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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...
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...
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,...
The concept of “British values”, as promoted by the government in its anti-terrorism strategy, is leaving many school pupils baffled. And few of them have even heard of the “Prevent”...
More than half of secondary school pupils believe that people have souls, a survey has revealed. Almost as many – 45 per cent – say they believe in God while 52 per cent agree with the...
The death of teaching of the British Empire in English schools has been greatly exaggerated. And, contrary to occasional assertions by politicians, children are not being given a negative account...
Fewer than half of young secondary school pupils think their views are taken seriously by those educating them, a major new study has found. Perhaps unsurprisingly, almost all of their teachers...
The papers for the 41st BERA AGM are available to download from this page. As previously noted, the meeting takes place at 5pm on Monday 12th September in the Radisson Blu Hotel in Leeds.
This roundtable event brought together researchers with experience of carrying out research within conflict and post conflict contexts. The aim was to explore the methodological considerations...
BERA's British Curriculum Forum (BCF) held its launch on Saturday June 18th 2016. Over the last decade we have witnessed the radical transformation of the British educational landscape. This BC...
A new issue of Review of Education has been published, featuring:Steve Strand - Do some schools narrow the gap? Differential school effectiveness revisited R. A. Ellis and P. Goodyear - Models of...
BERA is delighted to announce the appointment of a new editorial team for the British Journal of Educational Technology (BJET).After a highly competitive process, Carina Girvan, Sara Hennessy,...