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)
Donald Mcintyre Building, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge
Students at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge also join one of the Cambridge Colleges.
Library in spring, 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 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
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.
Library in winter, Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge
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.[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)
