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The next BESA Colloquium will take place at Manchester Metropolitan University on 21st November 2008. The focus of the colloquium will be ‘Research Informed Teaching’ and the guest speaker is Professor Mike Healy from the University of Gloucester. Please click the links below for further details and a booking form:.....read more →

BESA members and those with an interest in Education Studies more generally may like to note that a second edition of the following has been published: Stephen Ward (ed) A Student’s Guide to Education Studies, London: Routledge. It is designed for undergraduate Education Studies students as an introduction to a.....read more →

BESA members should now have received, by e-mail, usernames and passwords to enable them to login to the members area of the website. If you are a BESA member and you have not received login details please contact chris.wakeman@staffs.ac.uk who can arrange for an account to be set up...read more →

The first edition of the ‘new’ BESA journal (Educationalfutures (Volume 1(1)) has now been uploaded to this website and may be accessed by clicking on the ‘journal’ icon from the main menu. Professor John Sharp who recently took over the editorship of the journal has amended the format of the.....read more →

Please note e-mail amendment for BESA journal submissions: Members who delivered papers at the recent BESA conference in Liverpool and wish to have their articles considered for publication in the BESA online journal are reminded that they should send completed works to melanie.bullock@bishopg.ac.uk at the earliest opportunity. The deadline for.....read more →

Please note that contributor information has been added to the BESA website under the Journal section. Delegates or others wishing to submit papers to the BESA journal for consideration and review should refer to the information provided prior to submitting completed work...read more →

The 2008 BESA conference hosted by Liverpool Hope and LJMU was a successful event that was enjoyed by over 90 delegates from 30 universities across the United Kingdom. This represents just about half of all UK institutions offering Education Studies programmes. It felt like a significant step in the Association’s.....read more →

The QAA is reviewing all its subject Benchmarks, including those for Education Studies which were written in 2000. BESA was approached by the QAA to consult on proposed revision to be published in March 2007. At the BESA Executive meeting on October 4 there was a general discussion of views.....read more →