Education partnerships

Partner schools host both undergraduate and postgraduate placements of varying durations. Placements are offered directly by the school via our school portal or we can introduce a school to a School Partnership Hub, sharing student support with a group of local partner schools.

• Influence and understand how the programmes work and strengthen communication with a network of student teachers to increase opportunities for ECT recruitment.
• Work with academic teams and students sharing professional education themes in the curriculum, either at the university or at your school premises, through Intensive Training and Practice (ITAP), or otherwise. Your school may have a particular focus or expertise that could greatly benefit programme delivery, enhancing the student experience.
• Participate on occasions in the selection process during the student application period with other school colleagues to interview prospective students to the PGCE courses.
• Join the Partnership Management Group (PMG), the steering forum for the PGCE programmes, chaired by the Director of ITE and led by senior colleagues from our partnership schools. The PMG informs the partnership, ensuring programme responsiveness to changing national policy and regional issues influencing teacher and school education. It enables rigorous quality assurance and keeps pupil progress and school improvement imperatives at the heart of our ITE provision.

The Education Department are proud to lead three departmental research groups: Education, Identities and Society; Media, Arts and Creative Education (MACE); STEM Education. These research groups are involved in many activities, details of which can be found here: Education research and Doctoral programmes | Brunel University of London.

We'd be delighted for you to join our online research group seminars which are held across the academic year, details below and here:

Department of Education seminar series 2025-26

Mentor Development is a key focus of the university school partnership network and benefits all parties involved. Regular free sessions are held throughout the year. Bookings for all related events can be made via the School Placement Portal. Broader details about mentoring and The National Mentor Standards can be found at the School Experience and Mentor Development tab.

Please email any Job alerts to academic-placements@brunel.ac.uk and we will circulate this to our students.  

All our partner schools have access to the school placement portal as account holders and communications are channelled here for the convenience of schools. All of the above activities are easily accessible on the school portal. In turn, confirmed student placements with contact details of both student teachers and supporting university staff can be viewed here.

The Department of Education has established rapport with a group of dedicated alternative educational settings provisions and organisations around London. Student teachers are offered the opportunity to gain experience in these settings as part of their programme, which have previously included EYFS, Primary Schools, Secondary Schools, Pupil Referral Units, young offenders’ institutions, and Special Schools. We welcome organisations interested in partnering with us for these experiences.