined as those who have limited or unreliable access to food due to a lack of financial resources (Power et al., 2020;...

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...

Race & Education: BERA Small Grants Fund research

This series of reports presents the findings and recommendations of five research projects that have investigated aspects of race and ethnicity across the education sector. Supported by BERA's...