“The UCL Centre for Holocaust Education would like to congratulate Adjaye Associates and Ron Arad Architects for being selected as the winning design team to develop the UK Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre. This is a hugely significant and prestigious enterprise which has the potential both to honour the victims of the Holocaust and to […]
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The start of the academic year provides an excellent opportunity to talk about Holocaust education in your school and in terms of your continued professional development, through Appraisal and the Performance Management system. The annual Appraisal conversations you may have with line management or senior leaders can enable you to have your Holocaust education work […]
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Unpacking the Holocaust is a full day CPD which is free to teachers. It will challenge and enhance your thinking and teaching about the Holocaust. It also offers vital resources and lesson ideas to stimulate students’ knowledge in, and curiosity for an area of immense historical and ethical interest. The day runs from 8.30am – […]
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Schools needed for our Impact study We are conducting research to look at the impact of Holocaust education and are seeking control schools to participate. That is, schools whose teachers have not attended the UCL (IOE) Centre for Holocaust Education CPD programmes. The research would involve students in Key Stage 3 completing two surveys: one […]
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Torpoint Community College are currently working with us as a UCL Beacon School: our first partner in this project to be based in Cornwall. Charlotte Lane, Lead Teacher in the college describes the beneficial effect on students, and across the curriculum: “Since being awarded our UCL Beacon School in Holocaust Education status last year, we […]
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The Centre has developed hugely beneficial relationships with partnership schools through its Beacon Schools programme. Our Beacon Schools worked this year to create a diverse and innovative range of commemorative activities for Holocaust Memorial Day around the theme of ‘how can life go on?‘ Read on for UCL Beacon Schools’ responses to Holocaust Memorial Day […]
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This year Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) fell on 27 January – 72 years after the liberation of Auschwitz. To mark this important anniversary UCL’s Centre for Holocaust Education has hosted a Round Table Discussion between its staff and Holocaust survivors Ben Helfgott and Mala Tribich. We were also joined by the leading Holocaust historian Professor Yehuda Bauer […]
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We are thrilled that Dr Nicola Wetherall has been awarded an MBE in the New Year Honours 2017. Dr Wetherall is a key member of the Centre for Holocaust Education and also works part-time at the Royal Wootton Bassett Academy (RWBA) in Wiltshire. Her MBE recognises her services to Holocaust Education, Genocide Prevention and Human […]
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@UCL_Holocaust: RT: Centre colleagues @hmccord78 @soper_mr sat down (prior to COVID-19 restrictions & cancellation of visits) to reflec… https://t.co/vlvkSEEmnq
@UCL_Holocaust: RT: In 2016 our student research found only 15.2% of respondents recognised Bergen-Belsen as connected to the Holocaust… https://t.co/YD7TW3IuDv
@UCL_Holocaust: RT: We recognise schools, teachers & SLT are wrestling unprecedented issues at school & at home, so we're extending the… https://t.co/j2dXB8OOtl