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Applications now open for the 2016 ACU Commonwealth Summer School

Applications are now open for the 2016 ACU Commonwealth Summer School. This year the theme is ‘The Sustainable Development Goals: what role for universities?’ and the event is to be hosted by...

BERA Conference 2016 – Abstract reviewers needed

Would you be willing to act as a reviewer for abstracts submitted to the BERA Annual Conference?To be involved, you will need to be available to referee abstracts online between the 8th February...

An answer to the question of impact

In their recent Research Intelligence article Cain and Hayward posed questions related to ways in which educational research might inform teaching and learning and the implications of ‘impact’...

Slow Education leads to rich and balanced learning

In 1986 Italian food journalist Carlo Petrini was walking through Rome with friends. On reaching the Spanish steps they were faced with a new addition to the city’s ancient architecture – A...

BERA Research Commission 2015/2017- Poverty and Policy Advocacy

The Research Commission on Poverty and Policy Advocacy Child poverty is increasing in the UK. But how does that play out differently in the four UK jurisdictions, in relation to education? How do...

BERA Research Commission 2015/2017- Cost, Value and Quality in Professional Learning: promoting economic literacy in medical and teacher education

How are we to understand the cost, value and quality of university-based professional learning and development? This BERA Research Commission has examined the role of universities in professional...

The implementation of the high impact findings from Professor Hattie’s seminal work “Visible Learning – A synthesis of over 800 meta-analyses relating to achievement”

“It is perhaps education’s equivalent to the search for the Holy Grail” commented Warwick Mansell on 23 September 2009. From here came the arrival of, for some people, an age of...

Poverty & Education in four jurisdictions and internationally

Research Commission: Poverty and Policy Advocacy

The 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...

Teaching reading: what are our long term goals?

In the light of the House of Commons Education Committee Inquiry into the purpose and quality of education, I’ve been pondering on the primary profession’s long-term goals for teaching reading...

‘I don’t need the British to communicate in English’. Social connectedness and the international student experience

The ‘international student experience’ is of increasing interest to researchers, educators and policy-makers alike. Social connectedness has been found to be key to the quality of this...

BERA Research Commission 2015/2017 –Reviewing the Potential and Challenges of Developing STEAM Education

Reviewing the Potential and Challenges of Developing STEAM Education through CreativePedagogies for 21st Century Learning: how can school curricula be broadened towards a more responsive,...

Career Long Professional Learning as a Disposition

Career-long professional learning and professional development is something we have been thinking and talking about for many years now, but we don't seem to have cracked this particular conundrum...