The British Association for Early Childhood Education has published a paper led by academics at Oxford. They warned against basing policy on a recent paper which claims to find only...
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
The University is seeking to appoint a scholar with a social science background in a relevant discipline and with an international reputation in the field of education. Applications are encouraged...
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
The Department’s Go_girl: code+create project, funded in its first year by a University’s IT Innovation Challenges award, has received funding from Goldman Sachs Gives. The interdisciplinary research project complements existing...
Friday, February 24, 2017
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
Retailer Timpson Ltd supports fostering and education research at Oxford A generous gift of £750,000 from service retailer Timpson Ltd will be used to fund a new research programme at...
Monday, January 16, 2017
Dr Colin Brock, who died on 30 December 2016, was well known to the Oxford Department for his unstinting support of the work in comparative and international education. A geographer...
Thursday, January 5, 2017
Congratulations to Professor John Furlong, Emeritus Professor of Education and Emeritus Fellow of Green Templeton College, who has been recognised in the New Year's honours list and made an officer of the...
Tuesday, January 3, 2017
Mr Charles Chen, founder of Tencent, and Chinese philanthropist, launched the Yidan Prize in education in May 2016. In launching the prize, Mr Chen recognises the transformative power of education for the...
Monday, December 19, 2016
Opportunities to narrow the achievement gap between children in care and their peers are being missed because too many of them do not receive good quality early education places, according...
Monday, December 19, 2016
Dr Michelle Meadows, Research Associate at OUCEA, has been appointed as the Deputy Chief Regulator at the examinations regulator, Ofqual. Dr Meadows has been an Associate at OUCEA for a...
Monday, December 12, 2016
Thursday, December 1, 2016
Researchers in the department have found that a new app for parents can lead to increased parental confidence in setting boundaries with their children and to gains in their preschoolers’...
Wednesday, November 23, 2016