Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge is the

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located in

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and was established in 2001. It is part of the school of humanities and social sciences at the

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. 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

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Library, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge

History

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

. The new faculty building was designed by Building Design Partnership, and was opened in 2005 by

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. It was named the Donald McIntyre Building in 2009.

World university education subject rankings

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

Research groups, interests and centres

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. 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 Previous research centres: * Cambridge Primary Review Trust * Centre for Commonwealth Education (see also

OER4Schools The OER4Schools programme is a teacher professional development programme utilizing information and communication technologies (ICT), focussing on sub-Saharan Africa. It was initiated at the Centre for Commonwealth Education, based at the Faculty ...

programme)

Notable academics

Maria Nikolajeva Maria Nikolajeva (born 16 May 1952) is a Swedish literary critic and academic, specialising in children's literature. Since 2008, she has been Professor of Education at the University of Cambridge and a Professorial Fellow of Homerton College, Cambr ...

, director, centre for children's literature *

Diane Reay Diane Reay is a sociologist and academic, who is Professor of Education at the University of Cambridge. She is noted for her study about educational inequalities among students in state schools in the United Kingdom. She has maintained that there ...

Rex Walford Rex Ashley Walford, (14 February 1934 – 2 January 2011) was a British scholar, educator, and former journalist, who in later life specialised in teaching others to teach geography. Education Walford was a strong supporter of lifelong learning ...

, head of the then department of education in the 1990s

References

External links

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