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Description: This year's annual Priestley Lecture with Dr Anthony Seldon was one of the most successful for many years

Description: Priestly Lecture: Schools should offer compulsory qualifications in good manners and self control according to Dr Anthony Seldon, Britain's best known Headmaster and the acclaimed biographer of recent prime ministers.

Description: The coalition government has proven itself willing to be bold in reforming the state education system. The landscape of schooling has already begun to change as a result of moves to make academy status the norm across England and establish so-called 'free schools', both directly funded (in whole or part) by the state and systematically lessening the role of local authorities. Michael Gove's recent statement on the status of GCSEs and the introduction of a new qualification – the English Baccalaureate Certificate (EBC) – have been greeted as another momentous change, but what do the reforms really mean and who is likely to win (and lose) as a result

Description: Senior Lecturer Dr Kevin Myers, receives the 2012 School of Education and College of Social Sciences Award for Excellence in Teaching

Description: The Bulgarian newspaper UTRO has published an interview with Dr Chris Williams, about disabled children in state orphanages. Chris was in Bulgaria doing a series of lectures about his research into crime and abuse against people with learning difficulties.

Description: Students and staff on the International Studies in Education (ISE) course, recently appeared on Korean National Assembly TV (NATV) discussing citizenship education in Britain.

Description: Dr Chris Williams has been working with former School of Education staff and students, in Bulgaria and Romania.

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