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Centre Status for the IOE’s Centre for Holocaust Education
The Institute of Education (IOE) is pleased to announce the awarding of centre status to the newly renamed Centre for Holocaust Education (formerly known as the Holocaust Education Development Programme).
Centre status is conferred by the University of London Senate and in doing so recognises the distinctive contribution of the work undertaken by the IOE’s Centre for Holocaust Education (CfHE) as it enters a new three year phase of development. This has also been marked by renewed and extended funding from Pears Foundation and the Department for Education.
In conferring the title of Centre for Holocaust Education the senate has recognised the distinctive nature of the IOE’s Holocaust education programmes and research as well as the activity that has been undertaken in its first three years of existence. During its first phase large scale national research into approaches to teaching and learning about the Holocaust across England was undertaken. As a result of the research findings a range of teacher development programmes have been created with more than 2,500 teachers having benefitted from the IOE’s groundbreaking Holocaust education programmes.
An official launch of the Centre will follow in the coming months.
Director of the Institute of Education, Professor Chris Husbands said: “The IOE is committed to excellence in teaching and learning about the Holocaust and I am very proud that we provide a national programme that is at the leading edge of its field, and has been recognised as worthy of centre status.”
Director of the IOE’s Centre for Holocaust Education, Professor Stuart Foster said: “The conferring of centre status recognises the vital importance of our work, the only programme globally that brings together research, scholarship and classroom practice in the field of Holocaust education. We are delighted to be entering a new phase of our work as the IOE’s Centre for Holocaust Education.”