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The Future of Teaching &  Learning

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The Oxford Round Table on the Future of Teaching & Learning brings together educators, researchers, school and university leaders, policymakers, and other professionals to explore how education is changing from early childhood through higher education.

New technologies, changing student needs, teacher shortages, evolving workforce expectations, and growing concerns about access, wellbeing, and educational quality are reshaping teaching and learning at every level. This Round Table provides a setting for participants to examine these changes, share research and professional experience, and consider practical approaches that can strengthen education.

The programme explores a broad range of current and emerging issues, including artificial intelligence and educational technology, curriculum and assessment, student engagement, inclusive education, teacher preparation and retention, educational leadership, mental health and wellbeing, and preparation for further study and employment. By bringing together participants from early childhood settings, primary and secondary schools, colleges, and universities, the Round Table encourages collaboration across educational sectors that too often operate separately.

Oxford provides an especially meaningful setting for these conversations. From the education of young children to advanced university study, participants will consider how institutions can respond to change while preserving the relationships, intellectual curiosity, creativity, and sense of purpose that make learning meaningful. The Round Table is open to participants from different disciplines, professions, countries, and educational systems.

Why Attend?

Why Attend

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Education is being transformed at every level—from early childhood classrooms and secondary schools to colleges and universities. The Oxford Round Table provides an opportunity to step outside your usual educational setting, examine the challenges affecting learners and educators, and discover how colleagues in other countries and sectors are responding.

The Round Table brings together participants from across the educational journey, creating conversations that rarely happen within a single conference. Early childhood specialists can exchange ideas with school leaders, university faculty can learn from classroom practitioners, and policymakers can hear directly from those working with students. Together, participants will consider practical, evidence-informed ways to improve learning and teaching.

Present your Research

Share your research, educational programme, classroom innovation, policy analysis, institutional initiative, or professional experience with an international audience.

Engage in Global Dialogue

Take part in thoughtful conversations with educators, researchers, administrators, and policymakers working across different educational levels and systems.
 

Build an International Network

Develop valuable academic and professional relationships with participants from early childhood, primary, secondary, and higher education.

Explore Education Across Borders

Learn how educational institutions and systems around the world are addressing shared challenges in teaching, learning, leadership, access, and student success.

Who Should Attend

Who Should Attend?

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Whether you work with young children, school-age learners, university students, or the educators who teach them, this Round Table offers an opportunity to share research, practical experience, innovative approaches, and ideas for the future.

Participants may present research, case studies, policy analysis, innovative programmes, or professional experiences. A paper is not required to attend. Delegates are welcome to listen, ask questions, and participate fully in the discussion.

Participants may include:

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  • Early childhood educators and directors

  • Primary and elementary school educators

  • Secondary and high school teachers

  • School principals and administrators

  • Development leaders

  • College and university faculty

  • Deans, provosts, and higher education leaders

  • Education researchers and scholars

  • Curriculum and instructional specialists

  • Teacher educators and professionals

  • Education policymakers and government officials

  • Educational-technology professionals

  • Graduate students and emerging researchers

  • Superintendents

  • School Board Officials​

  • ​Psychologists

A paper or presentation is not required to attend. Participants are encouraged to contribute their professional experience and perspectives to the discussions, whether attending as a presenter or as a non-presenting delegate.

How to Participate

How will you Participate?

Present your Research

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Share your research, classroom innovation, educational programme, case study, policy analysis, institutional initiative, or professional experience with an international audience.

Presentations may address any stage of education—from early childhood and primary education through secondary school and higher education.

A completed paper is not required to present.

Attend & Join the Discussion

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No presentation or paper is required.

 

Attend the Round Table sessions, ask questions, exchange ideas, and share your professional knowledge and experience with educators and education leaders from around the world.

Non-presenting delegates are welcomed as full participants in the discussion.

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Topics

Teaching & Learning Suggested Topics

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Early Childhood Education & Early Learning

Early childhood development and learning

School readiness and transitions to primary education

Play-based and inquiry-based learning

Early literacy, language and numeracy

Social-emotional development and well-being

Quality and access in early childhood programs

Family engagement and home-school partnerships

Early childhood policy, funding and reform

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The Future of Teaching & the Education Workforce

Teacher recruitment and retention

Educator shortages and workforce sustainability

Teacher compensation and professional status

Changing expectations of the teaching profession

Teacher well-being, burnout and resilience

Career pathways and professional advancement

Preparing educators for changing student needs

Building and sustaining a diverse education workforce

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Teacher Preparation & Professional Learning

 

