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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Challenging deficit discourses in international education and development: A BAICE Thematic Forum
30/10/2014 | By BAICE
BAICE Thematic Forums This BAICE Thematic Forum is organised by the University of East Anglia Literacy and Development Group and Leeds School of Politics and International Studies. It aims to deepen understanding around how deficit discourses have shaped the questions and objectives of international educational research. As well as deconstructing and gaining greater knowledge into why and how these dominant deficit discourses have influenced the research agenda, we will also investigate and propose alternative conceptual models…

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2014 BAICE Student Prize
17/10/2014 | By BAICE

For a paper presented at the 2014 BAICE Conference, Bath If you are a BAICE Student Member and have given a paper at the BAICE Conference in Bath, you are invited to submit your paper for the BAICE student prize.  Deadline is Thursday 15th January, 2015 The prize of £500 is for a paper presented by a student member at the Conference (8-10 September 2014) and fully written up afterwards. Entrants will be asked to provide a letter from their…

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2014 Conference Programme
21/08/2014 | By BAICE

The 2014 BAICE Conference Programme has been published and can be downloaded below. The Programme shares the schedule, conference information and high level description about each of the parrallel sessions. If you have not yet registered for the Conference, please do so by visiting the Bath University Store as registration will soon close.    

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