The
Institute of Education (
IOE) is a constituent college of the
University of LondonBased primarily in London, England, United Kingdom, the University of London is a federal mega university made up of 31 affiliates: 19 separate university institutions, and 12 research institutes...
, dedicated to postgraduate study and research in the field of
educationEducation in its broadest sense is any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character or physical ability of an individual...
. The Institute is the largest education research body in the
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, with over 700 research students in the doctoral school. It also has the largest portfolio of postgraduate programmes in education in the UK, with approximately 4,000 students taking
Master'sA master's degree is an academic degree granted to individuals who have undergone study demonstrating a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice...
programmes, and a further 1,200 students doing
PGCEPGCE can stand for:* Postgraduate Certificate in Education, an English, Welsh and Northern Irish qualification that trains students to become a teacher; it includes credits towards a master's degree...
teacher-training courses.
The Institute has long been recognised as a leading centre of educational enquiry.
The
Institute of Education (
IOE) is a constituent college of the
University of LondonBased primarily in London, England, United Kingdom, the University of London is a federal mega university made up of 31 affiliates: 19 separate university institutions, and 12 research institutes...
, dedicated to postgraduate study and research in the field of
educationEducation in its broadest sense is any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character or physical ability of an individual...
. The Institute is the largest education research body in the
United KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...
, with over 700 research students in the doctoral school. It also has the largest portfolio of postgraduate programmes in education in the UK, with approximately 4,000 students taking
Master'sA master's degree is an academic degree granted to individuals who have undergone study demonstrating a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice...
programmes, and a further 1,200 students doing
PGCEPGCE can stand for:* Postgraduate Certificate in Education, an English, Welsh and Northern Irish qualification that trains students to become a teacher; it includes credits towards a master's degree...
teacher-training courses.
The Institute has long been recognised as a leading centre of educational enquiry. At any one time it hosts over 100 research projects funded by
Research CouncilThe UK Research Councils, of which there are currently seven, are publicly-funded agencies responsible for co-ordinating and funding particular areas of research, including the arts, humanities, all areas of science and engineering...
s, government departments and other agencies. The Institute publishes
Educate~Educate~ is The Journal of Doctoral Research in Education, published by the Doctoral School at the Institute of Education, University of London.-Publication:...
– The Journal of Doctoral Research in Education
History
In 1900, a report on the training of teachers, produced by the Higher Education Sub-Committee of the Technical Education Board (TEB) of the
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, called for further provision for the training of teachers in London in universities. The TEB submitted a scheme to the Senate of the
University of LondonBased primarily in London, England, United Kingdom, the University of London is a federal mega university made up of 31 affiliates: 19 separate university institutions, and 12 research institutes...
for a new day training college which would train teachers of both sexes when most existing courses were taught in in single sex colleges or departments. The principal of the proposed college was also to act as the Professor of the Theory, History and Practice of Education at the University.. The new college was opened on the 6 October 1902 as the
London Day Training College under the administration of the LCC
Its first Principal was Sir John Adams, who had previous been the Professor of Education at
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. Adams was joined with an mistress and master of Method (later Vice-Principals).. The bulk of the teaching was carried out by the Vice-Principals and other specialist were appointed to teach specific subjects, including
Cyril BurtSir Cyril Lodowic Burt was an English educational psychologist who contributed to educational psychology and claimed to have developed the method of factor analysis in psychological testing, although his mentor and predecessor as chair of the psychology department at University College London,...
. Initially the LDTC only provided teacher training courses lasting between 1 and 3 years.
In 1909 the LDTC became a school of the University of London and was wholly transferred to the University and was renamed the
University of London, Institute of Education. Gradually the Institute expanded its activities and began to train secondary school teachers and offered higher degrees. It also moved into specific areas of research with its Child Development Department, administered by
Susan Sutherland IsaacsSusan Isaacs is an American novelist and screenwriter. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, educated at Queens College, and worked as a senior editor at Seventeen magazine. She married Elkan Abramowitz, a lawyer, in 1968 and in 1970 left work to stay at home with her newborn son, Andrew. Three...
and the training of teachers for the colonial service. At the outbreak of
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, the Institute was temporarly transferred to the
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.
