The ECR journey: From inspiration to impact
The first ever BERA Early Career Researcher (ECR) Conference in May 2023, The ECR Journey: From inspiration to impact, celebrated the journey of ‘becoming’ an educational researcher. It was an...
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Exploring the free school meals measure in the English National Pupil Database
Pupils’ recorded eligibility for free school meals (FSM) within the English National Pupil Database (NPD) has long been utilised across the country’s research and policy communities. It is...
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Parental activism in education
In her final annual report as Chief Inspector of Ofsted, England’s schools and children’s services inspectorate, Amanda Spielman, opines that the Covid-19 pandemic has ‘fractured’ the...
Continue reading blog postGuest editing opportunity for Research Intelligence, issue 161
Teacher education
Caution: Mind the English SEND postcode funding gap
Funding schools by formula has been applied across a number of countries for at least the past 50 years. A National Funding Formula (NFF) in England was introduced in 2018 and aims to provide a...
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Systematic reviews: Do we need more rigor and transparency?
Have you ever wondered about the actual reliability of systematic reviews of educational interventions? This issue is significant, as systematic reviews are critical in informing educational...
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How do we develop an education fan base?
We have been discussing the forthcoming 2024 UK general election and how we might enable debate about public education in England. We have found James O’Brien’s arguments about...
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Understanding and improving the wellbeing of postgraduate taught students: A longitudinal study
Research from around the globe has highlighted that university student wellbeing is lower than that of the general adult population (see for example Adlaf et al., 2001; Larcombe et al., 2014), and...
Continue reading blog postParent engagement in school curriculum: Whose voices get heard?
Image by Freepik School curriculum has always been a contested space where parents, teachers and policymakers expressed their often-divergent views on purposes of education. Such debates...
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Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research, fifth edition (2024)
The fifth edition of BERA’s Ethical Guidelines for Educational Research has been revised and updated to enable researchers to conduct their work to the highest ethical standards in any and all...
Identifying tensions between school readiness policy and teacher beliefs, knowledge and practice in early childhood education
This blog post is based on my recent article published in the British Educational Research Journal (Kay, 2023). Using data from semi-structured interviews with two teachers, the paper addresses...
Continue reading blog postThe rise of private international schools and its impact on social justice in China
As of 2023, an estimated 6.7 million students were enrolled in about 13,600 international schools globally. Over the past decade, the global sector of international schools grew by a third, and...
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