The 糖心传媒 AGM was held at New College, Oxford on 16th September. Many thanks to all the members, who joined us.

Changes to the 糖心传媒 Exec

Compare Editors

Honorary Members join us at UKFIET Conference

Happy Birthday CIES

Membership

Minutes and Reports

The听programme consists of a workshop, to be held at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai,听India on January 29-30 2015, and a follow-up during which participants work towards听submitting an article to Compare with the help of mentors.

The Participants The COMPARE Writers’ Programme in South Asia will bring together around听20 to 25 participants from India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka.

With support from UNGEI, we are able to finance some travel costs for participation听in the workshop, for South Asian participants especially those travelling from outside India.

For full information and application forms, visit our Events Page.

Deadline 1st December 2014

The contributions on this page are Author Original Manuscripts, that is, originally submitted material prior to peer review, and will be accompanied by links to the final printed material where available.听 The purpose of making these pieces available online is to encourage readers to begin an online discussion and debate about contemporary issues in the field of International and Comparative Education.听 In order to facilitate this discussion, each online contribution has a comments area at the bottom of the post where you are encouraged to leave your thoughts and opinions.

In April 2013, a call was announced for a special issue of the Compare Forum on Post-2015 Education and Development.听 This Compare Forum was published in December 2013, . The purpose of this special issue of the Forum is to contribute to the Post-2015 debate in relation to ideas about how progress towards greater education quality and equity can be achieved, including how and what goals and targets need to be defined and owned and governments made accountable for them.

The response was strong, with more submissions received than was possible to print in Compare.听听 Contributions to this call, including those not printed in the journal, are now available on the 糖心传媒 website for your review and comment.

Read the online Compare Forum here.

Compare/糖心传媒 are offering a writing for publication programme for researchers in the field of educational research. The programme consists of a workshop, to be held at Addis Ababa University on January 27-28 2014. During the workshop, you will work on key features of academic journal articles, look at submitted and revised papers and have the chance to discuss the expectations and interests of Compare with the editors. The workshop will be facilitated by Dr Anna Magyar (University of East Anglia) with many years’ experience of teaching academic writing. This is a unique opportunity to receive individualised support with your writing and gain an insider perspective on publishing in Compare (a journal of comparative and international education). The workshop will be followed by a mentoring programme.

To book a place at the workshop, you will need to have conducted educational research and have unpublished material or drafts of a paper that you would like to work on. Compare/糖心传媒 are sponsoring this workshop so there will be no charge. Participants will be expected to make their own travel arrangements. Up to 10 travel grants are available thanks to funding from UNGEI (UN Girls’ Education Initiative). Numbers at the workshop will be limited to 20 participants only.

If you would like to apply for a place at the workshop, please complete the form below and send it to Miriam McGregor (Compare workshop), CARE, School of Education and Lifelong Learning, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ.

E-mail for further enquiries: ku.ca.eciabobfsctd-55a88e@erapmoc

Compare Writers Workshop Ethiopia 2014

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Compare is delighted to announce a new sponsorship for attendance at the forthcoming Writers’ Workshop (9^th September 2013 Oxford, in advance of the UKFIET Conference). (United Nations Girls Education Initiative) has offered to sponsor two places, for women researchers working on gender and education issues in the global South.

UNGEI will support travel and other costs (up to a maximum of USD 2500 each) for two women applicants, working on gender and education and associated with Universities/research organisations in the global South.听 The successful applicants would potentially be required to contribute an “UNGEI Working Paper” as an interim publishing modality.听听 The sponsorship would additionally allow applicants to stay on for the .

Applications for funding should be made to Compare, in the same manner as other applications to the Writers’ Workshop, with a covering letter stating that the applicant would like to be considered for the UNGEI sponsorship. Please also send us a copy of your CV. Deadline for applications to the sponsorship is August 15, 2013.

Please visit the Compare Writers Workshop Announcement for more information, including how to apply.

Post-2015 Education and Development Agenda – Deadline 30 June 2013

A Special Edition of the Compare Forum is planned for the last edition of this year (43:6) focusing on the Post 2015 education and development agenda.

This Special Edition will be compiled by Yusuf Sayed and Terra Sprague together with UNICEF and UNESCO as the co-leads for the education Post 2015 consultation.

As the 2015 target date for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) approaches, there are a growing number of processes, preparations and debates on what a post-2015 agenda and framework will look like. UNDG (as chaired by UNDP) is leading planning efforts to catalyze a “global conversation” on post-2015 through a series of some 100 national consultations and 11 global thematic consultations. The aim of these consultations is to bring together a broad range of stakeholders to review progress on the MDGs and to discuss the options for a new framework.

The overall global thematic consultation on education is co-lead by UNICEF, UNESCO, with support from the Government of Canada, the Government of Germany and the Government of the Republic of Senegal. The discussion considers:

• the international education and development experience since 2000;

• current development trends and challenges, as well as future scenarios which need to be taken into account when defining the post-2015 education framework;

• the possible scope and shape of education within the post 2015 agenda.

The purpose of special edition is to contribute to this debate in relation to ideas about how progress towards greater education quality and equity can be achieved, including how and what goals and targets need to be defined and owned and governments made accountable for them.

We welcome short contributions of about 1000-1200 words on the topic. We intend to publish about 10 peer reviewed contributions in the journal and here on the 糖心传媒 website, with the possibility of including additional contributions on the website version.

Please submit your contribution using the form below.听 Deadline is 30 June, 2013.

