The UCL Centre for Holocaust Education will be closed from 2pm on 23rd December 2015 and will reopen on Monday 4th January. The Team would like to wish you all a wonderful festive break!

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Powerful teaching and learning materials exploring the choices and decisions of perpetrators, bystanders and rescuers are available to secondary teachers participating in our free ‘Being human?’. Twilight CPD: Thursday 21 January, 4pm.

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‘I didn’t stop being racist because of (learning about) Holocaust […] I’ve always not been racist.’ (Ella, Year 12 student, Peterborough). In popular, political and even educational discourse, it has become a commonplace to assert that it is crucially important for young people to learn about the Holocaust as an intervention against racism and prejudice […]

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It has been an exciting few months at the Centre with three new members of staff joining the Team! Tom Haward joined our Teaching Team in September. He has a background in History teaching, having trained at Bath University, and until the summer of this year was Director of Learning at Oriel High School, a state comprehensive school in Sussex. […]

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We are excited to announce that, in recognition of its “world leading contribution to the policy and practice of education and innovative social research”, the IOE has been awarded a Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education. We are delighted that the work of the Centre contributed to the Institute’s bid for the prize. The […]

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Our submission As we reported in our eNews last month, the Parliamentary Education Select Committee recently announced an inquiry into Holocaust education.  They invited submissions on a range of issues including the quality of teaching of the Holocaust, the impact of teaching the Holocaust on young people and training for teachers in Holocaust education. It […]

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The Holocaust in the Curriculum Masters Module We are excited to offer our free fully accredited MA Module again in 2016. Places are free to those who meet our entry criteria. If you would like to join us and learn even more about teaching the Holocaust and challenge yourself to studying at post-graduate level – apply […]

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On 26th October 2015, the UCL Centre for Holocaust Education will officially launch its most significant piece of research to date. Drawing on contributions from more than 8,000 11-18 years olds across all year groups of English secondary schools, the report into what young people today know and understand about the Holocaust is the world’s […]

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We are looking for a passionate and experienced researcher to join us for our new and upcoming projects. These are likely to examine further how individuals make meaning of and from the Holocaust in relation to, for example: different classroom and disciplinary contexts wider understandings and/or experiences of racism(s) and antisemitism(s) personal biography Our research […]

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