As a result of the report of the McNair Committee, who were established by the
Board of EducationThe Ministry of Education was a central government department in the United Kingdom. It was previously called the Board of Education.- See also :* Department for Education and Skills, created in 2001 until 2007...
to examine recruitment and training of teachers and youth leaders a new scheme for teacher training was established in England. ‘Area Training Organisations’ (ATO) were created to coordinate the provision of teacher training and were responsible for the overall administration of all teacher training colleges within their area. The ATO for the London area was based at the University London under the name
University of London, Institute of Education, which was responsible for around 30 existing teacher training colleges and education departments, including the existing Institute of Education. The existing Institute (referred to as the ‘Central Institute’) and the new ATO (referred to as the ‘Wider Institute’) had separate identities, but confusingly were administered from the same building and by the same administrate staff. This dual identity continued until the Wider Institute gradually disappeared and was finally dissolved in 1975.
In 1987 the Institute once again became a school of the University of London and was incorporated by Royal Charter.
Premises
The first home of the Institute of Education (as the London Day Training College) was Passmore Edwards Hall on
Clare MarketClare Market was an area of London to the west of Lincoln's Inn Fields, between the Strand and Drury Lane, with Vere Street adjoining its western side. It was named for the food market in established there, in Clement's Inn Fields, by John Holles, 2nd Earl of Clare...
, which belonged to the
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. It moved again in its second year to the Northampton Technical Institute in
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and the College of Preceptors building in
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. In 1907 the College moved to its first purpose built building on
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. In 1938, the Institute moved to the
Senate House complexSenate House is the administrative centre of the University of London, situated in the heart of Bloomsbury, London between the School of Oriental and African Studies to the north, with the British Museum to the south...
of the
University of LondonBased primarily in London, England, United Kingdom, the University of London is a federal mega university made up of 31 affiliates: 19 separate university institutions, and 12 research institutes...
on
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. After
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, the Senate House complex was unworkable due to sharp increase in numbers of students. The Institute began to expand into other buildings in the neighbouring area, including four houses on Bedford Way which were leased as a residential hall for students in 1946, a building on
Tavistock SquareTavistock Square is a public square in Bloomsbury, in the London Borough of Camden with a fine garden.-Public art:The centre-piece of the gardens is a statue of Mahatma Gandhi, which was installed in 1968....
as home of the music department in 1958, and a few 'huts' on Malet Street (formerly belonging to the University of London Student Union) where the library was transferred.
In 1960, plans were prepared for a new building on Bedford Way designed by
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, though only part of his initial design was completed. The library was one of the aspects dropped from the design and in 1968 it was moved from huts into a converted office block on Ridgemount Street. The Bedford building was completed in 1975 and was official opened by Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, Chancellor of the University of London in 1977. The library finally moved into an extension of the Bedford Way building in 1992 and was renamed the 'Newsam Library' after Peter Newsam, the Director who oversaw the new construction.
Newsam Library
The Institute's Newsam Library is the largest in its field in Europe, containing more than 300,000 volumes and nearly 2,000 periodicals.
Main Collections
- Educational collection of publications covering every aspect of education in the United Kingdom.
- International collection covering aspects of the organisation of education outside the UK
- Reference collection including reference works, indexes, legal guidance, statistics of education in the UK and recent official government publications.
- Other subjects collection containing publications on educational related subjects including psychology, sociology, linguistics etc.
- Large selection of teaching materials for all subjects and stages of the curriculum with children’s fiction and picture books.
Basic Skills Agency Resource Centre
The Basic Skills Agency Resource Centre, which was established in 1993 by the Basic Skills Agency, contains teaching materials for adult education and is available for anyone interested in basic skills. In 2005 the Basic Skills Agency passed responsibility the funding for the collection onto the Institute and the collection now sits within the Newsam library's teaching resources collection.
Special Collections
There are over 20 special collections of publications held by the Newsam Library. Some of the collections relate to a specific subject area or have been collection by a single source. The collection contains a comprehensive range of documents on education in the UK, the National Textbook Collection, and other unique resources.
Archives
The Institute has been amassing archive collections since the 1940s, and now holds over 100 deposited collections as well as the records of the Institute itself. The deposited collections contain the personal of educationalist and other notable people involved with education and the records of educational organisations such as trade unions, and education projects. The Archives are open to both internal and external researchers by appointment only.
