In the first of a short series of new episodes in The CREU Podcast, StranCREU director Prof Noel Purdy spoke to Nick Mathison MLA, current chair of Northern Ireland Assembly Education Committee. Listen now on Spotify, Apple Podcasts or Soundcloud here: soundcloud.com/creu-podcast/c…

'Such political dysfunctionality has led to an executive failure to grapple resolutely with any significant systemic challenges and instead has created a frustrating sense of policy paralysis'

Powerful article from Prof Noel Purdy on Northern Ireland's crisis-ridden education system

Thank you to Stranmillis University College for having us deliver a series of workshops for our soon-to-be PGCE (Early Years) graduates. We covered poverty, behaviour management, timebudgets and sexism in schools. Good luck to the new teachers for their future careers!

Director of StranCREU, Prof Noel Purdy, writes about the state of the NI education system in the latest Tes.

All schools are committed to the pastoral care, emotional health and wellbeing of children and young people, but too often pastoral leaders report feeling overwhelmed but under-resourced and under-supported in their increasingly busy and challenging professional roles.

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Dr. Jill Dunn from Stranmillis University College leads the fourth webinar in our Page Turners series. Delving into the social, emotional, and cognitive benefits of reading for pleasure.

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Calling all educators! This year's NAPCE/Stranmillis pastoral care conference is on 24 June 2024 Stranmillis University College Speakers from Education NI Education and Training Inspectorate and award-winning local schools. Focus on leadership and ACEs. Full details and registration here:
BelfastSymposium24.eventbrite.co.uk

Join us on Thursday 16th May for an evening celebrating the many ways in which we as a college have shared over the last year.
REGISTER VIA EVENTBRITE HERE:
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Excellent lunchtime research seminar today led by Dr Deborah Webster on the online screen time debate (Is more time spent online always bad for children?) and presenting our recent Safeguarding Board for Northern Ireland Growing Up Online in NI research onlinesafetyhub.safeguardingni.org/growing-up-onl…

Research undertaken by @strancreu (funded by Mental Health Champion for NI) explored the perceived impact of the non-testing year of post-primary transfer on children, parents and educators. The report ‘Transfer Talks’ launches today!

Today, we publish our #GrowingUpOnlineNI Spotlight Report on Parents and Carers by StranCREU. It acknowledges that being online brings many benefits to children, but clearly voices the challenges and sense of fear that some parents feel.

onlinesafetyhub.safeguardingni.org/growing-up-onl…

We're all set up and ready to roll at Day 1 of the #UCASDiscovery event at EIKON today. Come and say hello to our team and find out why Stran is the place for you!

A very creative afternoon involving Stranmillis students, giraffes and Olympic dreams at Fighting Words NI A fantastic charity that does really important work with children and young people Stranmillis University College

We had a fantastic time today meeting pupils from 8 schools across Enniskillen at the Fermanagh Area Learning Community Career Convention today, hosted at South West College!

From tomorrow until Friday you can speak to us at the #UCASDiscovery event at EIKON, Lisburn.

NI's Daily Mile initiative, discussed in a podcast episode, promotes 15 minutes of activity thrice weekly for kids & teachers. Drs. Brenda McKay-Redmond & Gavin Breslin delve into its origins, benefits, & ongoing research efforts.
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What an incredible experience for our B.Ed students Stranmillis University College getting to teach in a very different context. They really love their beautiful pupils. diane mcclelland

StranCREU (Noel Purdy, Glenda Walsh and Karen Orr) led a symposium today at the ESAI conference in Maynooth University focusing on our recent research addressing educational disadvantage in Ireland north and south. Special thanks to Conor Galvin for acting as discussant. #esai24

⁦Stranmillis University College⁩ students and ⁦Anita Gracie⁩ enjoyed a wonderful day visiting ⁦Fields of Life⁩ schools, Nyspeya and St Stephen’s PS outside Gulu, Northern Uganda. We were made extremely welcome and thoroughly enjoyed singing dancing and meeting staff and students.

⁦Stranmillis University College⁩ Uganda team arrived safely and enjoyed a wonderful first day at the equator. Excited for all that is still to come.

As part of #NoSmokingMonth the College was delighted to welcome Northern Ireland Health Minister, Robin Swann, to the campus today, where he joined Cancer Focus Northern Ireland's Health Improvement Manager, Naomi Thomson, to deliver a lecture to our Physical Education and Sport students on