Education Studies News and Events

The Centre for Education Studies Graduation took place on Friday 18th July where finalist students on our UG and PG degree programmes celebrated the happy occasion in the glorious sunshine.

Congratulations to all students and best wishes for the future!

The Culham St Gabriels Trust is offering bursaries for teachers entering the Warwick distance learning MA in Religions and Education in 2014-15. The 3forRE scheme offers bursaries (of £1000 pa) for 1-2 years, on condition that the school makes a small contribution.

The 5 original bursaries have already been taken up but the Trust is now offering more bursaries on a first come, first served basis. Ideally these will be for an October 2014 start but if necessary a January 2015 start will be considered.

If you would like to know more, please contact Judith Everington at j.everington@warwick.ac.uk.

A grant of £52,600 was awarded to the Centre for Education Studies to collaborate with local academics, school principals and government officials to support education in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. Find out more

The first of two workshops involving staff from the Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit (WRERU) in the Centre for Education Studies (CES) at Warwick (Prof. Leslie Francis, Prof. Robert Jackson, Dr Elisabeth Arweck) and staff from Monash University (Dr Mary Lou Rasmussen, Prof. Gary Bouma, Prof. Greg Barton) took place from 7–9 June 2014.

The purpose of the workshop was to create a forum for the exchange of knowledge and research regarding diverse worldviews, education and social inclusion in the context of education about religions and beliefs in schools, to identify research and educational priorities, and to develop a collaboration plan for the follow-up workshop. The workshops are financially supported by the Warwick–Monash Alliance Seed fund which is designed to facilitate the development of joint research and educational collaboration between Monash University and the University of Warwick.

Congratulations to Angela Quartermaine, a doctoral researcher in Warwick Religious Education Research Unit (WRERU) who won two awards in the Research Postgraduate Poster Showcase, organised by the Research Student Skills Programme.

She received the first award for 'the best presentation and poster in Social Sciences' and the second award for 'the best overall poster'.