REF 2021 Update
Many thanks to those members who self-nominated for the REF panel. As you know, BERA Council established a small group led by Professor John Leach with the support of Professor Margaret...
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BERA Response to the DfE consultation on Primary Assessment in England
BERA President, Gemma Moss responded on the organisation's behalf to the recent consultation. This was based upon our earlier submission to the Education Select Committee and our ongoing support...
2017 Masters Dissertation Award Winner
Every year the British Educational Research Association recognises academic excellence and rigour in research by a Master of Education student. The award is granted to a Master of Education...
BERA Council Election Results
We are delighted to confirm that the following colleagues were elected to BERA Council: Dr Mhairi Beaton (University of Aberdeen) Professor Gabrielle Ivinson (Manchester Metropolitan...
BERA’s response to the HEFCE consultation on the next REF
BERA commissioned Andrew Pollard, Chair of the Education sub-panel in the last REF exercise, to draft our response to the HEFCE consultation on the second Research Excellence Framework. This was...
Former BERA President honoured
Many congratulations to former BERA President John Furlong who received an OBE in the recent New Year's Honours. John received his award in recognition of his work on educational research and...
Making the Case for the Social Sciences – Education
BERA has partnered with the Academy of Social Sciences and Routledge, Taylor & Francis to bring together a wide-ranging collection of impactful research on education that has improved standards of...
BCF-BERA Routledge Curriculum Journal Prize
This award is made annually and acknowledges the importance of collaborative work between schools and universities to support and encourage excellence in curriculum development. We are delighted...
AcSS Briefing – Making the best of Brexit: Supporting UK Science, Higher Education and Research for the Future
The Academy of Social Sciences and its Campaign for Social Science have published a briefing note addressing the consequences of the prolonged period of uncertainty in the three months since the...
Press Release – Vast differences in take-up of private tuition revealed
Primary school children in London are more than eight times as likely to have received private tuition as their counterparts in Scotland, research being presented to BERA today has revealed. Some...
Press Release – Children “can pass phonics test without extensive phonic knowledge”
The government’s assessment of early reading, taken by hundreds of thousands of five- and six-year-olds in England every year, is not testing what it is supposed to test, research has...
Royal Society and British Academy launch project to transform educational research in the UK
The Royal Society and British Academy are launching a project today (14 September 2016) to determine how best to harness new and up-to-date research methodologies, using the latest technologies,...