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Partnerships? Stop! Think! What first pops up in your mind at the idea of partnerships in education? What experiences prompted your first thoughts? Where did they come from and what do they mean? Prominent in the descriptions of partnerships in international education are activities and relationships that involve global actors such as international donors and […]

We’ve had a long wait for the BAICE Conference at Edinburgh after BAICE 2020 was cancelled due to the pandemic. But BAICE 2022 is coming back with style and lots of innovative ideas to make the conference more diverse, inclusive and inspiring than ever. BAICE has a tradition of surprising audiences through its annual Presidential […]

Storytelling is gaining popularity as a methodology in the field of international education and development. It is seen to offer an antidote to modernist, big-data research that positions people at the centre of interventions as homogenous and, instead, connect the field with ‘real’ versions of people. Advocates claim that it is inclusive, flattens hierarchies of […]

Earlier this year, the student-run Quantitative Methods Group at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge began discussing the implications of power, positionality and bias in quantitative research. While qualitative researchers have undertaken important work over the past decades to address these implications, we felt that work by quantitative researchers hasn’t benefitted from that kind […]

“I am sorry, but due to university ethics guidelines, I am unable to help you.” I heard myself repeat the same words again and again to internally displaced Iraqis who participated in my dissertation research on navigational access to education. They would say, we need money, we need food, we need secure housing, we need […]

From October 2019 to September 2020, I was at home in Malaysia conducting my yearlong PhD fieldwork. Now, having safely completed this component of the PhD and returned to the University of Oxford amidst a pandemic that marches on, I reflect on turbulent moments from the field. This reflection centres on the second leg of […]

Following what UNESCO and World Bank call the “learning crisis”, global educational reform efforts have converged on improving the quality of education. One popular narrative is on shifting away from “teacher-centered” – a label associated with various negative connotations – towards “learner-centered” approaches that value students’ active participation in learning. This is commonly desired to […]

It is poignant that Compare’s juncture of a half century and subsequent opportunity for contemplation of past, present and future came in a year in which academics were forced to pause and reflect on so many other levels: the uncertainties of Brexit and its implications for travel, funding and collaboration

Since 2005, BAICE has supported a writing-for-publication programme to enhance the reach and quality of its journal Compare.  Set up by Prof Anna Robinson Pant as former co-editor of Compare (2005 – 2010), Prof. Theresa Lillis (Open University) and Dr. Anna Magyar (University of East Anglia), the programme has expanded and evolved over the years, […]