All over the world there is growing recognition of the importance of good quality education and its links to economic success and individual and social wellbeing. There is enhanced awareness too, of the role that social work and social care can play in ensuring that everyone achieves their potential. The School of Education and Social Work actively engages with these concerns through high level research, teaching and scholarship - to serve the needs of its students as well as the wider community.
Teaching and research in the School of Education and Social Work
The School provides numerous opportunities for learning and professional development in an environment which encourages intellectual engagement, reflection and debate. A wide range of programmes is offered - from first degrees, certificates and diplomas, to Masters level qualifications, professional doctorates and PhDs. Our teaching is informed by cutting-edge research on issues of significance in education, childhood and youth and social work and social care. Staff across the School are known for the quality of their teaching and research; locally, nationally and internationally.
The School of Education and Social Work is the only School at Sussex in which both Departments have been ranked in the top ten in the Times newspaper's Good University Guide 2012 (Education 7th and Social Work & Social Care 3rd respectively). Whether you are interested in an initial teaching or a social work qualification, want to learn more about childhood and youth, or wish to undertake postgraduate or post-qualifying study, we look forward to welcoming you to our School where you will find a warm, intellectually stimulating and professionally relevant experience.
Acting Head of the School of Education and Social Work
Professor Suzy Braye
How to find us
The School of Education and Social Work is located in Essex House on the University of Sussex campus in Falmer - No.12 in blue on the attached map:
The following links to Google and Multi maps should prove helpful for working out your route to the university. Both maps show aerial views of the campus:
See also the university website's "Location" page for more detailed maps and directions.