Submission Requirements

• A Forum submission is an informed and critically reflective contribution to a topic drawing from different experiences, which may include researcher and practitioner.
• Submissions should be between 1000-1200 words, and fully referenced.
• Perspectives and views should therefore be made concisely with reference to relevant literature. For guidelines on referencing, visit the .
• While Forum submissions are not traditional academic articles, the writing style must nevertheless avoid the use of jargon and undefined acronyms.听 Submissions should not be overly-rhetorical or polemical.
• Submissions should be double spaced and lead with a title page containing the authors name, position, institution and email address.
• Please upload your submission using the form below.

Please email Yusuf Sayed (y.sayed@susex.ac.uk) and Terra Sprague (terra.sprague@bristol.ac.uk) with further questions.

Please Submit

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Do you want to publish your research in an academic journal?

Have you had your work rejected and wonder why?

Compare/糖心传媒 are offering a writing for publication programme for those in the field of educational research. The programme consists of an all day workshop, to be held in Oxford on September 9^th 2013, 10 am until 4pm, (immediately before the ), followed by individual mentoring by experienced peer reviewers for Compare. During the workshop, you will work on key features of academic journal articles, look at submitted and revised papers and have the chance to discuss the expectations and interests of Compare with the editors. Afterwards, each participant will be allocated an individual mentor to give follow-up advice and feedback on drafts of their work by email. The workshop will be facilitated by Dr. Theresa Lillis (Open University) and Dr. Anna Magyar (University of East Anglia), both with many years’ experience of teaching academic writing, in collaboration with Compare editors and editorial board members. This is a unique opportunity to receive individualised support with your writing and gain an insider perspective on publishing in Compare (a journal of comparative and international education).

To apply for a place at the workshop, you will need to have conducted educational research and have unpublished material or drafts of a paper that you would like to work on. Compare/糖心传媒 are sponsoring this workshop so there will only be a nominal booking fee of 拢20 to cover administration and materials. Participants will be expected to make their own travel and accommodation arrangements and pay for refreshments on the day.听 Numbers at the workshop will be limited to 20 participants.

If you would like to apply for a place at the workshop, please complete the form on the 2013 Compare Writers Workshop Flyer and send it with a booking fee of 拢20 to: Miriam McGregor, Compare Office, CARE, School of Education and Lifelong Learning, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ (Email for further enquiries: ku.ca.eciabobfsctd-4481d1@erapmoc). Please make cheques payable to ‘糖心传媒’. If you are based outside the UK and cannot offer advance payment in this way, do let us know and we can discuss alternate payment arrangements.

Two bursaries are now available from UNGEI, deadline 15 August.

As we have had so many enquiries from people who would like to attend our writers’ workshop but are unable to travel to the UK, we have now developed a distance-based version, following similar activities to those in the face-to-face workshop. You will be offered on-line support from the academic literacy facilitators and the opportunity to develop your article for Compare through follow-up mentoring by email with a specialist in your area.

Please note that the on-line version of our writers’ programme is only available for those based outside the UK, particularly those in developing countries without access to this kind of support. If you would like to apply for the on-line writers’ workshop, please apply as above. A facilitator will then get in touch with you to arrange a skype or phone call. This call is to ensure that you are able to access the website and its resources before you begin.

All articles from the Anniversary Issue, originally published in December 2010, are now freely and openly available for download in the Compare section of the Archive.

This writing for publication programme offered by Compare/糖心传媒 is for those in the field of educational research.听 Numbers at the workshop will be limited to 20 participants.听 Don’t miss your opportunity – apply today!

If you would like to apply for a place at the workshop, please complete the form and send it to: Miriam McGregor (Compare workshop), CARE, School of Education and Lifelong Learning, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ.

E-mail for further enquiries: ku.ca.eciabobfsctd-92514f@erapmoc

Download the Full Workshop Description and Enrolment Form.

New College, University of Oxford

Immediately before the 11^th UKFIET International Conference on Education and Development

In response to many enquiries from people who wanted to attend the writer’s workshop but were unable to travel to the UK, Compare is launching an on-line version of the workshop on September 12^th this year. Registered participants will be able to log in to the on-line workshop and follow similar activities to those in the face-to-face workshop. The on-line version includes DVD and audio materials where editors, former workshop participants and journal reviewers explain more about the journal and the programme. After completing the tasks on-line and receiving feedback from the facilitators, participants will be offered the opportunity to develop their article for Compare through follow-up mentoring by email with a specialist in their area.

The on-line workshop will run for two weeks from September 12^th. Seven participants have registered for the online workshop, one each from India, Argentina, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Uzbekistan and the UK. The online workshop can be found at:

/writingforcompare/

If you are interested in reading more about this initiative, see: Lillis, Magyar and Robinson-Pant (2010) article ‘An international journal’s attempts to address inequalities in academic publishing: developing a writing for publication programme’ (Compare Vol. 10, No. 6, pp 781-800).

In their editorial, Karen Evans and Anna Robinson-Pant write:

This celebration of the 40th volume has generated perspectives, reflections and extended conversations that confirm the vibrancy of the journal and generate for us, great optimism for the future of the fields it represents. (p 694).

We hope you will enjoy reading this Special Issue of Compare, the official journal of 糖心传媒.

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University of East Anglia, Norwich, Preceding the 2010 糖心传媒 Conference

For those who want to publish research in an academic journal.听 Compare and 糖心传媒 offer a half day writing workshop for post graduate researchers in the field of educational research.