Events
November 2009
Visiting Scholar Seminar given by:
Dr. Pak Tee Ng, Associate Professor and Leadership Studies Academic Group, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Education Reforms in Singapore: From "Thinking Schools, Learning Nation" to "Teach Less Learn More"
Thursday 5th November 2009, 10.30 am p 12.00 pm, Faculty of Education, Donald McIntyre Building, Room GS1. ALL WELCOME
For more information see entry on Talks.Cam
RSVP: Lyndsay Upex (lju20@cam.ac.uk)
June 2009
Cambridge Summer School - The Centre held a successful two week summer school from 22nd June-3rd July, 2009. Participants came from as far afield as New Zealand, Canada, Malaysia, Ghana, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania as well as from the UK. They represented academic institutions, Government Ministries and international aid organisations:
- The first three days focused on sharing expertise and on knowledge generation on leading, learning and improvement in a variety of contexts selected strategically from around the Commonwealth. It also endeavoured to build capacity through collaborative knowledge generation and on furthering this through collaborative networks.
- Days Four and Five were devoted to working intensively on the projects underway in East Africa with a view to building on the learning and developing the next stage of the projects.
- Alongside this and throughout the second week, Sue Swaffield and John MacBeath worked intensively with a group of 15 Ghanaian educationalists (education lecturers, teacher trainers, ministry and district officials and a headteacher) to prepare them to lead professional development for headteachers across Ghana.
May 2009
Workshop: The BAICE East of England Partnership was established on 18th May when the CCE and EED Academic Group, supported by BAICE, hosted the first of two workshops which provided an opportunity to reflect on the 'internationalisation of higher education' in terms of educational research in a cross-cultural context, as well as exploring issues around pedagogy and practice in education faculties. The second seminar took place at UEA, Norwich on 22nd June. The two workshops brought together staff and graduate students working on educational or education-related research in the Centre for Commonwealth Education and the Centre for Education and International Development of the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge and the Centre for Applied Research in Education (CARE)/School of Education and Lifelong Learning & School of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia. Summary Report