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Building a curriculum for a sustainable future, democratically

Our planet is currently undergoing a climate crisis, exacerbated by pollution, exploitation and anthropogenic activity (WWT, 2019). Education is a fundamental tool in helping to reduce further...

Are the Sustainable Development Goals sustainable?

Agreed in 2015 by the member states of the United Nations, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the primary international instrument ‘to end poverty in all its forms everywhere’....

Geographies of elite higher education participation: An urban ‘escalator’ effect

There is increasing attention on geographic inequalities in access to higher education (HE). This blog summarises a recently published article (Davies, Donnelly, & Sandoval-Hernandez, 2021)...

The great algorithm fiasco

When A-level examinations were cancelled in March 2020, the government instructed the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual) to instead issue ‘calculated grades’ based...

Social-emotional competences: Conceptualisation, childhood inequalities and predictive value for socioeconomic attainment in adulthood

The development of social and emotional competences is increasingly being recognised as essential for children’s adaptive development in school as well as in other settings and later life (OECD,...

Access to education in a time of pan(dem)ic in Jamaica: Rural and urban primary schools’ experience

Education & Covid-19: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

As the scale of the Covid-19 pandemic became clear, on 14 March 2020 the Jamaican government moved teaching and learning online and primary schools remained closed for the remainder of the school...

The free school meal voucher scheme & children’s access to food during the Covid-19 crisis

Education & Covid-19: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

With schools closed in the UK in response to the Covid-19 crisis, children who would normally receive free school meals were at an elevated risk of food insecurity. However, the voucher scheme...

Is ‘lost learning’ the new crisis in education?

Concerns around lost learning have been a pervasive and recurrent theme of late – all of which can be traced back to the closing of schools over the past year in response to the Covid-19...

Policy Options & Consequences: Education System Design – perspectives from across the UK

Drawing on and celebrating the launch of the recent publication Education System Design: Foundations, Policy Options and Consequences, this webinar introduces speakers from the four nations and...

Policy Options & Consequences: Education System Design – perspectives from across the UK

Online registration for this event has now closed, to register please email events@bera.ac.uk   #BERAEdPolicy @BERANews Drawing on and celebrating the launch of the recent publication...

The Skills for Jobs white paper: A chance to provide ‘flexibility’

The UK government’s Skills for Jobs white paper is clearly an attempt to realign post-16 education around the needs of employers. It presents a challenge for higher education to develop an...

Kate Sida-Nicholls

I was an English teacher for eighteen years before I began my role in ITE as the course leader for the secondary programme with Suffolk and Norfolk SCITT (one of the largest SCITTs in the country)...