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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...

Professor Tom Harrison 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...

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...

The Jubilee Centre saw in the new year in its usual fashion, welcoming over 100 attendees from over 20 countries to Oriel College, Oxford, for its annual conference. The theme of 2026’s...

Professor Arthur met Mario Delgado Corrillo, the Secretary of Public Education for Mexico on 7th November together with his team to discuss character education. The Minister is considering adding character education to...

The TWCF Global Innovations for Character Development (GICD) initiative, supported by the Jubilee Centre, has brought together projects exploring the link between character and health in diverse global contexts. By examining these...

Professor James Arthur and Professor Andrew Peterson gave keynote lectures at the first Australian Character Education Summit Conference in Sydney from 13th – 14th October 2025 to a gathering of nearly 600...