Budget planning in schools is like navigating a ship through unpredictable seas, awash with rising costs, fluctuating pupil numbers and financial vulnerability. All schools must balance ...

Will Jordan is a certified accountant, former chair of finance at the Cornerstone Academy Trust and co-founder of IMP Software, who supply financial budgeting systems to nearly 500 ...

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Like many headteachers in the state sector, I was excited in 2024 when the newly elected Labour government called for a curriculum and assessment review. Many of us in the primary phase ...

If teachers are to continue developing their classroom practice, we need them to take risks. Very little research has considered teachers’ attitudes to voluntary risk-taking; which ...

The election of a Labour government in the UK in July 2024 heralded optimism that some serious problems with England’s national curriculum and assessment system, evident since 2014, ...

Dr Karen Foster is a science teacher and leads on initial teacher training at Pittville School in Cheltenham. She has previously held senior leadership roles in secondary education and at ...

This BERA Blog special issue examines possible futures for tertiary education in England and the challenges that are faced by policymakers, institutional leaders, educators and researchers in ...

Duaa Jamal Karim is a PhD researcher at the University of Cambridge, specialising in education policy, legal linguistics and governance, working interdisciplinary at the borders of Sociology, ...

The latest government Skills England report highlights the fragmentation of post-compulsory education as a significant challenge. Deep divisions persist between higher education, further education and ...

Much has been said about the need for more coherence and collaboration across the various parts currently making up the tertiary sector in England – not least by the Labour government itself (and ...