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Future thinking ESPRC funds collaborative international centre

2 May 2013

New collaborative and multidisciplinary infrastructure centre funded by ESPRC.

GSoE Centenary website is live

16 April 2013

The GSoE Centenary website is now live - visit it to find out more about the different ways we are celebrating 100 years of teacher education.

GSoE spearheads the development of a new state-of-the-art second language speech laboratory

15 April 2013

The April 2013 visit of IAS Benjamin Meaker Visiting Professor Ron Thomson (Brock University, Canada) marks the initial phase of the development of a sound-attenuated second language speech lab at the University of Bristol.

GSoE awarded four new Widening Participation Grants

15 March 2013

In the recent round of Widening Participation Research Funding the University of Bristol awarded four teams from the GSoE with up to £100k each to support major pieces of new research.

Paul Howard Jones on Radio 4

13 March 2013

Keen Radio 4 listeners may have heard Paul Howard Jones, co-coordinator of the Centre for Mind and Brain in Educational and Social Contexts (M-BESC), on Monday's edition of the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 (Monday 11 March, 2013). He was involved in a discussion on how video games can affect children's brains

Dr Angeline Mbogo Barrett awarded grant for supporting children's learning in Tanzania

22 February 2013

Working with two key African universities, the Tanzanian Institute of Education and Morogoro Teachers College, Dr Mbogo Barrett has been awarded funding to write a selection of new textbooks for second language learners in the first year of secondary school.

Professor Sibel Erduran announced TUBITAK Fellow

14 January 2013

Professor Sibel Erduran has been awarded a 2-year fellowship co-funded by TUBITAK (the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) and the European Union Marie Curie Scheme.

Martin Hughes Memorial Prize launched

28 November 2012

The call is now open for an annual £750 prize for teachers commemorating the work of Martin Hughes who was a developmental psychologist and Professor of Education at the University of Bristol.

Graduate School hosts prestigious Language Testing conference

19 November 2012

At the Graduate School of Education from 16-18 November, Dr Guoxing Yu, Senior Lecturer, chaired the 32nd annual Language Testing Forum (LTF), the premier language testing conference in the UK.

A road to education system reform

9 November 2012

How can Chinese authorities improve the education system?