Congratulations to Natalie Lundsteen whose DPhil has just been awarded the AERA Work Place Learning SIG Dissertation prize. Natalie was a SKOPE and OSAT member, supervised by Anne Edwards and...
Monday, April 16, 2012
The Guardian, p. 8, Jeevan Vasagar, 29/03/12 Spending more than two hours a night doing homework is linked to better results in English, maths and science, according to a study...
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Professor Karl Heinz Gruber, currently research fellow at the department and emeritus professor of comparative education at the University of Vienna, Austria, has been awarded the Grand Insignia of Honour...
Friday, March 23, 2012
BBC News Online, Judith Burns, 20/03/2012 Research carried out by Oxford University suggests that Ofsted's grading system is too broad to provide parents with a detailed measure of the quality...
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
BBC News online (Education), Sean Coughlan, 14/03/12 Article on boosting class sizes in primary schools notes that John Howson, a research fellow at Oxford University’s Department of Education, has described...
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
We are pleased to announce that the American Educational Research Association (AERA) has selected Professor Herb Marsh as one of 36 scholars in 2012 to be AERA Fellows in recognition...
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Losing momentum? Current challenges in learning and technology Thursday 14th June 2012 Department of Education, University of Oxford www.losingmomentum.org The Learning and New Technologies Research Group at the University of...
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
The closing date for submissions for the 8th BAAL Language Learning and Teaching Special Interest Group Conference entitled BEYOND THE BEGINNER: SUSTAINING SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING is Friday 9th March. For...
Friday, February 24, 2012
The Times Educational Supplement, p. 12, Helen Ward, 10/02/12 Article citing departmental research. Read now. Article on the latest findings from the ongoing Effective Pre-School, Primary and Secondary Education...
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Financial Times -Business Education-, 30/01/2012, p.8, Della Bradshaw Article citing departmental courses. An article in the Financial Times on developments in the teaching of MBA courses notes that the Saïd...
Monday, January 30, 2012
In an appearance before the Education Select Committee, Professor Jo-Anne Baird, Director of the Oxford University Centre for Educational Assessment, dismissed the idea of creating a single examining body as...
Monday, January 30, 2012
Tom Alexander, formerly Director for Education, Employment, Labour, and Social Affairs at the OECD and a senior research fellow of the Department since his retirement in 2000, died on Sunday...
Friday, January 27, 2012