New Centre for Character opens in Pamplona
14th February 2023Character Educarion Centre Director James Arthur was honoured to be the first guest to give a series of seminars at the new Centre for Character Education and Professional Ethics at the University of Navarra on 13th February 2023 and at the Madrid campus on 14th February 2023. Whilst there, Professor Arthur also met […]
Director Appointed 15th CJ Koh Professor
16th February 2023Academic Professor James Arthur has accepted an invitation to become the 15th Koh Professor at the National Institute of Education (NIE), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, under the CJ Koh Professorship in Education programme. Professor Arthur joins previous CJ Koh distinguished professors, including: Marilyn Cochran-Smith from Boston College (in 2006), Robin Alexander from […]
Centre Director Attends Launch of New Centre for Character in Madrid
16th February 2023Virtue Education On the 15th February 2023, a new Centre for Education in Virtues and Values was launched at the University of Francisco Victoria, Spain. Professor Arthur was invited to the occasion to deliver the opening address. The website for the new centre can be found here. Earlier this year, the Jubilee Centre […]
Centre Staff Visit Harvard University’s Flourishing Program
6th March 2023flourishing, A team from the Jubilee Centre met with Professor Tyler VanderWeele, Director of the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University. During the visit, Kristjan Kristjansson delivered a presentation on phronesis and flourishing. The meeting was deemed extremely positive with exciting ideas being shared from both sides and discussions into future collaborations being […]
Centre Staff Visit Boston College
6th March 2023Academic Professor Arthur, Professor Kristjansson, Dr. Gulliford, Michael Fullard and Paul Watts visited Boston College on Tuesday 21st February to present a series of talks on Character and Virtues to hundreds of staff and students in the prestigious Gasson Hall. This was followed by discussions and seminars with Boston College’s Aristotelian Lab and the […]
Lee Rogerson MBE 1969-2023
6th March 2023Jubilee Centre Lee Rogerson MBE, a great friend and supporter of the Jubilee Centre, sadly passed away on Saturday 25th of February 2023, following a short and unexpected illness. Lee was 53 years old. Lee was a passionate, creative and talented educator and filmmaker, and was awarded an MBE in 2003 for his […]
Centre Hosts Outstanding Schools: Ofsted, School Improvement and Character Education Conference
13th March 2023Conference On 3rd March 2023, over 170 school leaders and teachers, from across the UK, attended the Outstanding Schools conference held at the University of Birmingham. The conference focused on how character education can contribute to school improvement and meet the longer-term needs of pupils. The Centre was delighted to welcome former Secretary of […]
Director Meets with Leader of Coalition for Life Transformative Education
13th March 2023Character Education Professor Arthur met with Professor Richard Miller, renowned Emeritus President of Olin College of Engineering and leader and founder of the Coalition for Life Transformative Education (CLTE)in Boston on 23rd February 20236. The meeting involved discussions on how character and virtues could become part of this well-respected University wide network. Dr. Jim […]
Centre Staff Visit Abigail Adams Institute
13th March 2023Academic The Abigail Adams Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts recently hosted a visit from the Centre staff in February 2023. The team met with the Director, Dr. Danilo Petranovich and former Jubilee Centre Teaching Fellow Dr. Karen Bohlin, who is also a Senior Fellow of the Abigail Adams Institute. Whilst visiting, the team discussed the work […]
Outstanding Schools: Character education and School Improvement
15th March 2023Character Education The Jubilee Centre’s latest publication – Outstanding Schools: Character Education and School Improvement – draws on research undertaken by the Centre to show how character education can underpin the four criteria in the Ofsted school inspection framework (quality of education, behaviour and attitudes, personal development and leadership and management). Offering schools […]