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Developing (language) learning opportunities for precarious migrant workers at higher education institutions

Learning for all: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

Charting possibilities, challenges & recommendations

Getting it out there: how, where, why?

Writing for publication is widely understood as a central activity for researchers, and, since their institutions have the same ambition, perhaps the one by which researchers are ultimately...

Getting it out there: how, where, why?

Writing for publication is widely understood as a central activity for researchers, and, since their institutions have the same ambition, perhaps the one by which researchers are ultimately...

SIG Forum Meeting – Post-Compulsory and Lifelong Learning SIG

Join the Post-Compulsory and Lifelong Learning SIG for an opportunity to share a window into your research and to open the door to potential collaborations for future work.  We will be offering...

How do adults read ebooks? Exploring the connection to motivation and experience with e-reading

When and where do adults read? For how long at a time? Answers to these questions might be helpful in finding ways for more adults to incorporate reading for pleasure into their busy everyday...

Maths in other subjects: Expanding the definition of post-16 maths participation

The British prime minister, Rishi Sunak, lately announced his ambition ‘to move towards all children studying some form of maths to 18’ (Sunak, 2023), prompting questions about what maths this...

Higher education in further education: A bridge to widening participation?

Widening participation in higher education (HE) among underrepresented social groups has been a focus of successive UK governments since the 1960s. But is this actually being achieved? Delivering...

BERA Conference 2023 – Call for Abstract Reviewers

Would you be willing to act as a reviewer for abstracts submitted to the BERA Annual Conference 2023? To be involved, you will need to: be a BERA Member be available to referee abstracts...

Don’t be afraid of maths: If I can do it, you can too!

An example of students’ negativity to mathematics, according to Swan (2004, p. 2), was a question asked of four students aged nine and their teacher, ‘if Mathematics were a food, what would it...

SIG Forum Meeting – Post-Compulsory and Lifelong Learning

Join the Post-Compulsory and Lifelong Learning SIG annual meeting to network with colleagues, learn about the activities of the SIG over the last year and plans for 2023 This meeting will be...

‘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...

Contesting contemporary policy in UK further education

Individual papers presented under the theme Post-Compulsory and Lifelong Learning Chair: Bill Esmond IN THIS SESSION Enriching the curriculum  Prof Liz Atkins, Associate Professor Bill...