We offer courses that range from undergraduate BA programmes to doctoral level study. We have postgraduate Initial Teacher Education at both primary and secondary level. We also offer post-experience courses and higher degrees for those serving teachers and other educational professionals who wish to study at a higher level and continue their professional development.

At any one year we have between 80-100 international students studying in the School coming from most parts of the world.

We have a strong international profile in our teaching, research and consultancy. The CIER page gives details of our international expertise and research projects, the staff involved and our international partners. It also details scholarships for international students.

The School's research interests are at the heart of its mission and the School consistently scores highly in the Research Assessment Exercise which is held every 5 to 6 years. At the present we have a number of research groups at the School. These are:

• Disability, Inclusion and Special Needs
• Governance, Management and Leadership
• Language, Discourse and Society
• Knowledge, Culture and Diversity
• Professional Learning and Pedagogy

All of this will make studying at the School of Education at the University of Birmingham an exciting and rewarding experience.

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Forthcoming events - see the events page for further details

The annual Raymond Priestley Lecture will be on 4 November 2009. This years speaker is Frank Coffield, Professor of Education at the Institute of Education, University of London. His lecture is entitled Exam Factories or Learning Communities: What’s Education For? The lecture is open to all, but number will be limited.

The 2009-2010 research seminar series starts on 25th November 2009 with guest speaker Richard Pring, from the University of Oxford. All are welcome. His lecture will be on The Nuffied Review of 14-19 Education and Training: the problems faced and solutions proposed.