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High take-up of private tuition by primary school pupils revealed
Nearly half of 11-year-olds among some minority ethnic groups in the UK are receiving private tuition outside of school, research has revealed.Children categorised as from Chinese, black or Indian...
Scottish and English teenagers split on whether university should be free
A difference of opinion between English and Scottish young people on how higher education should be funded has been captured in a study being presented to BERA today.Around three quarters of...
Can We Stop It? Yes We Can! Stamping Out English Cultural “imperialism”
I subscribe to The London Review of Books (LRB). The main article on May 7th 2015 was about free schools and academies. It provoked a vigorous debate (on 21/5. 4/6 and 18/6) with serious...
Continue reading blog postCan Social Realism Do Social Justice?
Our BERA presentation, ‘Can Social Realism Do Social Justice: Debating the Warrants for Curriculum Knowledge Selection’, is based on a paper of the same title, soon to be available online from...
Continue reading blog postThe potential of inter-professional learning in supporting children with speech, language and communication needs
You may be aware of two pieces of research recently published about children’s speech, language and communication needs. The National Literacy Trust (Read On Get On campaign) commissioned James...
Continue reading blog postHow can educational researchers respond to the refugee crisis?
Building on discussions at ECER 2015 in Budapest, BERA members and delegates used the opportunity of being gathered at the annual conference in Belfast to discuss how they might individually and...
BERA SAGE Public Impact Award
BERA in collaboration with SAGE Publishing, are pleased to confirm the winners of this year's Public Impact Award: Dr Alice Bradbury and Dr Guy Roberts-Holmes: (UCL-IoE).They were nominated...
Knowledge, education and research: making common cause across communities of practice
This BERA presidential address considers how knowledge, education and research interact in practice, as the institutional structures that support them change. Many of the efforts at large-scale...
The Trials of Evidence-Based Practice in Education
Over the past decade there has been an ongoing debate in the UK regarding the notion of evidence-based practice as applied to education. Mirroring debates in the US and elsewhere, concerns have...
Pathways from Research to Policy: Implications for Researchers
In the last decade, there has been renewed interest in how policy makers in various fields use research in their decision making. Researchers wonder why some research ends up being influential in...