Kenneth King’s 2015 BAICE Presidential Address has been published on the BAICE website. The address was given at the UKFIET Conference held in Oxford. A revised copy of the address will appear in Compare, however, there previous link is to Professor King’s draft address.
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2016 BAICE Conference at Nottingham
16/09/2015 |
By BAICE
The 2016 BAICE Conference will be 12-14 September 2016 at the University of Nottingham. The Conference theme will be ‘Achieving and Sustaining Quality Learning’. How can diverse stakeholders work together to improve the quality of learning? What impact do global agendas have, positively or negatively, on practices within education systems and in the classroom? How can education work as a multi-scalar ecosystem to improve the quality of learning? Which case-studies can help us shed light on the possibilities and challenges involved in improving education…
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BAICE co-hosts GMR Launch
28/07/2015 |
By BAICE
BAICE partnered with The Forum to host the Education for All (EFA) Global Monitoring Report launch on June 10, 2015 at University College London, Institute of Education. Our Executive Committee Chair, Caroline Dyer, hosted a session of interesting debate and Angeline Barrett, Executive Committee Member, participated in the panel discussion. The full recorded proceedings can be viewed by visiting the Forums site.
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Event Announcement: Advanced Doctoral Workshop at UEA
02/04/2015 |
By BAICE
Event organisers of an Advanced Doctoral Workshop invite BAICE Student Members to attend ‘Participatory Research Approaches in Global Contexts’ on Friday 26 June. Find full details on our events page and the Workshop Homepage.
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Event Announcement: Bridging the Gap – a Literacy Working Group event
02/04/2015 |
By BAICE
You are warmly invited to join a free networking event: Bridging the Gap How can academic research into adult literacy, and women’s literacy in particular, inform and learn from NGO/INGOs working, in the field, on international development initiatives? At: NIACE, 21 De Montfort Street, Leicester LE1 7GE On: May 21st 2015 From: 10.30am – 3.30pm This will be the first of three, linked events. The purpose of the events is to focus on how research and practice in…
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Research Ethics in International and Comparative Education: A BAICE Thematic Forum
19/02/2015 |
By BAICE
BAICE Thematic Forums This BAICE Thematic Forum has been put together by Dr Lizzi Milligan (University of Bath), Professor Qing Gu &Professor Simon McGrath (University of Nottingham), Professor Michael Crossley &Professor Leon Tikly (University of Bristol) and Dr Nidhi Singal (University of Cambridge). The ethics of working in cross-cultural contexts is at the heart of the work that international and comparative educational (ICE) researchers conduct. A recent Compare Special Issue (Robinson-Pant and Singal, 2013) has highlighted…
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Journals on offer
29/01/2015 |
By BAICE
Volumes of the following journals are being made available by long standing BAICE member and former Director of Education Commonwealth Secretariat, Peter Williams. These must be picked up before mid March from Peter’s Dorking, Surrey home or – by mutual arrangement – in Central London. They will be provided free of charge. Preference given to a Library, but failing interest from Libraries to any individual on a first-come-first-served basis. Compare 1977-1984 (13 vols) Comparative Education only Vol 15 No 3…
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Registration now open for new BAICE Thematic Forum seminar
21/01/2015 |
By BAICE
BAICE Thematic Forums Challenging Deficit Discourses in International Education and Development is a newly launched BAICE Thematic Forum. Information about this Forum’s aims and objectives can be found on the description page. The first of two seminars, titled ‘Flourishing in the margins? Challenging discourses of group-based deficit’ will be held on 22 April at the University of Leeds. Full details are available on our events page. The second seminar, titled, ‘Invisible or hidden? Challenging discourses around…
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BAICE Welcomes Student Representative, Arif Naveed
20/01/2015 |
By BAICE
Mr Arif Naveed, BAICE Student Representative BAICE welcomes Arif Naveed to the position of BAICE Student Representative! Arif is a PhD student at the University of Cambridge. His doctoral research explores the role that education plays in disrupting the intergenerational transmission of poverty in rural Pakistan and contributes to social mobility. Contact: man48@cam.ac.uk Arif takes over from Helen Hannah who has completed her PhD at the Queens University Belfast. Many thanks to Helen for her years of service to…
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January Compare Writers’ Workshop: Call for applications
24/11/2014 |
By BAICE
ASPBAE (Asia South Pacific Association for Basic and Adult Education) and the Centre for Lifelong Learning, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (CLL-TISS), in collaboration with BAICE/ Compare and with support from UNGEI (United Nations Girls Education Initiative) are offering a writing for publication programme for researchers in the field of educational research. The programme consists of a workshop, to be held at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India on January 29-30 2015, and a follow-up during which participants work towards submitting an article to…
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