Rethinking teacher education

University-school partnerships

Clinical practice, internships and residencies

Mentoring and induction for new educators

Professional development and lifelong learning

Preparing early childhood educators

Alternative pathways into teaching

Measuring teacher effectiveness and preparation quality

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Artificial Intelligence & the Changing Classroom

 

Generative AI in teaching and learning

AI literacy for educators and students

Preparing teachers to work with AI

Academic integrity in the age of AI

Personalized and adaptive learning

Ethical and responsible uses of educational AI

Digital equity and access

The changing role of the teacher in AI-enabled education

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Student Learning, Development & Well-Being

 

Student engagement and motivation

Mental health and emotional well-being

Belonging, relationships and school connectedness

Trauma-informed educational practice

Developmentally appropriate teaching

Supporting the whole child and whole learner

Attendance, disengagement and re-engagement

Student voice, agency and participation

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Equity, Inclusion & Educational Opportunity

 

Closing opportunity and achievement gaps

Inclusive education and universal design for learning

Special education and additional learning needs

Socioeconomic inequality and educational access

Culturally responsive teaching and learning

Multilingual learners and language education

Gender and educational opportunity

Rural, remote and underserved communities

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Leadership, Policy & the Future of Education

 

Educational leadership in changing environments

Policy reform and its impact on teaching and learning

School and university governance

Funding, resources and educational opportunity

Leading organizational and cultural change

Evidence-informed policy and decision-making

Accountability, standards and educational quality

International and comparative education policy

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Higher Education in Transition

 

The changing purpose and value of higher education

College access, affordability and student success

Teaching innovation in universities

Faculty roles and the changing academic profession

Enrollment, retention and completion

Workforce preparation and employability

Online, hybrid and flexible higher education

The future of colleges, universities and academic programs

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Innovation, Curriculum & the Future of Learning

 

Rethinking curriculum for a changing world

Innovative approaches to teaching and learning

Assessment beyond traditional testing

Project-, problem- and experiential learning

Creativity, critical thinking and collaboration

Technology-enhanced learning

Interdisciplinary and cross-curricular education

Preparing learners for an uncertain future

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College

Harris Manchester College

Experience Oxford at Harris Manchester College!

For those who want to experience more than the symposium itself, our Immersive Oxford Experience at Harris Manchester College offers an extraordinary opportunity to become part of college life during your time in Oxford.

Located in the heart of the University of Oxford, Harris Manchester College combines centuries of academic tradition with the warmth and intimacy of a close-knit Oxford college. Participants have the opportunity to stay within the college, dine together, walk its historic corridors and courtyards, and experience Oxford in a way that simply cannot be replicated by staying in a hotel.

The immersive experience is designed to extend the conversations and connections of the symposium beyond the meeting room. Breakfasts become opportunities to continue discussions with colleagues from around the world, evenings are shared over college dinners, and there is time to enjoy Oxford as part of an international academic community.

It is one of the most memorable aspects of participating in an Oxford Symposium: not simply visiting Oxford, but experiencing what it feels like to live, dine, learn, and exchange ideas within an Oxford college.

Places within the college are limited, making the Immersive Oxford Experience a distinctive addition to your time at the Symposium.

Symposium Registration

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One Experience. Every Registration.

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  • Lunches in Medieval Dining Hall on Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday

  • Tea/Coffee/Biscuit Breaks during meetings

  • Optional Closing Dinner

  • Conference Proceedings

  • Certificate of Participation

  • Printed Program

  • Access to Published Papers

  • Peer-Reviewed Journal to submit your paper

  • Access to all Sessions

  • Keynote Address

  • Presentation Slot if Abstract is Accepted

  • Q&A and Discussions

  • Harris Manchester College grounds

  • Optional Walking Tour of Oxford

Delegate
Registration

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£775

Alumni
Registration

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£655

Student
Registration

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£595

Unique Add On Experience

The Immersive Oxford Experience 

An Optional Residential Experience at Harris Manchester College  

£1110

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The best way to visit Oxford-living and dining in historic college surroundings with meals and exclusive experiences included.

Three nights' accommodation at Harris Manchester College · Mon | Tue | Wed


Full English breakfasts in the medieval dining hall · Tue | Wed | Thu


Three-course dinners in the medieval dining hall · Mon | Wed


Formal Certificate Ceremony

DOES NOT INCLUDE SYMPOSIUM REGISTRATION

Iconic Bodleian Library reading room at the University of Oxford, showcasing scholarly pur

Important Dates

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Dates of Symposium
 

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22-24 March 2027

Abstract
Due

 

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31 January 2027

Advanced Registration Discount £50

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30 November 2026

Important Dates
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