Meg Maguire is Professor of Sociology of Education at King’s College London. Meg's research is in the sociology of education, urban education and policy. She has a long-standing interest in ...

This series celebrates one decade of the BERA Blog, as an important and growing space to explore current and varied issues and questions of concern to the education community. To mark ...

Education policy in the UK is characterised by change, churn and disruption as successive governments somewhat inevitably recognise ‘problems’ in education to be ‘fixed’ with ...

Sentience–sapience relations are of particular interest because they contribute to determinations of what a human being is, how human beings are different from other animals, meanings that ...

Two of BERA’s journals, British Educational Research Journal and Curriculum Journal , have announced their annual Editors’ Choice Awards, recognising papers published in their 2024 ...

The relationship between poetry and philosophy is ineluctable (unavoidable and inescapable) and widely understood. Although in this blog post we won’t go as far as to claim, like Coleridge, ...

The new Labour government has made a commitment to support the early years sector as well as launching a curriculum review. This presents us with an opportunity to revisit Labour’s ...

In today’s rapidly evolving world, the need for a more inclusive and equitable curriculum is more urgent than ever. Our current system – dominated by a rigid focus on academic assessments ...

Lee Elliot Major is Britain’s first Professor of Social Mobility, based at the University of Exeter. He was previously chief executive of the Sutton Trust. His work is dedicated to improving ...

The notion of the civic university has evolved significantly in recent years in the UK, with growing recognition of universities as key drivers of regional transformation. At the heart of ...

Ruth Gilbert is a clinical epidemiologist trained in paediatrics. Much of her research uses de-identified, administrative data to address clinical and policy questions related to the health ...