Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge


The Faculty of Education is the School of Education located in Cambridge, UK. It is part of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Cambridge. Established in 2001.
Courses at the school include undergraduate programme, masters and doctoral programmes, initial teacher education and training and professional development studies:
Students at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education also join one of the Cambridge Colleges.
The Faculty is situated on Hills Road, near Homerton College.

History

The University of Cambridge Faculty of Education was formed by the merger of three prior departments: the Institute of Education, the Department of Education and the teaching interests of Homerton College. The new Faculty building was designed by Building Design Partnership, and was opened in 2005 by Prince Philip. It was named the Donald McIntyre Building in 2009.

World university education subject rankings

The Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge, according to the QS World University Rankings in Education 2017, was ranked 4th.
In the 2014 UK Research Excellence Framework for Education, the faculty ranked 5th. The next REF report will be in 2021.

Research groups, interests and centres

Faculty of Education has a number of research groups, research interests and research and teaching centres which bring together academics in a variety of fields. Some Faculty researchers and initial teacher educators are partnered with the University of Cambridge Primary School, opened in 2015, which is the first of its kind.
The academic groups are:
The research interest groups include:
The research and teaching centres are:
Previous research centres: