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GCSE results published by the Department for Education (DfE) show enormous variations between the performance of English secondary schools. If we are serious about school improvement then it is...
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GCSE results published by the Department for Education (DfE) show enormous variations between the performance of English secondary schools. If we are serious about school improvement then it is...
Continue reading blog postBERA is delighted to announce the appointment of a new editorial team for the British Journal of Educational Technology (BJET).After a highly competitive process, Carina Girvan, Sara Hennessy,...
Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk for details of how to register onsite. Please join us at Bedford College for a one-day...
There is something both alluring and disquieting about theories which can be summed up as a catchy combination of letters and numbers. They create a hook, something which we can engage with, may...
Continue reading blog postThe BERA Commission on Poverty and Policy Advocacy: seminar series Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk for details of how to...
Labelling and notions of fixed ability are prevalent in our education system. Students are divided into groups according to their prior attainment and ‘appropriate’ work is provided as a...
Continue reading blog postIs it possible to think about education as adventure? This is a question I raised in a recent article I wrote for the Journal of Education Administration and History (Tamboukou 2016). The idea...
Continue reading blog postRecently research sponsored by the Independent Schools Council (ISC) was released that “attending an Independent school in England is associated with the equivalent of two additional years of...
Continue reading blog postIn a recently published article[i] in the Journal of Education Policy (JEP), I traced how governors with ‘skills’ are increasingly privileged over representative governors. I wrote about the...
Continue reading blog postOnline registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk for details of how to register onsite.Central to research on conflict are issues of social...
Teacher education across the four nations of the UK is undergoing a period of significant change. This seminar, hosted by the Teacher Education and Development SIG, explores the emergence of...
Online registration has now closed. If you want to attend this event, please email events@bera.ac.uk for details of how to register onsite.A series of events over two days which aim to develop...