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We are @ucl's world leaders for research and teaching in education, culture, psychology and social science. We create lasting and evolving change. #WeAreIOE
Joined January 2010
#1 for 12 years in a row ✨. @ucl’s IOE is ranked first for Education in the 2025 QS World University Rankings by Subject. @worlduniranking #QSWUR #WeAreIOE
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Analysing @SB19Official, @TupasRuanni of @UCLAppliedLing writes that P-Pop could bring back appreciation for the Philippine languages too long marginalised as dialects by internal colonisation.
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Gillian Anderson @GillianA has been awarded a @UCL Honorary Fellowship for her support of the @ILC_IOE's #ReadingRecovery programme.
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shoutout to all the doctors of education.
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"The link between reading for pleasure and better vocabularies suggests that if young people are encouraged to discover a love for books, it could alter the course of their lives. ".📚
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okay fine the people have spoken
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It's our birthday - happy sweet 116th to the IOE! 🎂🎉
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Multilingualism research has always been an area close to home for @TupasRuanni. Hear him and @DrKeriWong discuss overcoming language inequalities and how Philippine pop music groups like #SB19 @SB19Official are breaking barriers. #IOEPodcast:
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We were founded on this day in 1902. Happy Birthday to us! 🎂🥳.Professor John Adams delivered the inaugural lecture, titled 'The Training of Teachers', placing particular importance on the need to understand the contents of children's minds and the way they worked. #WeAreIOE.
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"I am committed to supporting greater in-depth research in this vital area and I’m delighted to be meeting all those behind the study at this early stage.". @KensingtonRoyal hears from @CLScohorts @UCLBrainScience leading the ‘Children of the 2020s’ study.
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We are delighted to announce that Professor Li Wei has been appointed the next Director and Dean of the IOE. FULL STORY: .#WeAreIOE
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Focusing on education in feminism and women’s lives, the #Ed4WomensLib conference - organised by UCL's special interest group @UCLwomenslib and @Womans_Place_UK - is coming to IOE on 4 February.
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So we just wanted to let all past and present teacher trainees everywhere know that we see you, we appreciate you, and we are proud of you.
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Now: Gillian Anderson @GillianA has also received a UCL Honorary Fellowship for her support of @ILC_IOE's #ReadingRecovery programme.
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exiting the IOE building be like:.
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Our performance as the "Polytechnic of Greater London" alongside @Florence_Pugh, Alexander Skarsgård and the entire #TheLittleDrummerGirl cast was solid, if we do say so ourselves. Like concrete. #ForYourConsideration
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We remember Professor Geoff Whitty CBE, Director Emeritus of the UCL Institute of Education.
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We outline our strong concerns about the technicist model for ITE that the Review puts forward, the disregard it shows towards the existing infrastructure for ITE, and the limited evidence base for its proposals. Our full response:
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"I am extremely grateful for the trust you have placed in me in taking on this role. I am very much looking forward to working with all of you to build on what we have achieved and take the IOE and pursuit of our social justice mission from success to success.".#WeAreIOE.
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Professor @drbeckyallen has been appointed Director of the new Centre for Education Improvement Science. 📰
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So The #Bodyguard finale took us on a walk from The City to Bloomsbury right outside the IOE - did you recognise us?.We snapped a cheeky behind the scenes snap when they came to film early this year.
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Many congratulations to our Director @BeckyFrancis7 on her new appointment at @EducEndowFoundn. #WeAreIOE.
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We're pleased to announce that @RushtonDr has been appointed Head of the IOE's Department of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment. #WeAreIOE .
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Professors @GoodmanAlissa and @PascoFearon discussed how the 'Children of the 2020s' study aims to improve life chances and showed the Duchess of Cambridge archive material of historic research dating back to the 1940s into early childhood. Learn more:
"I am committed to supporting greater in-depth research in this vital area and I’m delighted to be meeting all those behind the study at this early stage.". @KensingtonRoyal hears from @CLScohorts @UCLBrainScience leading the ‘Children of the 2020s’ study.
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Why does the literature around curriculum theory focus on men, when there are many prominent female theorists?. @drleatongray and David Scott explores women’s involvement in curriculum theory. Read more on the #IOEBlog.
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Study shows for the first time that "poverty as well as poverty-related stressors" causes wear and tear on the brain and the body in children as young as 9 years old.
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🔝 IOE's Director @BeckyFrancis7 has been named one of @tes's Top 10 most influential people in the world of education in 2018.
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On this day in 1948, the NHS was formed. Here's an original flyer, kept in @IOELibrary archives. #HappyBirthdayNHS
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Correlation does not equal causation!. Interpreting results with caution in the #IOEBlog countdown to PISA by @JohnPeterJerrim.
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We're sad to hear of Baroness Mary Warnock's passing, whose pivotal work on children's special educational needs and disabilities resonated with many here. On the Warnock Report's 40th anniversary, she kindly spent time to reflect upon SEND developments since with @RobWebster_.
