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Artificial intelligence (AI) might be good for advocates of character education. For many readers, this will feel like a provocative claim. I am not suggesting that AI is necessarily good for character...
Professor Tom Harrison and Rachael Bushby The Importance of Praxis We have learnt, from our time working in universities, that academics love a good debate. This is a vital aspect of the role: to challenge assumptions, ask difficult questions,...
This article is about practical wisdom, virtue, and the problem with modern advice about living well. We are often told to live by our values. Therapists ask clients to clarify them. Coaches...
As with many universities, the motto of the University of Birmingham is in Latin: per ardua ad alta. Adopted as part of the university’s original coat of arms 125 years ago, it...
The Centre is now accepting proposals for its 15th annual conference, ‘Character and Vocation’. The multidisciplinary conference will take place between the 6th – 8th January 2027 at Oriel and Magdalen Colleges,...
Building on the Centre’s recent work on character and sport, and held in partnership with Birmingham City Football Club Foundation, the Jubilee Centre hosted a conference on Character-based Coaching in Sport at...
Before we can determine how to educate effectively in a rapidly changing world, we must first be clear about what it is that those of us working in universities are actually seeking...
The Centre has launched the Educating Character Through Sport: Principles and Practices of a Virtues-Based Framework which sets out the place of character in sport and how character might be developed through...
The Global Character Alliance (GCA) was launched on the 8th January at the Jubilee Centre’s Annual Conference. Funded by the Templeton World Charity Foundation and Templeton Religion Trust, the GCA is an...