Welcome from Professor Volker Wedekind
Head of School of Education
Welcome to the School of Education's website, where you can read about our comprehensive programme of world-leading research, outstanding initial teacher education, and innovative taught courses. Whatever the purpose of your visit, I hope that these pages are helpful.
The School of Education has a long history of both teacher education and adult education that stretches back over 100 years and we enjoy strong partnerships with many schools and other organisations locally, nationally and internationally.
Our research
In the latest Research Excellence Framework, the vast majority of our outputs were assessed as internationally excellent, with over half given the highest possible score of 4*. Much of the school's research portfolio is aimed at having a real impact upon learners, organisations and educational systems.
We have a longstanding relationship with UNESCO, several large-scale European projects, and strong connections to US funders, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
As part of our commitment to research excellence, the school has a thriving doctoral research community of students from around the world.
Our teaching
We have a broad programme of postgraduate taught courses, largely focused on professional learning. One distinctive strand of our postgraduate programme is professional counselling education which emphasises humanistic and person-centred approaches.
We train new primary and secondary teachers each year in the UK on Ofsted-rated ‘outstanding’ PGCE courses and we also run an innovative PGCEi course in eight countries, providing professional development for international educators.
The school is also home to the Centre for English Language Education (CELE), which offers innovative pre-sessional academic English courses to enable applicants to reach the required level of academic English to start their degree course at the university. CELE also offers academic language and communication skills courses and one-to-one consultations to students whilst studying their degree to help them achieve their academic potential.