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A list of over 50 free online learning resources to help children continue their learning at home, organised by primary / secondary / subject. Curated by @RethinkingJames @lcll_ioe #homeschooling #unisupport.
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Teacher training at @UCL has been awarded 'Outstanding' across all four phases - early years, primary, secondary and further education phases. Newly qualified teachers leave "exceptionally well prepared to both enjoy and sustain a career in teaching", says @Ofstednews’s report.
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How it started vs. How it’s going
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IOE is where research transforms lives and society. The impacts of @UCL research on the wider world have been recognised in the Research Excellence Framework 2021. #UCLResearch #REFResults.
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UCL @IOE_London has been selected to lead a new programme of language excellence, funded by @educationgovuk, expanding high quality language education for 1,000s of students across England. #WeAreIOE.
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Zahra Bei, a teacher and Social Justice & Education MA graduate, tells of the damage of zero-tolerance behaviour policies which sparked her racial-justice focused campaign @NExclusions for #NoMoreExclusions from schools. @UCLAlumni.
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@Dominic_Wyse @MichaelRosenYes @Tom_EIF @Shahneila1 @SaraBCam Descriptions of play as 'aimless' horrify @MichaelRosenYes: "through play you discover possibilities of yourself, of the world, and through play you can discover change". #IOEDebates live:
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“To be number one again [for the fifth year running] is an outstanding achievement and I would like to thank and congratulate colleagues, students and stakeholders for their part in our collective success.” .—@BeckyFrancis7. #QSWUR.
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We're proud that @NazlinBhimani and @IOELibrary were able to contribute resources from the @UCLSpecColl to the @BBCOne #Subnormal documentary, and in telling this important story, help bring these issues to light.
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Sending out good vibes and solidarity to @UCLout @UCLLGBT @UCLEqualities and everyone celebrating this weekend's #PrideinLondon and #UKBlackPride! 🏳️🌈.#Pride
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"Our research suggests that the government would be better off directing their money towards areas of existing need, rather than expanding grammar schools.".📰 More:
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We're pleased to announce Dr Nicola Walshe @GeoWalshe will join us this summer as Head of our Department of Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment. #WeAreIOE.
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Congratulations to Vivian Hill (@VivianEdPsych) of @UCL_IOE_PHD, who has received the Distinguished Contribution Award from @DECPOfficial for the wide-ranging impact of her research and practice. #WeAreIOE.
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Play is strongly connected to children’s wellbeing. Watch out for some exciting outputs from this research led by @JohnPP, including a virtual @MuseumChildhood exhibition, toolkit with @GreatOrmondSt play team, sound archive @britishlibrary!.
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Many of the standard ideas about language, education, and bilingualism are rooted in colonialism, says @professorliwei1 in article rejecting abyssal thinking.
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This. Is. Amazing. Congratulations to #IOE alumna @Andriazaf, this year’s winner of the Global #TeacherPrize. #GESF @UCLAlumni.
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.@Lucy__Green announced as one of 7 @ucl academics made a Fellow of the @BritishAcademy_ this year, for her work in music education which includes @musicalfutures.
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Philippine languages – there are as many as 182 – are often wrongly downgraded as dialects due to historically colonial education which favoured English, says @TupasRuanni. He comments on how P-pop including Alamat and SB19 are helping change this.
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Some positive news: we congratulate Professor Margaret O'Brien @IOE_TCRU, who has been made a Fellow of the @AcadSocSciences for her outstanding contribution to social science research and its application to policy and society. #SocSciMatters .
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Happy International Day of Education! #IDE2022.IOE Director @professorliwei1 has a message about education's transformative power. #WeAreIOE #EducationDay
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#HappyBirthdayIOE 🎈🎉 On this day in 1902 the IOE opened as the London Day Training College - it's grown a lot!.@IOE_Press @IOE_archives @ucl
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What if the whole of Year 7 was characterised as primary-to-secondary transition phase?. "Schools that manage to bridge the gap well set up their students for a lifetime’s successful learning" - @drleatongray, Moving Up project.
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Michael Reiss has been appointed as the next President of @theASE. He said the Association "has never been more needed, given the challenges that teachers, technicians and other science educators face and given the importance of science in today’s world.".
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Congratulations to Louise Archer, who has been made a Fellow of the @BritishAcademy_ and to @ProfessorLiWei1 who has been appointed to the Council! #WeAreIOE.
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Geoff Whitty – an appreciation
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A new framework that makes research more accessible to practitioners aims to aid the uptake of evidence in education settings and facilitate researcher-educator collaboration. Led by @sineadjhar @ILC_IOE.
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We're so pleased to have such a warm and fantastic turnout for Director Emeritus Geoff Whitty this evening, celebrating his 50 years with the IOE. #IOELondon
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