Kerry Burnett

UCAS Teacher Training fee reduced to £1

It now costs just £1 to apply for postgraduate teacher training programmes starting in 2018. The Department for Education is subsidising the UCAS Teacher Training application fee until the end of July 2018, so apply as soon as possible to benefit from it! Find out more about postgraduate teacher training options at Brighton. If you’ve…

Falmer campus Family Fun Day 2018

On Saturday 11 March the fourth Family Fun Day took place on the Falmer campus. This annual event is for all parents who study at Falmer and was attended by students studying education, humanities, health science and social science degrees with the invite extended to their children and partners. University staff members and their children…

New £40,000 bursaries for ex-military personnel to get into teaching

Bursaries of £40,000 are being offered to ex-service personnel to train as teachers in a new scheme that will replace the Troops to Teachers Programme, launched at the University of Brighton in 2013. The bursaries will provide veterans of all three services – British Army, Royal Navy and the RAF – with greater flexibility. Once…

The science behind sport

Tim Holtam, School of Education graduate, founder of Brighton Table Tennis Club and former Coach of the Year is featured in a Latest TV news item on the science behind sport. Watch it here.

Family Fun Day

A hugely successful Family Fun Day took place at the university’s Falmer campus on Saturday 11th March. Over 170 adults and children enjoyed this year’s Family Fun Day which took place in the Checkland building. It was open to students and staff who study or work on the Falmer campus and who have young children….

Education student inspires the SU Winter appeal

Education MA student Nadia Pashkevich received a donation plea from Samara’s Aid Appeal and felt compelled to get the University of Brighton Students’ Union (SU) on board. Samara’s Aid Appeal is a Brighton-based organisation that sends humanitarian and medical aid to Syria, Iraq and the Middle East. Nadia received an email from them saying they…

The Really Useful PE Book

Two University of Brighton academics have published their fourth edited book with Routledge. Dr Gary Stidder and Sid Hayes have released The Really Useful Physical Education Book: Learning and Teaching across the 11 – 16 age range with contributions from 16 other University of Brighton PE, dance, sport science and sport coaching staff members. Fully updated…

The School of Education welcomes young researchers

Four budding researchers arrived at the Falmer campus last week to present their research to the PGCE Primary cohort. They were invited by Senior Lecturers Pamela Lewis and Dr Rachel Marks as part of a collaborative project between the University of Brighton, The Open University and pupils from City Whitehawk Academy, Brighton. The early researchers shared their enquiries,…

Batty about inclusivity

There is a tangible community ethos about Brighton Table Tennis Club (BTTC) (Registered Charity Number 1160103), which was co-founded by Brighton alumnus Tim Holtam (Graduate Teaching Programme 2011) in February 2007. Tim started the club with fellow former international Table Tennis player, Harry McCarney, as they were keen to share their love of the sport with local…

Children’s Literature expert supporting the children of Calais

Pamela Lewis, Senior Lecturer at the University of Brighton’s School of Education was interviewed on radio reverb to discuss the importance of a project that takes books to children in the Calais Camps. The School Bus Project has invited pupils from Brighton and Hove Primary schools to record themselves reading aloud their favourite books.