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The Centre will encompass a range of activities in the following areas:
(a) Research and scholarship
(i) developing and conducting research and development projects
to explore and clarify the needs of Commonwealth countries and promoting
the outcome of those projects;
(ii) recruiting, training, and supervising educational research students
from Commonwealth countries and providing opportunities for leaders
in education in Commonwealth countries to collaborate in research
work as Visiting Fellows;
(iii) identifying centres of best practice in primary and secondary
education in Commonwealth countries, and working with them to disseminate
their practice to others;
(iv) building up expertise on educational policy matters, especially
as they relate to the needs of Commonwealth countries;
(b) Educational leadership
(v) developing collaborative programmes with Commonwealth countries
to enhance educational leadership expertise in those countries;
(vi) developing and running courses in educational leadership;
(c) Consultancy and project development
(vii) working with the Commonwealth Secretariat to meet the needs
of Commonwealth Education Ministers, especially through providing
and synthesizing informed, critical, and creative advice, led by
research; and
(viii) undertaking consultancy projects on matters of interest to
Commonwealth governments, such as on the development of high-quality
educational procedures and examining systems.
The Centre will draw on relevant expertise within Cambridge and facilitate
the fullest possible co-operation in its activities by Commonwealth
countries.
The Centre will foster interaction between educational experts in
different Commonwealth countries, including the UK. It will provide
a forum of activity for Commonwealth educational research students.
By means of this interaction it will foster the development of new
methods of educational research. As a meeting point it will bring together
educational experts from Commonwealth countries and also educational
research students, for conferences and seminars involving leading academic
authorities in the field. Over time it will evolve into a centre of
excellence, which will define and disseminate best practice in the
field of education policy and practice. |
