News and Events at Education

'The Student as Producer' - Seminar

Date: 8th February 2012
Time: 1.00pm – 2.00pm
Speaker: Professor Mike Neary, Director of the Centre for Educational Research and Development, University of Lincoln
Venue: Room A1.01, Alun Building, Bangor University

Exploring Childhood through Art

Childhood Studies students enjoyed a visit to the Walker Art Gallery and Sudley House in Liverpool recently. As part of their BA Childhood Studies course students were encouraged to explore a selection of paintings from different historical eras which depict childhood in different ways. More ...

Research seminars for staff

Friday, 3rd February, 2012

Dr Anne-Marie Smith will introduce her research on – “Telling the stories of research: reflections on fieldwork in Mexico”.
It will be held in room Dinas 104, School of Education, Normal Site at 1.30pm. There is a warm welcome to everyone.

NCSE 2011 Research Conference

Dr Jean Ware advises on special education policy in Dublin. More ...

Dr Anwei Feng’s visit to Yunnan, China 17 December - January 2012

Dr Anwei Feng has recently visited Yunnan, China where he delivered lectures and seminars on Intercultural Education, Bilingualism and Bilingual Education to hundreds of students and staff in five Universities and Colleges. Dr Feng already holds guest Professorships in Yunnan Normal University and Qujing Normal University and on this recent visit was also awarded a guest professorship in Southwest Forestry University. In addition to raising the profile of Bangor University, Anwei reports that a number of students and young academics expressed interest in pursuing their studies at Bangor. Read more ...

'Education Transactions' Launch: Citizenship Education in Wales

12.30 pm, 15 November 2011, Senedd, Cardiff. More ...

Education graduate scoops Pride of Britain award

Congratulations to Bangor University graduate Llew Davies, who has just scooped a Pride of Britain Award. The 29 year old, who graduated with a degree in Primary Education in 2004, is Deputy Headteacher at Ysgol Cae Top in Bangor, and last year won the UK Teacher of the Year Award. Read more ...

Successful Bid for National Welsh College (Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol) Grant (2012-2015)

Dr. Enlli Thomas (Education) and Dr. Peredur Davies (Linguistics) have been awarded a prestigious grant by the Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol (National Welsh College). The grant will enable our colleagues to write and publish an academic Welsh-medium textbook about bilingualism from a sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic viewpoint. The grant runs from 2012 to 2015; the textbook is scheduled to be published in 2015.

Congratulations to both!

Bangor’s graduates - more satisfied than the average student

Students completing degrees at the University’s Schools of Education, Psychology, and Sport, Health & Exercise Sciences at the University were particularly satisfied with their experience, putting the Schools among the top in the UK in those subjects according to the student experience.Education was placed in top place in the UK according to student satisfaction, Psychology in 5th place and Sport Sciences in 10th place. Read the full story ...

Students shine in Santander Business Ideas Competition

The overall undergraduate winner, beating off stiff competition from four other entries was Shem ap Geraint, a BSc Product Design student. Shem’s design, the Rocket Life Ring is an updated version of the traditional life ring which can be thrown more accurately and much further. (01.06.2010) More ...

Fully Funded PhD Research Studentship.

The College of Education and Lifelong Learning is offering a Postgraduate Studentship in child language acquisition and bilingualism under the supervision of Dr Enlli Thomas and Dr Gwyn Lewis, in collaboration with S4C. Read more...

External Examiners Required

Publication Date: 23/03/2011

Celebrating Religious Education: Welsh National Centre for Religious Education, Bangor

In March 2011 Wales and England will have an opportunity to celebrate Religious Education. As part of these celebrations, you are warmly invited to the Welsh National Centre for Religious Education now located within the library on the Normal Site, Bangor University on Wednesday, 30 March at 5pm. There will be a reception to launch our new location, followed by a public lecture where Mrs Carys Pritchard, Religious Education Adviser for ESIS will be our guest speaker.

RSVP by 25 March please by contacting:
ems023@bangor.ac.uk
01248 383594

First Minister launches new North and Mid Wales Centre of Teacher Education

Publication Date: 15/01/2011

First Minister Carwyn Jones launches the North and Mid Wales Centre of Teacher Education

The First Minister of Wales, Rt. Hon Carwyn Jones, today (14 January 2011) launched the new North and Mid Wales Centre of Teacher Education.

The launch took place at the School of Education & Lifelong Learning at Bangor University, and over 150 staff, students and school mentors at Aberystwyth joined the launch via a live video link. There was also a live video link with the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales studio in Cardiff. Read more ...

Education Research Seminar

January 24 @ 3pm. Dr Enlli Thomas: 'Exploring bilinguals’ social use of language inside and out of the minority language classroom' There will also be research presentations given by EdD students Torka Joyce, Ann McCormack and Claire Williams. All are welcome. Tea and coffee will be available. For venue details please contact Janet Thomas on eds066@bangor.ac.uk

Formula 1 Event at Bangor

Bangor University’s School of Education hosted the annual regional final of the ‘F1 in Schools’ event this week. (03.12.2010) Find out more

Congratulations to Bangor graduate

Llew Davies has been voted Teacher of the Year (02.11.2010) Find out more.

Initial Teacher Training at Bangor Top in the UK for Student Satisfaction

It has been all smiles at Education since the results of the National Student Survey were published. The School of Education and Lifelong Learning, in the College of Arts, Education and Humanities was rated top out of 58 HEIs across the UK for student’s overall satisfaction on the Initial Teacher Training courses. Read more ...