We are very excited to announce and introduce the keynote speakers for BAICE 2022. Professor Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang Professor Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang is our guest keynote speaker and will be opening our conference with a keynote called “Strategic Approaches to Building and Maintaining Partnerships in Education”. Professor Mario Novelli Professor Mario Novelli is the BAICE President and will be closing the conference with a keynote called “Politics, Power and Partnerships:…
We would like to share an update with the international and comparative education community about the registration fees for the BAICE 2022 conference. We acknowledge that these are higher than they have been in previous years, and we would like to explain this. First, BAICE is a non-profit organisation, and the BAICE conference is a non-profit event. This means that each biennial conference is self-funded, i.e. all conference costs are covered by registration fees. Our fees this year are a…
The School of Education at the University of Bristol is seeking to appoint a Senior Research Associate to participate in a UKRI-funded network plus entitled Transforming Education for Sustainable Futures (TESF) which has partners in the UK, Netherlands, India, Rwanda, Somalia/ Somaliland and South Africa. TESF aims to develop understanding of how education systems can be transformed to support sustainable livelihoods, sustainable cities and climate action. The closing date for applications is the 15th of May, 2022. See the link…
The British Association for International and Comparative Education (BAICE) seeks to appoint an editor for Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education. Expression of interest are invited from suitable candidates. BAICE BAICE is an association which promotes research, teaching, policy and development in all aspects of international and comparative education. BAICE is the British affiliate of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES) but membership is open to all interested in international and comparative education, regardless of nationality…
Call for Manuscript Proposals Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education Special Issue on Coloniality and Whiteness in the Academy: Towards Decolonial Futures Guest Editors: Thushari Welikala, St George’s, University of London, UK Carola Boehm, Staffordshire University, UK This special issue aims to contribute to the knowledge and understanding about the complexities, paradoxes, tensions, and possibilities of designing decolonial futures in higher education. Focusing on a timely and under-theorised area in higher education, it invites contributors and readers to critically…
Compare is a leading journal of international and comparative education, publishing eight issues a year of high quality articles on diverse issues of educational policy and practice around the world. It is the official journal of the British Association of International and Comparative Education (BAICE), which works to support activities of research, teaching and collaboration in the field. In order to maintain its significant global standing, one of Compare’s missions is to develop the diversity of its authorship, and support…
Compare is seeking to appoint four new members to join its Editorial Board (EB) and invites applications from interested scholars who have relevant expertise in the field of international and comparative education. The EB meets three times during the year, is chaired by the Chair of BAICE and acts in an advisory capacity for Compare’s editorial team, currently Catherine Montgomery, Sheila Trahar and Oscar Valiente. For example, we seek regular advice from EB members regarding the aims and scope of the…
2x Part-time ethnographer roles on an exciting, innovative research project The Ibali Network is a collective of researchers from the UK, Nigeria and South Africa. In January we began a two-year UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded study with the title: Ibali: storying new discourses of educational inclusion/exclusion in the UK, Nigeria and South Africa. The research is focusing on the commonalities and differences of how inclusion and exclusion are experienced across education systems in these three countries….
Dr Tejendra Pherali, BAICE Chair and Dr Alison Buckler, BAICE Vice-Chair Neither of us can remember a BAICE conference or AGM where Professor Bown was not present. Despite being in her late 80s when we joined the BAICE Executive Committee, she was relentlessly interested in and involved in the work of the Association. She commanded attention when she spoke – most memorably for us when she sang the praises of the then BAICE President Professor Anna Robinson-Pant’s creative and interactive…
The British Association for International and Comparative Education (BAICE) Student Committee warmly welcomes your submissions to our 2022 Early Career conference, ‘Potential and challenges in education in today’s world’. The conference will take place as a virtual event on the 29th January 2022. We invite submissions from postgraduate students, researchers and practitioners engaged with education research. The deadline for submission is the 10th December 2021, 12 midnight (GMT). Submissions are invited on any research topic concerned with the Potential and…