Centre for Commonwealth Education
The Centre for Commonwealth Education within the Faculty of Education receives significant funding from the Commonwealth Education Trust (the successor trust to the Commonwealth Institute). The Commonwealth Education Trust and the University have established the Centre within the Faculty to make a vibrant and long term contribution to primary and secondary education, and to initial and continuing teacher education, throughout the Commonwealth.
Upcoming CCE Events:
Teaching Caribbean Poetry - Cambridge Summer School (28-30 August 2012). This course for Secondary English teachers and 6th form teachers is part of the Caribbean Poetry Project collaboration between Cambridge University and the University of the West Indies. The course is designed to help teachers become more confident in tackling poetry - Caribbean poetry in particular. Download brochure
The Power of Caribbean Poetry - Word and Sound. An international conference on Caribbean Poetry will be held at Homerton College / Cambridge Faculty of Education 20 - 22 September 2012. Members of the Caribbean Poetry project from Cambridge University Faculty of Education and the University of the West Indies will be hosting the conference and disseminating its outcomes. Speakers will include: John Agard, Beverley Bryan, Kei Miller, Mervyn Morris, Grace Nichols, Velma Pollard, Olive Senior and Dorothea Smartt. Download brochure
Further information about both events, together with online registration is available via the project website