Department of Education Brunel University of London

PGCE Open Evening Train to teach at Brunel! Expert support, diverse placements & real impact in schools. Start your PGCE journey with us today.

If you are interested in beginning a PGCE in 25/26, please do come and see us at our forthcoming Open evening on 8th July. We offer PGCE in Primary, Secondary English, Maths, Physical Education, Sciences (including. Physics with maths). www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pgce-open-...

If you are interested in UG, MA, PGCE , Ed D & Ph D education courses, please do visit us on our forthcoming open day www.brunel.ac.uk/study/open-d...

NEW guest blog: A SCITT Survival Story

An #ECT opens up about the reality of teacher training while navigating grief and neurodivergence.

Read it here: www.those-that-can.com/a-scitt-surv...

#TeacherTraining #NeurodivergentVoices #Education #SCITT #WellbeingInSchools #BlueskyEdu

Promotional poster by the Royal Society of Chemistry featuring a scientist in a lab coat conducting an experiment, with text encouraging viewers to consider a teaching career in chemistry and inviting them to join a scholarship webinar.

Our current teacher training scholars had a fabulous (fully funded) trip to the STEM Learning centre in York! Scholarships from the RSC open up opportunities to help you become a great chemistry teacher. Apply now, or join our next webinar on 10 April: buff.ly/fv0FzRH @stemlearning.bsky.social

Each evaluation will also look at secondary outcomes such as pupil confidence and teacher knowledge, and the effectiveness of programme implementation. All trial schools will receive an incentive and are very important to contribute to educational research and future funding.

We are looking to recruit 580 schools (yikes) over two programmes, our expert evaluators are @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social and @nferclassroom.bsky.social. We will compare pupil attainment in an intervention and control groups for both programmes, hoping for a statistically significant difference.

5/ Teamwork makes the dream work🤝 Peer collaboration significantly boosts preparation for structured tasks, especially essays and presentations

@educationbrunel.bsky.social

4/ Procrastination is real ⏰ Complex assessments like reports and essays often lead students to delay starting - sound familiar to academic writing in general? 🤔

3/ Assessment type matters🧐 Students prepare differently based on the nature of assessments

- Multiple-choice exams 🖊️: Quick prep, minimal effort
- Essays & reports 📖: Deeper thinking, more planning

2/ ✨ Survey data collected from 104 BSc Psychology and BSc Psychology (Sport, Health and Exercise) and 90 BSc Biomedical Sciences students and found….

🧵 1/ 📝 Ever wondered how students REALLY prepare for exams, essays and presentations? A new @brunelpsych paper explores just that 🔍📚

The team was led by Pauldy Otermans, @davetree.bsky.social and @neuronerdsb.bsky.social and undergrad students Chelsea Livingstone and Laiba Nasar

Latest ITT statistics are somewhat positive, with most secondary subjects - especially shortage ones - recruiting better than last year. Primary down a smidge, English down due to bursary cut

But majority still likely to be below target (this is last year's targets: new actuals out next month)

Professor Lani Florian, Bell Chair of Education Emerita at the University of Edinburgh, is renowned for her work in inclusive pedagogy and teacher education. Learn more about her keynote on the EECERA website: buff.ly/EHBD5x4

#EECERA2025 #EECERA #Bratislava

Biochemical Society in-person training Educational Research in the Biosciences 19-20 May 2025, Ibis Birmingham, UK Earlybird deadline: 19 March 2025

Last chance to save £50 on your registration! Delve into qualitative and quantitative research methods, discuss exemplar papers, and network with other educators wanting to develop their educational research profile. Register today: www.eventsforce.net/biochemsoc/2... 🧪

Cartoon Titled "Ableism" - three balls (Rugby ball, football, tennis ball), and ice hockey puck, with eyes and legs stand on a grass field in a line. Speech bubble above puck with text "Don't judge me! I'm faster than most!". QR code in bottom right corner and Uni of Limerick logo in top right corner.

Bring your research to life with Visual Thinkery!

We loved working with the University of Limerick to make assets for their work on social justice pedagogies in teacher education and school communities, using QR codes to link the physical with the digital. 

Find this and more here:
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Short call for cross-sector evidence on best practice in inclusive and ethical research, including from Education and Human Geography - please submit any evidence to @tarryngodfrey.bsky.social

Wild citations and where to find them Citations are crucial to academia. For me, they’re the literal way of saying, “I stand on the shoulders of giants.” They allow us to build on existing knowledge, floor by floor, forming an ever-growin...

A claim gets misquoted, a source misread, and suddenly, a whole research thread is built on something that was never actually there.

Check out the latest blog post by
@samvangele.bsky.social:

www.themodernpeer.com/wild-citatio...

#AcademicSky #SciPub #PeerReview #PhDSky #OpenScience 🧪

Physical education in alternative provision schools: A case of spatial (in)justice? - Maher - 2025 - British Educational Research Journal - Wiley Online Library bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

🚨NEW: Today, the Education Policy Institute(EPI), funded by Unbound Philanthropy and the Sequoia Trust, published a new research investigating the drivers of the disadvantage gap.

You can download and read full report here epi.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Here’s what we did and some of key findings👇

Our latest forecast for postgraduate initial teacher training recruitment for 2025/26 suggests that at least seven of the seventeen subjects will not reach their assumed targets.

Find out more 👉 www.nfer.ac.uk/tlm2025

#TLM2025