Research Centres
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Centre
for Educational Leadership (CEL)
Centre for Educational Leadership's
mission is to provide a worldclass support service to
employers and schools in the development of and support
of their educational leaders through a varied curriculum
of professional development programmes and activities,
soundly located in professional partnerships and quality
research.
 CEL
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Centre
for Educational Sociology (CES)
The Centre for Educational Sociology is a dedicated
Research Centre of the School of Education, in the College of Humanities
and Social Science of the University of Edinburgh. It conducts independent,
high quality multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary research on
all sectors of education and on education policy. CES was founded
in 1972 and has developed and continues to sustain a strong reputation
for its analyses of social, educational and policy change; for its
close links with practitioners and for its independent relationship
with policy-makers; for survey research; and for comparative research
both within the UK and in continental Europe.
CES
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Scottish
Autism Research Group (SARG)
The Scottish Autism Research Group, which was founded
in 1999, is an interdisciplinary group of academic researchers, postgraduate
students and practitioners involved in research into autistic spectrum
disorders.
SARG
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Education & Training
The group are active in research on education and training in
the developing world. This is particularly concentrated on Africa,
where it is often in collaboration with the University's Centre
of African Studies. This work currently includes the major
DFID funded "Learning to Compete" Project.
Group members have a long record of policy advice and consultancy to
bilateral and multilateral agencies.
Group members are also active in postgraduate teaching and supervise
a large number of doctoral students on international education and training
topics. Students are currently researching topics including adult basic
education in South Africa; the economics of school enrolment in Thailand;
the identity and activities of teachers in Tanzania; and the role of
donors to education in Nepal.
Group Members:
Ruth Wedgwood, and Dr Gari Donn (email: G.Donn@ed.ac.uk)
Centre of African Studies website: www.cas.ed.ac.uk
Research interests:
(i) international and comparative education policy, provision and practice
particularly in sub-Saharan Africa (Kenya, Zambia, Botswana, Uganda,
Zimbabwe and South Africa) and in the Commonwealth;
(ii) the increasing importance of the globalisation of knowledge industries
on the formation and discourses surrounding curriculum and gender; the
theory and practice of educational administration; educational leadership
and the state; and
(iii) the relevance of critical social theory for an understanding of
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Assessment Unit
The Educational Assessment Unit within the Department of Education
and Society develops assessment instruments for use in many sectors
of education for a range of purposes. Recent examples of projects
undertaken are:
- Standardisation of the City of Edinburgh Baseline Literacy
Assessment (for ages 4-5)
- Development of tests in mathematics and English designed
for use at S2 level for East Renfrewshire Council
- Collaboration with Hodder and Stoughton Educational on the
modernisation and upgrading of the Edinburgh Reading Test Series
- Baseline Assessment for the Pre-school/Primary 1 national
pilot survey for the Scottish Office Education and Industry
Department
- Assessment of Achievement Programme (AAP) in English Language
for the Scottish Office Education and Industry Department
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