Faculty news

For the twelfth year running, IOE - UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society remains the top place in the world to study Education in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025.

Professor Jessica Ringrose spoke to the London Assembly Police and Crime Committee calling for high-quality relationships and sex education (RSE) that covers sexual violence and digital literacy.

CLOSER is launching a new annual Emerging Longitudinal Scholars Symposium Series. This year’s symposium focuses on health, wellbeing and labour market (non-) participation.

Professor Alison Clark-Wilson will bring her expertise in educational technology (EdTech) as an advisor to the government’s new EdTech Evidence Board project.

The new route into teaching secondary school maths will open up the profession to more people, through our degree apprenticeship.

Several studies from IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society, feature in the British Educational Research Association (BERA)’s ‘50@50’ portrait of 50 years of impactful educational research.

History teacher Danilo Kovač has been named a top 50 finalist in the 2025 Global Teacher Prize.

Expertise by Professor Lynn Ang has contributed to the research behind the Royal Foundation Centre for Early Childhood ‘Shaping Us’, a campaign led by HRH The Princess of Wales.

An IOE project led by Dr Sinéad Harmey collaborated with families and their nursery school in East London to create strategies that develop children’s writing skills from an early age.

Artificial Intelligence is purported to hold much promise for education and society​, yet it also raises many technical, practical and ethical questions for teaching and learning.

UCL will contribute to the coalition’s mission to protect the right to education for all and steer its transformation in the digital age.

The UK government’s Department for Education (DfE) has confirmed UCL IOE as a lead provider for the new Early Career Teacher Entitlement (ECTE), commencing in September 2025.

The Blended and Online Learning Design short course developed by IOE experts has won the 2024 Global MOOC and Online Education Alliance (GMA) Award.

Congratulations to members of UCL's community who have been recognised in the 2025 New Year Honours. Three IOE staff and five alumni have earned recognition in the Honours.

Four new degrees will inspire students to understand the social forces that shape society and explore diverse sociological approaches to social change, cultural norms and the modern world.