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St Edmund Hall

The Crisis of the Meritocracy: Education and Democracy in Modern Britain

Professor Peter Mandler gives the 2014 Emden Lecture at St Edmund Hall.
Department of Education Public Seminars

Contrasting the dynamics of English  and Finnish education policy­making

A public seminar from the Department of Education, delivered by Dr Jaakko Kauko, University of Helsinki.
Department of Education Public Seminars

English language policy and educational planning: Issues and concerns in Asian contexts

A public seminar from the Department of Education, delivered by Dr Roger Barnard.
Department of Education Public Seminars

Are there some questions that can’t be answered? The limits of research in teacher education

A public seminar from the Department of Education, delivered by Dr Katharine Burn and Trevor Mutton.
Department of Education Public Seminars

The rise and rise of testing and use of assessment data in Australia

A public seminar from the Department of Education, delivered by Professor Val Klenowski, Queensland University of Technology.
St Hilda's College Podcasts

What should the State wish for all its children?

Fiona Millar, journalist, gives the 2014 Lady English Lecture at St Hilda's College
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Converting academic research into education activities

Andrew McLellan, Pitt Rivers Musuem, gives a talk on how the Pitt Rivers Museum has been using academic research to create new educational activities
Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks

"Matters of Scale" Part 3 - Nanomedicine

Dr Sonia Trigueros explains how she is using nanotechnologies to create targeted drug delivery systems. Chemotherapy is a particularly harmful treatment, with patients losing their hair and suffering from infections due to damage to their immune systems.
Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks

"Matters of Scale" Part 2 - Biology and the Problem with Scale

Dr Sylvia MacLain talks about how water creates a problem when researching biology. Structures can be studied when they are in solid form, but approximately 60% of our bodies are made of water.
Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks

"Matters of Scale" Part 1 - Extremes of Scale

Professors Pedro Ferreira and Alan Barr explain what scale means to them, from particle physics to the visible universe. At the subatomic level, gravity has a surprisingly large effect and particles are so small that they have no size.
Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks

"Origins" Part 3 - Origins of Human Life

Drs Suzannah Williams and Dagan Wells explore the secrets and processes behind human fertilisation. Sperm and eggs must face huge challenges before they even meet. After fertilisation, they go on to form a small ball of cells with huge potential.
Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks

"Origins" Part 2 - Origins of Earth and the Solar System

Professor Alex Halliday explains how planets form from nothing but an area of space full of dust. Tiny differences between the elements that make up meteorites can give you an idea of how old they are and which part of the solar system they came from.
Big Questions - with Oxford Sparks

"Origins" Part 1 - Origins of the Universe

Professor Jo Dunkley explains how we can look back in time at the light from the early Universe. This ultra-cold light can be used to create a picture from soon after the Big Bang.
Alumni Weekend

The Butterfly Defect: How globalisation creates systemic risks

Globalisation has brought us vast benefits including growth in incomes, education, innovation and connectivity. Ian Goldin argues that it also has the potential to destabilise our societies.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

A lost generation? Education opportunities for Syrian refugee children in Lebanon

Special seminar by Dr Maha Shuayb (Centre for Lebanese Studies), which took place at the Oxford Department of International Development on 19 May 2014.
University College

The Online Revolution: Education for Everyone

The 2014 Univ Access Lecture took place on Tuesday 17th June in Merton college. Professor Daphne Koller, co-founder of Coursera and Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University, discussed “The Online Revolution: Education for Everyone”.
Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies

Schoolgirls, Money and Rebellion in Japan

Talk given by Dr Sharon Kinsella, University of Manchester as part of the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies seminar series
Department of Education Public Seminars

The Class: Connections and Disconnections in the Digital Age

This talk by Prof. Sonia Livingstone, London School of Economics, reflects on a recent ethnographic study of a year 9 class – researched at school and at home over an academic year.
Department of Education Public Seminars

From Multiversity to Postmodern University

This seminar presentation traces the emergence of postmodernist models of higher education institutions (HEIs) from Clark Kerr’s 1963 idea of the American multiversity to Zygmunt Bauman’s more recent notion of the postmodern university.
Department of Education Public Seminars

Developing a Dialogic Approach to Early Secondary School Science and Mathematics Teaching: insights and findings from the epiSTEMe project.

Prof. Kenneth Ruthven gives a talk for the Department of Education public seminar series

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