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Open educational resources offer promise for more equitable teaching and learning

The past year and the pivot to online learning has highlighted and exacerbated inequities in education systems around the world. It is more apparent than ever that our schools must do better at...

Martin Weller

Martin Weller is a professor of educational technology at the Open University. Weller chaired the Open University’s first major e-learning course, T171, in 1999 with nearly 15,000 students. He...

Jack Whitehead

Visiting Professor of Education

Jack Whitehead is a Visiting Professor at the University of Cumbria. He is a former president of the British Educational Research Association and Distinguished Scholar in Residence at Westminster...

Marie Huxtable

Visiting Research Fellow

Marie Huxtable practiced as an Educational Psychologist in English Local Authorities. For the final 15 years of her career she developed and implemented an inclusive educational policy to improve...

Gaurav Dubay

Evidence Lead in Education

Gaurav Dubay is Head of English at a unique inner-city grammar school in Birmingham. In addition to this, he works as the English Subject Network Lead for the King Edward VI Trust and as an...

Postgraduate research students’ experiences of the coronavirus pandemic

The ongoing coronavirus pandemic has caused most postgraduate research (PGR) students to encounter research restrictions and undertake their research duties from home (see Burridge et al., 2020)....

Distance learning & initial teacher education: Making connections in a virtual world

The peaks and troughs of the Covid-19 pandemic continue to impact on almost every aspect of our daily lives, and initial teacher education (ITE) is by no means an exception. Reflecting on changes...

Jingwen Zhang

Jingwen Zhang is a PhD candidate at the School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester. Her PhD focuses on active ageing and rural–urban health inequality in China. She is interested in...

Victoria Christodoulides

Victoria Christodoulides is an SWDTP scholarship PhD student within the Health Department at the University of Bath. Victoria’s project focuses on co-exploring how childhood trauma recovery...

Nerys Defis

Having previously worked in various primary and initial teacher education settings, Nerys is currently a curriculum tutor on the Open University Partnership’s PGCE programme in Wales. Her...

BERA Response to the Public Consultation on the ITT Market Review (ITTMRR)

BERA below is publishing our full statement in response to the public consultation on the ITT Market Review (ITTMRR) - the full statement here is also available as a download below. In addition we...

Beyond postures: How yoga philosophy can foster non-violence in our classrooms

In A Sanskrit Dictionary, Monier-Williams (1899, p. 854) defines yoga as ‘an application of the thoughts, abstract contemplation, meditation, (esp.) self-concentration, abstract meditation and...