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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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

Message from the Campaign for Social Science

29/04/2014 | By BAICE

A message from Ewan MacArthur, Communications Officer, Campaign for Social Sciences Dear Colleague, As a supporter of the Campaign for Social Science, we thought we would inform you that the Campaign has started to work on a report on the value of the social sciences to the future of the UK. At a reception, held in partnership with SAGE publishers at the Reform Club on Wednesday April 2nd, it was announced that the Campaign will publish this report ahead of…

Education, Disability and Development Thematic Forum Announces Seminar

09/04/2014 | By BAICE

BAICE Thematic Forums The Education, Disability and Development BAICE Thematic Forum announces its next seminar: “Education for social justice: framing an agenda for disability research and action in the Global South” To be held on 6th (Friday) June 2014 at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. Our three keynote presenters Professor Pauline Rose, Chair in International Education and Development, University of Cambridge. Pauline will provide insights from her experience as Chair of the UNESCO Global…

BAICE 2013 Student Prize Winner, Bronwen Magrath

09/04/2014 | By BAICE

Bronwen Magrath, winner of the 2013 BAICE Student Prize BAICE is pleased to announce that the Student Prize for a paper presented at the 2013 UKFIET Conference has been awarded to Bronwen Magrath for her paper, ‘Information Politics and Transnational Activism in the Education for All Movement’. Bronwen obtained her PhD from the University of Toronto in November 2013. She completed a collaborative doctorate in Comparative, International and Development Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in…

Insider – Outsider Perspectives BTF holds successful Day Conference and Workshop

10/03/2014 | By BAICE

BAICE Thematic Forums On Monday, 24 February, the BAICE Thematic Forum on Revisiting Insider-Outsider Perspectives in International and Comparative Education held its third event in the form of a day conference and book publication workshop at the University of Bristol, hosted by the Research Centre for International and Comparative Studies. This was a successful and well attended event in two parts, which followed the format of the Programme found below. Attendees included twenty four colleagues from…

Messages from the WCCES President

04/03/2014 | By BAICE

BAICE is a member society of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES). From time to time, BAICE receives messages from the WCCES Secretariat for distribution to the membership. Please see the below messages from WCCES President, Dr. Carlos Alberto Torres.

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