News
July 2009
Visiting Scholar - The Centre for Commonwealth Education is pleased to welcome Dr Pak Tee Ng as its first Visiting Scholar (July 2009-end February 2010). Dr Ng is Associate Professor, Policy and Leadership Studies Academic Group at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. More ...
Round Table II took place in Dar es Salaam between 31st July and 2nd August 2009 to review the progress of the initiatives developed in East Africa in collaboration with the Institute of Educational Development at the Aga Khan University in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
June 2009
Cambridge Summer School - The Centre held a successful two week summer school from 22nd June-3rd July, 2009. Participants representing academic institutions, Government Ministries and international aid organisations came from as far afield as New Zealand, Canada, Malaysia, Ghana, Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania as well as from the UK. More...
May 2009
Workshop: The CCE and EED Academic Group, supported by BAICE, hosted the first of two workshops on Internationalising Education Research Cultures and Graduate Training. More ...
World Bank – Commonwealth Secretariat Regional Caribbean Conference: Dr Molly Warrington and Mike Younger attended the conference on Keeping Boys out of Risk, held at Montego Bay, Jamaica, 7-9 May, 2009. 58 representatives were present from 15 Caricom nations, together with 38 development cooperation and expert presenters. The Conference was opened by the Education Minister from Jamaica, Honourable Andrew Holness, and the Jamaican Prime Minister, Honourable Bruce Golding, gave the opening address on day 2.
Dr Warrington and Mr Younger contributed keynote contributions to the first session of panel discussions, Keeping Schools from Failing Youth and Youth from Failing Schools, and to the session on day 2 when the development partners met together to discuss Cooperation to Keep Boys out of Risk. Useful contacts were made with Commonwealth Secretariat and World Bank officials.
India: a group of 20 delegates from the National Council of Educational Research and training (NCERT) in India visited the CCE from 5-8 May. Senior members of Faculty met with the group and the programme included seminars on improving and evaluating school and classroom quality,
visits to schools and discussions around the evaluation studies being undertaken by NCERT in India.
Oxford: Professor John MacBeath and Dr Ciaran Sugrue contributed to the Oxford Conference: Commonwealth Educational Co-operation: Looking ahead at 50 Conference. George Oduro, one of the CCE's partners from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, gave a keynote address: Headteacher Leadership Development in Africa: the missing ingredient, while Iffat Farah from IED addressed the theme from an East African perspective. Ministers (from South Africa and Barbados) and the Prime Minister (Namibia) provided a rich account of issues
Visits to Ghana took place in January and May 2009 to develop a proposal with University of Cape Coast on School Leadership and the Improvement of the Quality of Teaching and Learning in Ghanaian Schools and a group of 15 professional development leaders will attend the Cambridge Summer School.
September 2008
The Centre for Commonwealth Education Colloquium in Singapore in September 2008 (see photos below) - brought people together from Ghana, Tanzania, Malaysia, Singapore, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and the UK (CCE and CET) to begin to develop initiatives on pedagogy and leadership.
Subsequent fieldwork visits to Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda have taken place to continue to develop the initiatives on gender, ICT, HIV/Aids and pedagogy/leadership in the classroom.
The Zanzibar Round Table I, July 2008 saw the setting up of initiatives in East Africa on teacher education (in the areas of ICT, gender and HIV/Aids) in collaboration with the Institute of Educational Development at the Aga Khan University in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.