BERA held a successful event on ‘Teacher Education – what next?’ on 11th June 2015. Hosted and introduced by Lord Puttnam, a packed room heard BERA President Ian Menter introduce the issue and draw from the final report of the BERA-RSA Inquiry into Research and Education. Our panel of speakers then responded and set out how they saw the increasingly divergent situations in the four nations of the United Kingdom. There was a strong consensus in the room about a shared vision of research-rich teaching and teacher education with an acknowledgement that the wider context, particularly in England, is a very challenging one. It was also agreed that further work was needed with a range of partners about what that vision does and might mean in practice. This will be a continuing area of work for BERA in the months ahead.

The panel of speakers were Geoff Whitty, Graham Donaldson, Sir Alasdair Macdonald and Christine Blower.