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
• Languages, 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

Friday 3 July 2009

Language, Discourses and Society (LDS) Seminar Series

Negotiating Methodological Rich Points in Applied Linguistics Research: An Ethnographer’s View

Professor Nancy H Hornberger, University of Pennsylvania

“Methodological rich points” are those points that make salient the pressures and tensions between the practice of research and the changing scientific and social world in which researchers work – points where our assumptions about the way research works and the conceptual tools we have for doing research are inadequate to understand the worlds we are researching.  In this paper, I highlight some methodological rich points around issues of inference and generalizability, drawing on ethnographic applied linguistics research, and in particular on research carried out by Indigenous students for their Master’s theses at PROEIB Andes, the Program for Professional Development in Bilingual Intercultural Education for the Andean Region (PROEIB Andes) at the University of San Simón (UMSS) in Bolivia.  At the same time, I seek to reframe these issues in the context of more basic questions of research methodology and ethics.

Multilingual education policy and practice: Ten certainties (grounded in Indigenous experience)

1.30pm - 3.00pm, Room 524, School of Education, Edgbaston