Department of Education

We have been educating educators for more than a century. Our graduates transform lives through their reflective, inclusive and research-engaged practice.

Our supportive community is learner-centred, and you will have career-enhancing opportunities to collaborate with other students, educational settings, sector partners and health and social care professionals.

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About us

Our history

Our partnerships

Our courses

We have a range of educational courses, from initial teacher training to specialist teaching areas and postgraduate research.

Why choose Kingston's Department of Education

Reputation

We have a rich history of educating educators; providing a strong foundation for learning and teaching.

Putting you first

We recognise your needs and aspirations, personalise your learning experience and putting you at the heart of everything we do.

Expert educationalists

Our staff are research-engaged educationalists, making knowledge accessible for you to incorporate in your professional practice. 

Inter-professional collaboration

Our faculty brings valuable experience and insight from other professionals that work with children and young people. 

Kingston Hill

The Kingston Hill campus features an outdoor learning environment where trainee teachers lead curriculum-linked natural sciences activities with children. It includes a specially built 'cubby house', outdoor pond, beehive and nature trail. It offers early years students the opportunity to simulate teaching and learning with natural materials.

There are a number of teaching rooms set up to replicate actual classrooms. There are also subject-based classrooms – such as an art room, science lab. Each is equipped with all the relevant facilities you will need to practise your lessons before taking them into school.

Our library (the Nightingale Centre) has an excellent range of teaching resources to help you plan and teach your lessons, such as a range of children's topic books, music and nursery rhymes, as well as artefacts and kits that can be used to illustrate historical periods, different religions, science, maths and music.

Academic staff in the Department of Education

Education Research

The Department of Education aims to improve the lives of learners in all settings and to enhance the wellbeing of communities in education-related fields. Our collaborative work with teachers, education professionals and partner institutions underpins our research activity.

Our academic staff have developed research expertise within various contexts and settings across the education sector, from nursery to higher education; work-based and intercultural learning to the formation of inclusive and international curricula.

Current areas of interest include professionalism and inter-professionalism in Early Years' provision, citizenship education, technologies-enhanced learning and digital literacies, mathematics education and curriculum policy in the primary and secondary years.