Dr Daniel Caro, OUCEA Research Fellow, has been awarded OECD’s Thomas J. Alexander Fellowship. The OECD announcement is available here. His fellowship project bridges the fields of educational effectiveness research and international assessment...
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
On 4th March 2014, following the announcement on the 7th October 2013 of the Review of Initial Teacher Training (ITT) in Wales, Professor John Furlong was appointed Wales’ expert Initial...
Thursday, March 6, 2014
OUCEA and Pearson, working in partnership, will form the National Centre for the Progress in International Reading Study (PIRLS) 2016 for England. PIRLS, coordinated by the International Association for the...
Monday, February 3, 2014
The government plans to increase free nursery eligibility to the poorest 40% of two-year-olds New research by Oxford University for the Sutton Trust concludes that clear developmental benefits for the...
Thursday, January 23, 2014
Congratulations to OUCEA doctoral student Jeanne Ryan, who won the award for best poster at the Association for Educational Assessment-Europe Annual Conference in Paris in November 2013. Jeanne’s research looks at the impact of international...
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Over 100 new Oxford Graduate Scholarships, supported by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) and other donors, will be awarded to UK and EU postgraduate students who start their course...
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Wired.co.uk, 05/12/2013, Tom Cheshire Research suggests that children born into the internet age are developing strategies to cope with the ‘realities of distraction’. Dr Rebecca Eynon of Oxford University’s Department...
Monday, December 9, 2013
Oxford Mail, 03/12/2013, p.12, Judy Sebba Judy Sebba, director of Oxford University’s Rees Centre for Research in Fostering and Education, writes this week’s University Life column. Professor Sebba discusses the...
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Oxford Mail, p.4, 27/11/2013, Sophie Scott School pupils are to benefit from a new Oxford University initiative to boost learning across the city. The Education Deanery was launched yesterday at...
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
The Guardian, p.15, 26/11/2013, Richard Adams Oxford University is to launch a ground-breaking new initiative aimed at improving the city’s state schools. The Oxford Education Deanery, which launches today, is...
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Radio: Today, BBC Radio 4; 05/11/2013, 6:52 Naomi Eisenstadt of Oxford University participated in a discussion prompted by recent suggestions by the chair of Ofsted that children should start school...
Friday, November 8, 2013
Daily Telegraph, 07/11/2013, p.19, Graeme Paton Rising numbers of teachers are barring lower attaining pupils from taking GCSEs in history amid fears they will damage the school’s league table ranking,...
Friday, November 8, 2013