Learning for Life: Exploring Core Values

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Character and Public Policy: Educating for an Ethical Life

August 16, 2012

The Jubilee Centre for Character and Values are delighted to announce details for its inaugural conference on 14th and 15th December 2012 at the University of Birmingham. Titled ‘Character and Public Policy: Educating for an Ethical Life, the broad theme … Learn more →

Launch of the Jubilee Centre for Character and Values

August 16, 2012

The Jubilee Centre for Character and Values was launched on 16th May at the House of Lords. The Centre is a multi-million pound investment by the John Templeton Foundation, based at the University of Birmingham and Directed by Prof. James … Learn more →

The Priestley Lecture – ‘Education for Survival or Success’

December 1, 2011

Chairman of the Learning for Life Advisory Board, Lord Watson of Richmond will be giving the Raymond Priestley lecture at the School of Education, University of Birmingham on Thursday 8th December 2011 under the title ‘Education for Survival or Success‘. … Learn more →

The riots, values and the role of education

August 19, 2011

Last week thousands of young people spontaneously rioted in a number of English cities for no apparent reason. In the aftermarth of the riots there have been many calls for the renewal of public and private virtues. We appear to … Learn more →

Windsor Castle Consultation on Character

November 19, 2010

On Tuesday 16th and Wednesday 17th November, Learning for Life staged another dissemination consultation on Character, based around Prof. James Arthur’s text ‘Of Good Character’, at St. George’s House, Windsor Castle. With 30 delegates present, representing a varied and diverse … Learn more →

Our Vision

The vision of Learning for Life is to build and strengthen characterin the contexts of the family, education and employment through nationalevidence based research, developmental work and delivery of charactereducation. We seek to make a real difference to the lives and characterdevelopment of both learners and the professionals who support them, incharacter formation. We seek to make an impact based on high qualityresearch work, which provides a sound base for development anddissemination for policy and practice.

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