Imagine undergoing a high stakes education assessment at the age of 11, and that result dictating many of the options available to you for the rest of your life. The detrimental impact of ...

The Independent Review of Education in Northern Ireland asserts that ‘education is the greatest investment any society makes in its own future’, bringing ‘societal benefits’ ...

Northern Ireland education has just had an Independent Review . It remarked that: ‘Northern Ireland could significantly benefit if unnecessary fragmentation or duplication, where they ...

Denominational Christianity is woven into the fabric of education in Northern Ireland (NI). Catholic, Presbyterian, Anglican and Methodist Churches, all Christian, are embedded in the ...

Dr Matthew Milliken was a research assistant in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences at Ulster University, and is now an independent researcher. He is a former youth worker with ...

Despite the surge of the neurodiversity movement and tremendous efforts by schools, parents and SEND specialists, negative connotations around autism still pervade. One need only to look ...

Dr Ania Atkinson is a Senior Lecturer in Education Studies and SEND at Nottingham Trent University. She leads the SEND Special Interest Group (SIG) at NTU. The SEND SIG is a place to ...

I was inspired to write this blog post after contributing to a social media soundbite for Black History Month, specifically addressing the challenges Black researchers face. The ...

BERA is delighted to share the highlights video from the 2024 BERA Annual Conference & WERA Focal Meeting, held from September 8th-12th, 2024 in Manchester. This landmark event brought ...

International students within British higher education are not always seen in a positive light. They are sometimes thought of in monetary terms, cynically regarded as ‘cash cows’ (Lomer, ...

Fujia Yang is a PhD candidate of the Department of Teacher Education, University of Birmingham, UK, supervised by Professor Beng Huat See and Professor Stephen Gorard. Her research focuses ...