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Sub-Saharan faces in Caucasian spaces: Black African international PhD students’ experiences in the UK

BERA Conference 2023

In the academic year 2020/2021, the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) documented a total of 605,000 international students who were enrolled in UK higher education institutions. Out of...

Spring 2024

Research Intelligence issue 158: Unheard voices: Language education outside the mainstream

Unlocking the power of immigrant teachers: Transforming education

Today’s superdiverse educational landscape, marked by a global teacher shortage crisis worsened by Covid-19, heightens the demand for educators, especially in countries like Australia and the...

Opportunity to help address the challenging histories of UK education’s past

BERA is supporting the British Psychological Society (BPS) in creating a pilot teaching resource for secondary school students on the history of IQ testing in the UK education system. The resource...

British Educational Research Journal: Call for special issues (2024)

This opportunity is now closed. The incoming editors of the British Educational Research Journal (BERJ) intend to publish a number of special issues during their tenure, which commences in...

Jumping and pushing through the cruel optimism of racial justice work

BERA Conference 2023

Asking research participants ‘How did you come to be leading antiracism work across your school – were you pushed or did you jump?’ elicited varied responses, with most citing one event as a...

Reviewing the term EAL from an antiracist multilingual perspective

This blog post is based on a doctoral research study that explored perceptions and experiences of multiculturalism of teachers, students and parents in four mainstream primary schools in the...

SIG Forum Meeting – Race, Ethnicity and Education

Join the Race, Ethnicity and Education SIG meeting to network with colleagues, learn about the activities of the SIG and plans for 2023 and onwards. This meeting will be hosted online, where you...

Exposing the fate of Black Caribbean girls in secondary schools in England

Why are Black Caribbean girls underachieving? When I was mentoring in secondary schools there were plentiful government initiatives focused on raising attainment for Black Caribbean boys in light...

Winter 2023/24

Research Intelligence issue 157: Research & practice on migration & education across the four nations of the UK

BERA Announces the 2023 Academic Citizen of the Year

BERA is delighted to announce Dr Victoria Showunmi as the inaugural recipient of BERA’s Academic Citizen of the Year award. This new award was created to honour a member of the wider academic...

Guest editing opportunity for Research Intelligence, issue 159

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