School of Education

The Scottish Government has set up a Coronavirus (COVID 19) Advisory Sub-Group on Education and Children’s Issues to provide advice to support and inform the development of operational guidance for providers of learning, childcare and children’s services.

This is an update of some of the work that is being undertaken in the School of Education, following a previous summary. For the most part, readers will find links to more detail of the work, and for convenience it is divided into the broad categories of Knowledge Exchange and External Engagement, and Public Discourse.

The UNESCO Chair team have held daily sessions with their many partners around the world and ensured a global perspective on the progress of the virus and different political and migrant responses to this.

In many countries schools remain closed and the dinner table now serves as the school desk. This crisis has given us all new respect for the work that teachers do, but it has also given us an extraordinary moment to break the strictures of classroom learning.

The School of Education in collaboration with UNESCO RILA and CR&DALL is organising the next conference of the European Society for Research on the Education of Adults (ESREA) Migration, Transnationalism and Racisms Network.

Education Leadership and Policy Seminar Series Events Cancelled