On Tuesday 14th April, PGCE interns and tutors gathered in St Hugh’s bar to participate in a charity pub quiz. The quiz saw an excellent turn out of students with...
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
Two MSc Education students from the Department of Education are part of a team from the University who have won the regional round of the Hult Prize Challenge, the world’s...
Monday, March 23, 2015
Bright but disadvantaged students are far less likely to take the subjects favoured by Russell Group universities than their more advantaged counterparts, according to Department of Education research. It shows...
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
A report in Schools Week looks at what actions the government has taken over the last four years to support the academic attainment of looked after children and what can...
Thursday, March 12, 2015
Publication of Professor John Furlong’s report on the future of Initial Teacher Education and Training in Wales. In March 2014, Professor John Furlong was appointed as Initial Teacher Education and...
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
The Guardian, 10/02/2015, p.37, Warwick Mansell Round-up of education news asks whether ministers’ moves to insist on “traditional” methods of calculation in primary school maths will really raise standards, noting...
Monday, February 16, 2015
Times Higher Education online, 08/02/2015, John Elmes Ian Menter, president of the British Educational Research Association and director of professional programmes at the University of Oxford, has said that a...
Monday, February 16, 2015
New research in the Department of Education shows that children classified as EAL (English as an Additional Language) usually catch up with their peers in their school attainment by the...
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
[caption id="attachment_11796" align="alignleft" width="409"] L-R: Steve Dew, Headteacher Church Cowley St James; Prof Debra McGregor (Oxford Brookes); Jon Gray, Headteacher Cutteslowe; Dianne Carbon, Headteacher St John Fisher; Pat Kennedy, Oxford...
Monday, December 1, 2014
Congratulations to Emeritus Professor John Furlong who has won 1st prize by the Society for Educational Studies for books published in 2013. John's book entitled: "Education - An Anatomy of...
Thursday, November 13, 2014
A paper authored by Susan James and Gerbrand Tholen, with Chris Warhurst from the University of Warwick and Jo Commander from the University of Strathclyde, has been nominated for the...
Monday, October 27, 2014
