Keyword: Faculty of Education

There will be nearly fifty open vacancies for fixed-term doctoral candidate positions at the University of Turku from 1 January 2019 onwards. The call for applications will be open 3–21 September 2018. This is already the sixth year for all the 16 doctoral programmes to open their call for applications simultaneously.

Professor Martin Thrupp spoke at the Department of Education about a New Zealand primary school assessment policy called National Standards which was first announced in 2007 and was expected to improve the achievement of children. According to Thrupp, the policy has been a failure in many ways.

Ghadah Ibrahim is clearly inspired by phenomenon-based teaching. That is a teaching method where teachers of different subjects can collaborate and study the same phenomenon from the perspective of many different subjects. It is a novel teaching method for the Saudi teacher, one of the gems she has discovered while improving her teaching skills at the Department of Teacher Education of the University of Turku.

There are nearly fifty open vacancies for fixed-term doctoral candidate positions at the University of Turku from 1 January 2018 onwards. The call for applications is open 1–20 September and positions are open to all the 16 doctoral programmes.

Altogether 25 Saudi teachers have come to the University of Turku to strengthen their language and pedagogical skills during the next six months. The training, which is carried out as transnational education, includes English language studies, studies in the latest theory in education, and practical training. The training was commissioned by the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Education.

– This has been a really great day. This prestigious celebration, the many traditions and that we were conferred in the year that Finland turns 100 feels like a privilege, said Doctor of Philosophy Annika Adamsson outside the Turku Cathedral. And she was not the only one. Finland 100 celebration was mentioned dozens of times throughout the celebration.

Department of Teacher Education hosted the NordFo 2016 -conference under the theme Make it NOW! Learning, Exploring, Understanding in the University of Turku in the Rauma Unit.

The Faculty of Education of the University of Turku is developing English teachers' continuing education in Oman. Finland University and the Ministry of Education of the Sultanate of Oman have made a contract worth of 900,000 euros for the following 2.5 years.