10th December 2021Blog This month's Character Educator in Focus is Charlotte Tibbs. Charlotte is an Assistant Principal at Springwest Academy – a mixed comprehensive school serving the local community of Feltham in Hounslow. In this blog, Charlotte describes character education at Springwest, and how this has developed. The full piece

13th December 2021Events In the second in a series of webinars considering ‘Civic Virtue and the Common Good’, the Jubilee Centre for Character and Virtues will continue these discussions which seek to capitalise on a renewed, cross-party focus on how to repair and sustain flourishing communities and how this renewed focus might form

14th December 2021Centre News A Member of Parliament since 2001, Jon Cruddas MP represents Dagenham and Rainham in East London. Between 2012 and 2015 he served as the Labour Party’s Policy Coordinator. Before entering politics, Professor Cruddas completed a PhD in Industrial and Business Studies at the University of Warwick

15th December 2021Blog The Centre’s final ‘Character in the Corpus’ instalment is a special Christmas edition. Rather than selecting a single virtue for focus, December’s blog and classroom resources explore Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol to examine those virtues that make up what the author called his ‘Carol Philosophy’: kindness,

17th January 2022Resources Co-ordinated by the University of Oxford and with the support of more than 50 partner institutions, Portugal-UK 650 brings together researchers, education practitioners, cultural groups, and social activities across both countries. Its aim is to celebrate 650 years of the Treaty of Tagilde (10th July 2022) and 650 years of

19th January 2022Events The Jubilee Centre has been awarded a prestigious Nuffield Foundation grant to evaluate the Newswise media literacy programme over the next two years. The Centre will lead the study, working in partnership with the Guardian Foundation, National Literacy Trust and PSHE Association. Newswise, run by the Guardian Foundation,

19th January 2022Events Civic Virtues The second in a series of webinars considering Civic Virtue and the Common Good, Civic Virtue, Service and The Voluntary Spirit welcomed Labour Member of Parliament for Bethnal Green and Bow, Rushanara Ali, Danny Kruger, the Conservative Member of Parliament for Devizes, and Helen Goulden, Chief

19th January 2022Centre News Marking the beginning of the Jubilee Centre’s 10th anniversary year, on 7th January 2022 Director Professor James Arthur and special guest Heather Templeton Dill, President of the John Templeton Foundation, were joined by those who were due to be in attendance at the Centre’s now delayed 10th annual conference for the premiere of a

11th February 2022Events Higher Education On 10th and 11th February, the Jubilee Centre and the Oxford Character Project hosted a Consultation on Cultivating Character in the University: Implications for Policy and Practice’ at Ditchley Park, Oxfordshire. The Consultation brought together stakeholders from across the Universities sector, including senior leaders, academics, university

7th March 2022Awards Dr. Kristian Guttesen has recently completed his PhD studies at the Jubilee Centre, supervised by Professor Kristján Kristjánsson and Dr. Tom Harrison. Kristian Guttesen, born 1974 in Denmark, has lived most of his life in Iceland, where he has worked as a teacher, programmer, translator and writer.