Centre for Educational Research and Development

A draft programme for CERD’s annual Festival of Teaching and Learning has now been published. Please note that times and venues for some events have not yet been confirmed.

Draft programme

An evening of talk and debate for further and higher educators in Lincolnshire

March 14, 2012
5:00-7:30 p.m.
The Lincoln Drill Hall

Critical dialogue is essential to learning, teaching and research. We know that there are things to talk about – a fantastic amount of effective, inspiring and transformative teaching going on in colleges and universities across the region. We also know that educators working in further and education often have little time or space within their institutions to share experiences, build intellectual and political affinities, or explore their own academic practices together.

Teaching in Further and Higher Education offers an informal time and space to talk about education. As government encourages colleges and universities to compete with one another for students, money and prestige, we invite educators from across institutions to come together in professional society to strengthen the good work that is being done. As we are pressed to compete with one another as individuals through abstract criteria of excellence and value, we hope to encourage the collaboration and collegiality that make it possible to experiment with new ideas and practices. As everyday conversations about education become oriented ever further towards instrumental and managerial priorities, we invite teachers and students of teaching to think and talk about the things that really matter for our students and society. And in a climate where teachers’ critical questions are increasingly silenced by bureaucratic power or concerns about economic inefficiency, we invite critique and play.

This event is organised jointly by the University of Lincoln’s Centre for Educational Research and Development (CERD) and Bishop Grosseteste University College’s Centre for Educational Development and Research (CEDaR), as part of the Lincoln Festival of Teaching and Learning.  

The evening is free to attend, but places are limited, so please register on the website here.

For further information, contact Dr. Sarah Amsler at samsler@lincoln.ac.uk.

This seminar will be presented by Dr Carolina Guzman (University of Valparaiso, Chile).  Discussant Dr Sarah Amsler (CERD)

Friday 24th February 2-4pm

The Green Room

Think Tank

Ruston Way, Lincoln, LN6 7SL

Chile has one of the most marketized higher education systems in the world. The policies implemented during Pinochet’s government during the 80s – which have remained until now – have promoted a neoliberal approach towards higher education with several consequences: withdrawal of the State with less public education and more private education institutions, competition between universities in order to gain more income, an increase in tuition fees and incentives for academics directly to enhance their academic income with multiple sources of earnings. As a result, the commercialization of higher education, the supremacy of the private interest above the public interest, the means of gaining financial competency and the reward systems have led to a national crisis. This paper will explore some of these issues and the main dilemmas that, as a result, now characterize Chilean higher education.

A free conference for parents, governors and teachers, sponsored by the Centre for Educational Research & Development. University of Lincoln

No booking required

Education reforms nationally and locally are making huge changes to schooling in Lincolnshire. What is driving these changes? Are the arguments educational or economic? What’s in it for the County’s children?

If you don’t know the answer to these questions…if you want to engage in serious, open debate about the future of the County’s schools… then this event is for you.

The questions are important to get right – the answers are too important to get wrong.

Conference Programme

Keynote Speaker: Melissa Benn
(Author of School Wars: the Battle for Britain’s Education)

Also featuring Peter Downes (national authority on school finances), Alasdair Smith

Workshops  on Curriculum, Governance, Finance and Employment

Expert Panel (Q&A) 
(Governors, Councillors, Union Officers answer your questions)

Details

2-5 p.m. Saturday 3rd March EMMTEC Auditorium
University of Lincoln, Brayford Campus (Click for a map of the campus)

(Close to bus and rail links, ample car parking)

Conference programme with full workshop details here – Education in Lincolnshire – programmev1

Get conference updates via twitter – #cerdconf

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