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Ethnicity and the early years workforce in maintained nursery schools across England

In this blog post, Mona Sakr and Shaddai Tembo recap key points from their recent BERA event on race and ethnicity in the early years workforce in maintained nursery schools in England. As part...

Educators learning through communities of philosophical enquiry

‘Community’ is suggestive of collectivism and plurality, while ‘enquiry’ evokes processes of exploration led by pressing questions or concerns. Combining these concepts and practices is at...

Racism and discomfort in the community of philosophical enquiry: Darren Chetty in conversation with Joanna Haynes

Darren Chetty has written a number of articles relating to Philosophy for Children, racism and multiculturalism. The Dwelling Together film referred to in this interview shows him facilitating...

What about place? Education, identity and ecological justice

Education plays a primary role in identity formation, including the process of national-identity building, which is reflected in education policies, national curricula and teaching practices. In...

BERA BCF Curriculum Investigation Grant Winner awarded Betty Campbell Diversity Award

Llanwern High School, the 2021 BCF Curriculum Investigation Grant winners have been awarded the first Betty Campbell MBe award for promoting the contributions and perspectives of Black, Asian and...

‘Learning for All’

BERA funded six small grants in 2022/23 under the title “Learning for all”. These grants supported projects which examine educational provision in its widest sense that seeks to provide or...

Supporting Black students in Higher Education

Individual papers presented under the theme Race, Ethnicity and Education Chair: Pere Ayling IN THIS SESSION Academic reflections on experiences of BAME students in Higher Education during...

School exclusions: What does research tell us about the scale of the problem and challenges?

School exclusion is a hot issue within education and there is growing concern about the numbers of exclusions and off-rolling in schools in England. In particular, a number of studies have drawn...

Envisioning a gold standard: Understanding higher education institutions’ outlook for race equality policies, practices & future initiatives

Race & Education: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

Supported by BERA's Small Grants Fund, this study considered race, racism and racial equality within UK higher education institutions (HEIs). Although there has been significant progress in...

Why is it that we can predict every year which types of students will have been excluded from school?

BERA Early Career Researcher Network Symposium Series 2022

While the numbers may change, the trends are largely the same: young people from certain minority ethnic groups, those who receive free school meals, those who are care-experienced or who are...

Majority of British Pakistanis are actually Kashmiris (who speak Pahari)

Since 1991 our schools have been gathering ethnicity data. This has helped us to know how many children were from which ethnic group and what language they spoke. The exception has been children...

Variation in Black students’ conceptions of academic support: A phenomenographic study

Race & Education: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

Inequalities in the educational achievement of minoritised students in higher education (HE) appear in a wide range of national contexts (Richardson, 2018), and are often attributed to structural...