We have been educating the teaching and education workforce for almost 140 years. Our vision of ‘working creatively with others to enhance life chances’ is at the heart of who we are as a working family. We focus relentlessly on harnessing the power of education to transform lives, every day, in everything we do with our students and strategic partners.
The faculty is one of the largest Initial Teacher Education providers in the country and in March 2024, we became the first higher education institution in England to be rated ‘outstanding’ by Ofsted in all three teacher education phases.
Alongside this we have an expanding portfolio of well-respected education provision where we work with diverse professionals to address local, national, and global challenges in education and related fields.
We believe that everyone has the right to access education regardless of their learning journey and life experiences. Our portfolio provides an inclusive lifelong learning journey in education, from foundation degrees to doctoral study, recognising the experiences our students bring as they study with us.
We are a diverse, publicly engaged, collaborative team with an international reputation for developing and implementing impactful research, knowledge exchange, and continuing professional development. This multi-award-winning work addresses our five core Faculty themes:
Teacher Education & Professional Learning
New and existing practice in Initial Teacher Education (e.g, mentoring, ITAPs, subject specialisms)
Professional development and CPD
Learning in, and with, partnership(s)
Teachers as researchers
Developing educational leaders
Transitioning to HE from other educational settings
Teacher recruitment, retention, and wellbeing
Transformative Education
Teaching and learning across school subjects
School priorities including attendance, attainment, exclusions
Raising aspiration, educational opportunity, and transformative education
Curricula and pedagogical development, enrichment, and enhancement
Teaching, learning, and support in higher education
Innovative and creative pedagogy
Artificial intelligence
Education for sustainability
Access to education
Early Years, Families, and Communities
Early reading
Outdoor learning
Parenting and upbringing
Educational trajectories and transitions
School-family-community links
Community partnerships
Community education and community schooling
Play in the early years
Philosophy, Values, Ethics, & World Views
Philosophy of education
Aims of higher education
The place of faith schools
British values
Worldviews
Moral education
Inequalities, Health and Wellbeing
Mental health and wellbeing
SEND and inclusion
Poverty, social inequality, and marginalisation
Differential educational attainment
Neurodiversity
Diversity and intersectional identities in education