Education Studies News and Events

Dr. Emma Williams hosts ‘Writers and their Education’ Colloquium

Professor Homi Bhabha among one of the distinguished keynotes and speakers at Dr. Emma Williams' colloquium on 'Writers and their Education', held at Oriel College, Oxford 20-21st September 2018.

Dr Emily Henderson joined the SARChI Chair Higher Education and Human Development Research Programme at University of the Free State, South Africa, on a funded institutional visit for a week in September 2018. Dr Henderson was affiliated with the programme during her doctoral studies at UCL Institute of Education, and was recently invited to attend a week of activities to renew the collaboration. During the visit, Dr Henderson acted as discussant for an international colloquium, delivered a workshop on intersectionality for students and postdoctoral fellows in the programme, and attended meetings to further discuss collaboration with Professor Melanie Walker and Dr Mikateko Höppener.

Dr Abdullah Sahin, expert in Islamic Education in the Centre for Education Studies, comments on the car attack outside an Islamic Centre in north London during a time of spiritual significance in both the Islamic and Hebrew calendars.

The 2018 Postgraduate Taught Experience Survey (PTES) have just been published. The results for CES are outstanding! More details will be publicy available soon. Thank you to all those who responded.

“What we urgently need is to encourage ways of restoring mutual trust amongst the communities that make up our shared society by showing a firm commitment to the values of responsibly living with one another. We have a better chance to form a peaceful coexistence if we respect the dignity of difference and recognize the reality of our interdependence”.