Jubilee Centre’s Fourth ‘Framework in Action’ Project Launched
13th December 2022Schools The Jubilee Centre has partnered with five schools to showcase how the Award Winning Framework for Character Education in Schools has been used as a source of inspiration in a school setting. To demonstrate how character sought can be developed through enrichment, University of Birmingham School have produced a set of resources including a […]
Character and Virtues in Professional Practice
13th January 2023Conference The Jubilee Centre's 11th annual conference, Character and Virtues in Professional Practice, brought together 120 experts from a range of disciplines for three days of keynote and seminar sessions at Oriel College, Oxford, between 5th and 7th January 2023. The conference was successful in its attempts to bring together an ever-increasing interest in wisdom […]
Centre Hosts Consultation on Embedding Civic Character in Schools
16th January 2023Civic Virtues On 12th and 13th January 2023, the Jubilee Centre hosted a Consultation on Embedding Civic Character in Schools at St. George’s House, Windsor Castle. The Consultation brought together school leaders, NGO leaders and university academics to discuss how schools do and can embed civic character as part of their wider […]
Jubilee Centre’s Fifth ‘Framework in Action’ Project Launched
17th January 2023Schools Character The Jubilee Centre has partnered with five schools to showcase how the award winning Framework for Character Education in Schools has been used as a source of inspiration in a school setting. Northampton Academy has designed a Student Character Digital Passport, which is also available as an online app, to support students […]
Jubilee Centre Framework Translated into Spanish
17th January 2023Character Education The Jubilee Centre’s award-winning Framework for Character Education in Schools has been translated into Spanish. Since it was first published in 2013, the Framework has set out the Centre's position on character education, what it is, and why it is important whilst also calling for all schools to make explicit how […]
The ECVA Conference Call for Papers
17th January 2023Conferences The European Character and Virtue association has announced a call for papers for its upcoming conference entitled Character and Virtue Education in Europe: Challenges and Opportunities, taking place at Universidad Francesco de Vitoria, 28th – 30th June 2023. Established by the Jubilee Centre in 2022, ECVA offers a forum for promoting research, training and […]
Higher Education Framework Spanish Translation Available
17th January 2023Character Education Character Education in Universities: A Framework for Flourishing has been translated by the Civic Humanism Center for Character and Professional Ethics at the University of Navarra, Spain. You can download a copy of the Spanish translation of the Framework, that was originally created by the Jubilee Centre with The Oxford […]
Centre Director Contributes to Committee on Standards in Public Life Review
26th January 2023Citizenship In January 2022 Professor James Arthur was invited to meet with the Committee on Standards in Public Life to help shape thinking on the scope of the review of professional ethics the Committee was conducting. The final report has now been published called Leading in Practice that can be found here.
Deputy Director Presents at the Launch of the Spanish Translation of Higher Education Framework
14th February 2023Higher Education The Institute for Culture and Society at the University of Navarre launched the Spanish translation of the Jubilee Centre’s Character Education in Universities: A Framework for Flourishing on 30th January 2023 (see the Spanish translation here). The launch event, which was held both in person and online, saw over 130 […]
Centre Welcomes Maria Silvia Vaccarezza and Michel Croce
14th February 2023Academic Dr. Maria Silvia Vaccarezza and Dr. Michel Croce from the Aretai Centre on Virtues, University of Genoa, Italy, visited the Jubilee Centre from 6th – 10th February 2023. During their visit, they discussed various aspects of the Centre’s work with staff and delivered a presentation about their model of phronesis and […]