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Education & Covid-19: BERA Small Grants Fund research reports

This series of reports presents the findings and recommendations of 14 research projects  that have investigated Covid-19's impact on important aspects of education and educational research. This...

Social-emotional competences: Conceptualisation, childhood inequalities and predictive value for socioeconomic attainment in adulthood

The development of social and emotional competences is increasingly being recognised as essential for children’s adaptive development in school as well as in other settings and later life (OECD,...

Contemporary curriculum debates in Early Childhood Education and Care – 3

Contemporary curriculum debates in Early Childhood Education and Care

Online registration for this event has now closed, to register please email events@bera.ac.uk.   #BERA_EYFS @BERANews @ececsig With the revised Early Years Foundation Stage guidance being...

Contemporary curriculum debates in Early Childhood Education and Care – 3

With the revised Early Years Foundation Stage guidance being used by early adopters we argue that now is a good time to focus on revisiting the function of Early Childhood Education and Care...

We need an evidence-based expert approach to the post-pandemic recovery of young people

In December 2020, the Westminster government promised to set up an expert group to consider solutions to the huge variability of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on pupils’ educational...

Contemporary curriculum debates in Early Childhood Education and Care – 2

Contemporary curriculum debates in Early Childhood Education and Care

Online registration for this event has now closed, to register please email events@bera.ac.uk.   #BERA_EYFS @BERANews @ececsig With the revised Early Years Foundation Stage guidance being...

Contemporary curriculum debates in Early Childhood Education and Care – 2

With the revised Early Years Foundation Stage guidance being used by early adopters we argue that now is a good time to focus on revisiting the function of Early Childhood Education and Care...

Contemporary curriculum debates in Early Childhood Education and Care – 1

Contemporary curriculum debates in Early Childhood Education and Care

Online registration for this event has now closed, please email events@bera.ac.uk to register. #BERA_EYFS @BERANews @ececsig With the revised Early Years Foundation Stage guidance being used...

Contemporary curriculum debates in Early Childhood Education and Care – 1

With the revised Early Years Foundation Stage guidance being used by early adopters we argue that now is a good time to focus on revisiting the function of Early Childhood Education and Care...

The Covid-19 pandemic and the early years workforce

The evidence is clear that motivated, knowledgeable and experienced staff are key to supporting children’s development in early years settings (see for example Melhuish, Ereky-Stevens, &...

What ‘building back better’ really means for our children: Anne Longfield’s final speech as the children’s commissioner for England

On February 17 2021, Anne Longfield OBE gave her final speech as the children’s commissioner for England. Her words were a clarion cry for the UK’s children, who for the past 12 months have...

BERA Bites, issue 6: Researching education & mental health: From ‘Where are we now?’ to ‘What next?’

BERA Bites

The mental health and wellbeing of learners and teaching staff rank among some of the most pressing issues facing education in the coming decade. Even before the Covid-19 crisis hit, there was...