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Welcome to the Department of Education
In joining us, you enter a community that values and enjoys teaching, learning and research in an environment of excellence. We specialise in innovative and flexibly taught programmes and research degrees with a strong professional orientation. Many of our students are mid-career professionals who bring with them extensive knowledge and experience which informs and enriches our learning community. All our teaching is underpinned by a belief that adults learn best in an environment which is evidence-led, encourages reflective practice and a peer-led approach to teaching and learning. We pride ourselves on the high quality of professional support that we provide to all our students. We are also proud of our extensive research portfolio and try to ensure that our taught programmes interact with and inform our vibrant research programme. Our three research centres - the Centre for International Education, the Centre for Inquiry & Research in Cognition, Learning and Teaching and the Centre for Higher Education and Equity Research - are very active in research and consultancy work. The University of Sussex occupies a beautiful campus in an area of outstanding natural beauty on the edge of the Sussex Downs close to the lively seaside city of Brighton & Hove. We feel privileged to live and work here. Education research at Sussex is rated as world-leading according to the latest national assessment of research quality. It achieved joint 11th position out of 82 institutions in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), placing it in the top 20 for the subject nationally. For research judged to be at world-leading level, we achieved joint 6th position nationally. Our overall grade profile for Education was rated as follows:
So 85% of our Education research activity is world-leading, internationally excellent or internationally recognised. These results confirm Sussex's position as one of the leading education research departments in the UK. You can read more about the University of Sussex's 2008 RAE results at http://www.sussex.ac.uk/res/rae08.
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