About the School of Education
The School of Education is recognised among the top 100 globally. We research and teach across the full human lifespan, from early years and compulsory schooling to further and higher education, adult, community and informal learning. Our work is intellectually diverse and expressed through five Research and Teaching Groups, that reflect the breadth of our expertise.
We are a global institution whose research engages with education across the world and whose students come from every continent. We are proudly of the city of Glasgow and shaped by its history, culture and civic values.
We hold a longstanding commitment to professional formation at scale, delivering accredited qualifications that sustain Scotland’s educational workforce. We also uphold a distinctive commitment to Catholic education in the spirit of the 1918 Education Act, supporting teachers and leaders who serve Catholic schools and their wider communities.
The School of Education is committed to social justice in education and to education research and practice of the highest quality. We value education for its intrinsic worth and its contribution to prosperity, equity and sustainability. We aspire to be a world leader in addressing the contemporary educational issues of our times and to making a difference for society’s most vulnerable and educationally disadvantaged. We achieve that by being intellectual leaders who facilitate debate and inform decisions locally and globally.
We aim to be recognised as one of the best schools of education in the world and one of the best schools of education for the world. In pursuing this, we value collegial disagreement and seek to model critical and informed debate. We believe that rigorous discussions in good faith are essential to advance knowledge and to address society’s most pressing questions.
The St Andrew's Foundation for Catholic Teacher Education
The St Andrew's Foundation is the home of Catholic Teacher Education in Scotland and an international hub of knowledge exchange and research. It is located in the School of Education and works in partnership with the Scottish Government and the Bishops’ Conference to ensure a high-quality education for prospective teachers.