Selected Current Staff
- Mary Stiasny, Education Policy and Internationalism
- Celia Hoyles, Mathematics Education and UK Government's Chief Adviser for Mathematics
- Richard Noss, Mathematics Education and co-director of LKL
- Peter Aggleton, Health, Education and Social Wellbeing
- Diana Laurillard, Learning with Digital Technologies, LKL, IOE
- Stephen Ball, Karl Mannheim Professor of Sociology of Education
- Michael F.D. Young, Scholar in Sociology of Education and Knowledge
- Karen Evans, Lifelong and Work-Based Learning
- David Gillborn, Professor of Critical Race Studies in Education
- David Guile, Work-Based Learning, TVET and Lifelong Learning
- John Hardcastle, English with interest in socio-cultural thought & Activity Theory
Notable former staff
- Basil Bernstein
Basil Bernstein was a British sociologist and linguist, known for his work in the sociology of education.-Biography:...
(1924-2000), sociologist and linguist
- Max Black
Max Black was a distinguished British-American - Azeri philosopher of Jewish descent, who was a leading influence in analytic philosophy in the first half of the twentieth century...
(1909-1988), philosopher
- Cyril Burt
Sir Cyril Lodowic Burt was an English educational psychologist who contributed to educational psychology and claimed to have developed the method of factor analysis in psychological testing, although his mentor and predecessor as chair of the psychology department at University College London,...
(1883-1971), educational psychologist
- Rosemary Firth
Rosemary, Lady Firth was a British social anthropologist, and wife of Sir Raymond Firth. She specialised in the field of domestic economy.-Life:...
(1912–2001), social anthropologist
- Harvey Goldstein
Harvey Goldstein is a British statistician known for his contributions to multilevel modelling methodology and software, and for applying this to educational assessment and league tables....
(1939–), statistician
- Susan Sutherland Isaacs
Susan Sutherland Isaacs was a Lancashire born English educational psychologist and psychoanalyst. She published studies on the intellectual and social development of children and promoted the nursery school movement...
, (1885–1948), educational psychologist and psychoanalyst
- George Barker Jeffery
George Barker Jeffery was a leading mathematical physicist in the early twentieth century. He is probably best known to the scientifically literate public as the translator of papers by Einstein, Lorentz, and other fathers of relativity theory .-Career:Jeffery was born in 1891 and educated at...
(1891-1957), mathematician and educationalist
- Leonard John Lewis
Leonard John Lewis was a British academic. He worked as an educationalist in Nigeria and was a lecturer at the Institute of Education of the University of London. He served as Principal of the University of Zimbabwe for the transition to Zimbabwe's independence, despite his somewhat controversial...
, international educationalist
- Karl Mannheim
Karl Mannheim , or Mannheim Károly in the original writing of his name, was a Jewish Hungarian-born sociologist, influential in the first half of the 20th century and one of the founding fathers of classical sociology...
(1893-1947), sociologist
- Marion Richardson
Marion Richardson was British artist, educator and author who published workbooks on penmanship and handwriting.-Biography:...
(1892–1946), artist, educator and author who published workbooks on penmanship and handwriting
- Christian Schiller
Louis Christian Schiller MC , known as Christian Schiller, was HM Inspector of Schools in the United Kingdom and a promoter of progressive ideas in primary education....
(1895-1976), HM Inspector and senior lecturer
- Philip E. Vernon
Philip Ewart Vernon was a British psychologist. He studied race and intelligence.Born in Oxford, England, he attended St. John's College, Cambridge and received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 1927. Vernon studied contributions of environmental and genetic factors to intellectual...
, (1905-1987), psychologist
Notable alumni
- Quentin Blake
Quentin Saxby Blake, CBE, FCSD, RDI, is an English cartoonist, illustrator and children's author, well known for his collaborations with writer Roald Dahl.-Education:...
(born 1932), cartoonist, illustrator and children's book author.
- Reginald Horace Blyth
Reginald Horace Blyth was an English author and devotee of Japanese culture.-Early life:Born in Essex, England, the son of a railway clerk, Blyth grew up to be an idealistic young man. In 1916, at the height of World War I, he was imprisoned at Wormwood Scrubs as a conscientious objector and a...
(1898-1964), author and devotee of Japanese culture.
- Valerie Davey
Valerie Davey is a former Labour Member of Parliament for Bristol West in England.-Early life:...
(b. 1940), former Labour Member of Parliament for Bristol West.
