"Understanding how to educate people for today's politically, technologically and socially changing world is at the core of the work of the Graduate School of Education.
Central to this is the belief that the ways in which people learn throughout life within educational institutions, the workplace and informal settings is of major significance for the future development of the UK and countries around the world."
Professor Tim Bond, Head of School
We have developed a collaborative and vibrant research culture in partnership with local, national and international communities of academics and practitioners.
We are very proud of our internationally renowned research and are committed to finding new ways of representing and communicating research to a wide audience.
As a postgraduate school our teaching programmes span postgraduate teacher education, masters degrees and doctoral programmes. This teaching draws on the strength of our research, together with the distributed expertise of our academic staff.
As you will see in the pages that follow, the Graduate School is large and diverse; we are one of the largest departments in the University of Bristol and we support diversity and difference across all aspects of our work.
However, throughout we have one common aim to promote effective learning whether that be the learning of our own students through our teaching or the learning of those with whom we come into contact through our multidisciplinary research and development work.
The Graduate School of Education Library provides a rich resource and a supportive environment for students to learn individually or collaboratively. The new library was opened in April 2010 - a major investment in creative learning in Education at the University of Bristol. The Library is one of 12 branch libraries which make up the University of Bristol Library Service, which is part of the broader University of Bristol Information Services. All students are entitled to use any of the 12 branch libraries and most of them are close to the Graduate School of Education.
The Education Library provides access to books, pamphlets, printed and online journals, government publications on education, a video collection and to a collection of recent theses authored by GSoE staff and students.
As well as access to these materials, the Library also provides quiet areas for study, facilities for photocopying, printing, access to networked PCs, scanning, and to DVD, CD-Rom and video playback facilities.
Library induction sessions are offered to all new students. In addition, comprehensive information on what online/print resources are available for students can be found in the Subject Resources and Support pages for Education. The programme handbooks also give further information on library services and resources.
