Some moments in history do not announce themselves with disruption or alarm. They slip quietly into everyday life and only later reveal how deeply they have reshaped us. The growing presence ...

A stalemate is how we understand knowledge Education faces a philosophical stalemate. On one side is an ‘objective obsession’ with standardised metrics. For example, English education ...

Clare was a primary school teacher for more than 20 years before starting her PhD in Lancaster University. Her research interests lie in education policy, international student identity ...

Across a collection of three related studies (Mili & Towers, 2024; Chen, 2025; Coburn et al., 2025) which took place in England between 2018 and 2025 and involved 85 participants, we argue ...

Imran Mir is a Campus Head and Programme Lead at Apex College, Leicester. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), a Fellow of the Society for Education and Training ...

Across the higher education (HE) sector, academic institutions understand the importance of inclusion, belonging and diversity (see for example OECD and UNESCO). Yet one dimension which is ...

Inequalities in securing equitable access to, and success in, higher education (HE) remain deeply rooted and pervasive in every country. The World Access to Higher Education Network’s ...

Achieving 15 per cent refugee enrolment in higher education by 2030 remains a significant global challenge. Currently, only 9 per cent of refugees access higher education, far below the 42 ...

In low-resource and displacement contexts, digital learning is widely promoted as a way to expand access to education, including by UNHCR and UNESCO. Yet many learners remain excluded ...

This BERA Blog Special Issue responds to a critical moment in the world’s history marked by a series of interconnected and overlapping global crises. The hallmarks of this are armed conflicts ...