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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...

Education for sustainability: Connecting learners with nature

Education has become an increasingly important part of the international agenda to raise awareness of how we can support action to shape a more sustainable way of life (Rieckmann, 2012). Enshrined...

Review of Education announces winners of its Early Career Researchers Award 2021

This year Review of Education launched a new award to support two new scholars who have completed an ambitious and innovative research project in the course of their doctorate to achieve impact...

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...

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...

Fellowship of the Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS)

BERA is looking for suggestions and nominations for members to become Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences. As an accredited learned society, we are entitled to make nominations that have the...

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)...

Cassie Buchanan OBE

Executive Headteacher

Cassie Buchanan is the executive headteacher of Charles Dickens Primary School and Nursery based in Southwark, London and the CEO of The Charter Schools Educational Trust, a growing trust of...

Brendan Coulson

Brendan Coulson is a principal lecturer at Nottingham Trent University and is currently a trustee for the Raleigh Learning Trust. Brendan has achieved a first-class computer science degree, PGCE,...

Jean Gross CBE

Author and Independent Consultant

Jean Gross was formerly England’s Communication Champion for children and young people, responsible for promoting the importance of good language skills. She chaired the 2018 ‘Bercow: Ten...

Sandra Mathers

Senior Researcher

Sandra is known nationally and internationally for policy-relevant research on early years education and care (ECEC), with a strong focus on educational inequality. Her experience includes...

Researching in Covid-era schools

Paul Willis, in Learning to Labour (Willis, 1977), joins his teenage research subjects in their extracurricular trips to the pub, in the name of holistic ethnography. I used to use this anecdote...