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  • The School of Education

    An exciting and stimulating place to study having a robust, active and expanding research portfolio with international expertise in the areas of adult & lifelong learning, science education, teacher education, religon & education, social justice, place and lifelong education among others.

  • Development of the School of Education app for new teacher graduates

    Girl using smartphone

    The School of Education has launched its first app, “Proficio”, which provides support for our new teacher graduates.

  • `Does RE Work?' - project features large in Westminster debate

    On the 2nd February Professor Jim Conroy took part in a major debate in Whitehall on Religion and Education. The other speakers were Professors Richard Dawkins and Robert Jackson (Warwick) and the Bishop of Oxford, Rt Rev. John Pritchard.


World class research

The School of Education is ranked 2nd in Scotland and in the top 15 in the UK for the volume of world-leading and internationally excellent research in education. Our research and knowledge transfer strands are

The following departments combined their international expertise in research education and teaching to form the School of Education in August 2010

  • Adult and Continuing Education
  • Curriculum Studies
  • Educational Studies
  • Religious Education