Professor Sammons led a team of researchers who conducted research for the Department of Education that found many positive effects of the Sure Start programme for children and families. The...
Tuesday, February 7, 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
Dr Niall Winters and Dr Anne Geniets from the Department of Education (Oxford Network on Health Care Training, Social Justice and Technology and LNTRG) and Dr Sridhar Venkatapuram (King’s College...
Friday, November 18, 2016
In a new video, Hau Ming Tse, a Research Fellow in the Department of Education, as well as students and teachers from Northfleet Technology College talk about how the design...
Monday, November 14, 2016
A one year RCT evaluation of the Inspire maths mastery approach to teaching mathematics for primary age children has been conducted at the Department of Education in Oxford. The research...
Monday, November 7, 2016
