Educational bankruptcy
Everything changes. Nothing could be more true; nothing could be more relevant to the field of education today. And yet whilst the educational landscape seems to change by the attosecond, never...
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Guardianship of subjects in 2016
I very much welcome the revival of the British Curriculum Forum and was delighted to attend the recent conference “Investigating Knowledge and the Curriculum”. My reason for attending is that...
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Voices in the Air
My third daughter works in New York: the distance hasn’t changed the frequency of her communication with her sisters or her parents, and, at least once a week, she has a FaceTime conversation...
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European Educational Research Journal Open Call for papers
The EU's Four Freedoms: moving people, capital, goods and services across the field of European education The European market and the Union are based on, and shaped by, the Four Freedoms. These...
Calling time on chaos: our personal responsibilities for R&D in a self-improving education system
Politicians and teachers find access to educational research problematic. Teachers call for open access to research journals and some national teachers’ councils provide this (Scotland and the...
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Conference 2016 videos
Tuesday 13th September 2016 Professor Poonam Batra wednesday 14th September 2016 Ms Lesley Emerson thursday 15th September 2016 Professor Siân Bayne
Press Release – Children “can pass phonics test without extensive phonic knowledge”
The government’s assessment of early reading, taken by hundreds of thousands of five- and six-year-olds in England every year, is not testing what it is supposed to test, research has...
Press Release – Vast differences in take-up of private tuition revealed
Primary school children in London are more than eight times as likely to have received private tuition as their counterparts in Scotland, research being presented to BERA today has revealed. Some...
Press Release – Most teenagers “believe they have a soul”
More than half of secondary school pupils believe that people have souls, a survey has revealed. Almost as many – 45 per cent – say they believe in God while 52 per cent agree with the...
Press Release – Pupils left puzzled by the term “British values”
The concept of “British values”, as promoted by the government in its anti-terrorism strategy, is leaving many school pupils baffled. And few of them have even heard of the “Prevent”...
Royal Society and British Academy launch project to transform educational research in the UK
The Royal Society and British Academy are launching a project today (14 September 2016) to determine how best to harness new and up-to-date research methodologies, using the latest technologies,...