Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge is the School of Education at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge , United Kingdom. It was established in 2001. It is part of the school of humanities and social sciences at the University of Cambridge . ^[1]

Courses at the school include undergraduate, masters and doctoral programmes, initial teacher education and training, and professional development studies:

• MPhil (full-time)
• Master of Education (part-time)
• PhD (full and part-time)
• EdD (part-time)
• Undergraduate Education BA
• Postgraduate Professional Development, including an accredited Counselling Programme
• Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE)

Students at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge also join one of the Cambridge Colleges .

The faculty is situated on Hills road, near Homerton College .

History [ edit ]

Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge was formed by the merger of three prior departments: the Institute of Education, the Department of Education (initially on Trumpington street) and the teaching interests of Homerton College . The new faculty building was designed by Building Design Partnership, and was opened in 2005 by Prince Philip . It was named the Donald McIntyre Building in 2009.

World university education subject rankings [ edit ]

Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge was ranked 4th in the world according to the QS World University Rankings in Education 2017. ^[2] However, in the 2014 UK Research Excellence Framework for Education, the faculty ranked 5th. ^[3] The next REF report will be in 2021.

Research groups, interests and centres [ edit ]

Faculty of Education has a number of research groups, research interests and research teaching centres which bring together academics in a variety of fields. Some faculty researchers and initial teacher educators are partnered with the University of Cambridge Primary School, opened in 2015, which is the first of its kind. ^{[ citation needed ]}

The academic groups are:

• Education, Equality & Development
• Educational Leadership, Policy, Evaluation and Change
• Pedagogy, Language and Culture in Education
• Psychology & Education
• Science, Technology & Mathematics Education

The research interest groups include:

• Creativities and Arts
• Education and International Development
• Education Policy and Evaluation
• History, Philosophy and Sociology of Education
• Psychology and Education
• Teacher and Professional Education
• Teaching and Pedagogy

The research and teaching centres are:

• Education Reform and Innovation
• Centre for Children's Literature
• Leadership for Learning: the Cambridge Network
• PEDAL: Centre for Research on Play in Education, Development and Learning
• REAL: Research for Equitable Access and Learning ^[4]

Previous research centres:

• Cambridge Primary Review Trust
• Centre for Commonwealth Education ^[5] (see also OER4Schools programme)

Notable academics [ edit ]

• Maria Nikolajeva , director, centre for children's literature
• Jason Arday
• Diane Reay
• Rex Walford , head of the then department of education in the 1990s

References [ edit ]

External links [ edit ]

• Official website