News
The impact of COVID-19 on SML College
The following is an extract from the last chapter of ‘Self Managed Learning and the New Educational Paradigm’ by Dr Ian Cunningham. It is 29 March 2020 and we were in the early stages in England of the coronavirus or Covid-19 crisis. Schools have been closed... read more »
President’s Lecture
Last year saw the first President’s lecture given by Professor Rose Luckin of UCL Institute of Education. As a world-renowned expert on AI in education her lecture was a great success with many complimentary remarks about its value. We had hope to have a... read more »
University of Brighton Collaboration
We have had a longstanding relationship with the University of Brighton. As well as eight evaluation research studies that their students have carried out with us we have recently commissioned research from a Master’s student in Community Psychology. Her research was on the local... read more »
Work experience
Onca Gallery In February , one of our students went on a work experience day to ONCA Gallery in Brighton. Rosy is interested in art history and philosophy and wanted to explore the possibility of managing a gallery in the future and find out what... read more »
The Brighton and Shanghai Educational Partnership
Helping Chinese young people to get a real education The following is a press release that the College issued earlier this year. “Dr Ian Cunningham of Brighton’s Self Managed Learning College argues that: “It’s madness that the UK Government wants to copy the Shanghai schooling model –... read more »
International links
As well as our link to China we continue to maintain a range of international contacts. Ian Cunningham met with Australian colleagues in Sydney in February and they reported on the enthusiasm for SML in their primary school. We continue to support the International Democratic... read more »
Visitors to the College
We continue to welcome visitors who are interested in our work. We take seriously our charitable status to develop educational practice and to support parents and others. We have visits from other community organisations as well as schools (where they are looking for alternatives... read more »
Work experience
We are indebted to organisations in the city and to parents for arranging week-long work experience in areas such as construction, broadcasting and events organising. We believe that gaining work experience as part of their learning is invaluable for our students. read more »
University of Sussex collaboration
As part of our collaboration with the Informatics Department at the University of Sussex we have had groups of students from their Masters degree working with our students. They have entered into the spirit of SML by identifying what our students are interested in... read more »