- Michael Duane
Michael Duane was a British teacher known for his progressive educational views, his belief in inclusivity and a multi-racial approach, his encouragement of informal relationships between staff and pupils and his opposition to corporal punishment...
(1915-1997, controversial head teacher.
- Bryan Davies, Baron Davies of Oldham
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, PC, (b.1939), Labour member of the House of Lords.
- U. A. Fanthorpe
Ursula Askham Fanthorpe, CBE, FRSL was an English poet. She published as UA Fanthorpe.-Early life:She was educated in Surrey and at St Anne's College, Oxford, where she received a first-class degree in English language and literature, and subsequently taught English at Cheltenham Ladies' College...
(1929-2009), poet.
- Beryl Gilroy
Beryl Agatha Gilroy was a novelist. She grew up in a large, extended family, largely under the influence of her maternal grandmother, Sally Louisa James , a herbalist, manager of the family small-holding, keen reader, imparter to the young Beryl of the stories of ‘Long Bubbies’,...
(née Answick) (1924-2001), novelist.
- Sally Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Huyton
Sally Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Huyton is a British Labour Party politician.Morgan was educated at Belvedere School for Girls, Liverpool, and at Durham University, where she graduated in 1980 with a B.A. in geography. After taking a Postgraduate Certificate in Education at King's College London...
(b.1959), British Labour Party politician
- William R. Newland (potter)
William Rupert Newland was a New Zealand born studio potter who lived in England after the Second World War.From 1945-1947 he studied painting at the Chelsea School of Art. He studied art education at the Institute of Education, 1947-8 where he learned pottery under Beth Wright, who sent him to...
(1919-1998), New Zealand born studio potter.
- Harry Mwaanga Nkumbula (1917?-1983), Zambian nationalist leader who assisted in the struggle for the independence of Northern Rhodesia.
- Harry Rée
Harry Alfred Rée DSO OBE was a British educationist and wartime member of the Special Operations Executive.Harry Rée was born in England, the son of Dr Alfred Rée, a chemist who was descended from an illustrious Danish Jewish family, and Lavinia Dimmick, the American-born great granddaughter of...
(1914-1991), British educationalist and member of the Special Operations Executive.
- Harold Rosenthal
Harold D. Rosenthal OBE was a British music critic, writer, lecturer, and broadcaster about opera.He was educated at the City of London School and then went on to University College, London, where he gained his BA in 1940 before continuing his studies at the London Institute of Education.He became...
(1917–1987), music critic.
- Brian Simon
Professor the Hon. Brian Simon , was an English educationist and historian.-Background and early life:The younger son of Ernest Darwin Simon, 1st Baron Simon of Wythenshawe and Shena, Lady Simon, he was the brother of the second Baron Simon of Wythenshawe, Roger Simon, the solicitor and writer on...
(1915–2002), educationalist and historian.
- Katherine Weare
Katherine Weare is a Professor of Education at the University of Southampton, England.She was educated at the Grey Coat Hospital, Westminster, the University of Kent at Canterbury, Goldsmiths College, University of London and the Institute of Education, University of London...
(born 1950), Professor of Education
Principals of the London Day Training College
- 1902-1922 - John Adams (1857–1934)
- 1922-1932 – Sir Percy Nunn (1870–1944)
Directors of the Institute of Education
- 1932-1936 - Sir Percy Nunn (1870–1944)
- 1936-1945 – Sir Fred Clarke (1880–1952)
- 1945-1957 - George Barker Jeffery
George Barker Jeffery was a leading mathematical physicist in the early twentieth century. He is probably best known to the scientifically literate public as the translator of papers by Einstein, Lorentz, and other fathers of relativity theory .-Career:Jeffery was born in 1891 and educated at...
(1891–1957)
- 1958-1973 - Lionel Elvin (1905-2005)
- 1973-1983 - William Taylor
- 1983-1989 - Denis Lawton
- 1989-1994 – Peter Newsam
Sir Peter A. Newsam is an English educationist.Newsam was born at Gloucester and educated at the Dragon School and Clifton College. He then went to Queen's College, Oxford where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics...
- 1994-2000 - Peter Mortimore
- 2000-present Geoff Whitty
Geoffrey "Geoff" James Whitty is the Director of the Institute of Education, University of London, in the United Kingdom.Born in 1946, Whitty was educated at Latymer Upper School and graduated from St John's College, Cambridge...
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