With the UK Labour government commissioning Professor Becky Francis to review England’s national curriculum, we have an opportunity to reconsider not just what children should learn but how.

Parental engagement significantly boosts children’s academic success, with evidence from around the world demonstrating an average of four months of additional progress over a single ...

A research-informed pedagogy Case-based learning (CBL) bridges the gap between theory and practice by immersing students in real-world scenarios that are grounded ...

Fiona Patrick is a senior lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Glasgow. She is a member of the Cultures, Literacy, Inclusion and Pedagogy research and teaching group (CLIP) and of ...

Ed Penn has recently completed a doctorate at the University of Oxford’s Department of Education and teaches academic skills at two Oxford colleges.

BERA hosts seminars, symposia series and workshops online and in person across the UK. Find out more about our upcoming events below.

The Sexualities & Gender SIG provides a forum to critically engage with how gender and sexuality research matters in the inter-disciplinary field of education and how this research can inform policy, ...

All things higher education research, policy, and practice. The transition from elite to mass higher education systems is a significant global development that forms the broader context for ...

Several months ago, I went to see Wicked, the Broadway musical recently adapted for film. While I initially expected a form of escapist entertainment, I instead found myself engaged with ...

Savannah Gill is a class teacher at a small primary school in Cambridgeshire and a student at the University of Cambridge. Her dissertation explores how play-based writing pedagogy influences ...