This post is normally for a period of two years, renewable for one further term of office. The Vice-Chair is expected to have a demonstrated commitment to furthering the aims and scope of ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½, namely to:

• promote research, policy and development in all aspects of international and comparative education; and
• encourage the growth and development of international and comparative studies in education.

The post is voluntary, and a time commitment is required to: attend three Executive Committee meetings a year (where possible); attend the ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ AGM during the ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½/UKFIET conferences in September; and to undertake related activities. The Vice-Chair plays a crucial role on the Executive Committee, undertaking a range of roles to support and promote ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½, and is expected to work closely with the Chair. In particular, s/he is expected to play a leadership role in relation to ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½â€™s funding-related activities.

The Vice-Chair benefits from excellent networking opportunities within a thriving and dynamic Association as well as full voting rights on the Executive Committee. Expenses for attendance at ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ events are reimbursed.

To be eligible, the candidate must have at least five years of experience as a UK-based academic, and it is desirable that s/he has also engaged actively with ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ in the past, for example as a member of its Executive Committee. ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ Vice Chair will serve as a trustee of ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½.

To make a nomination, please send the following to the ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ Support Officer, Dr Nozomi Sakata, ku.ca.eciabobfsctd-272ad3@reciffotroppus, byÌýmidnight on Friday 31st May 2024:

• Name of nominee; name of nominator; name of person seconding the nomination (all three must be members of ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ at the time of nomination);
• A two-page CV with a cover letter of no more than two pages, explaining why you are interested in the role and outlining your relevant skills and experience.

You are also welcome to direct informal enquiries to the ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ Chair, Prof. Tejendra Pherali (ku.ca.lcuobfsctd-911efd@ilarehp.t).

The ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ Executive Committee will vote on the applications, and applicants will be notified of the results within a month of the deadline.

With best wishes,

The ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ Executive Committee

Time is short! for the 2016 ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ Conference. The conference will have some fantastic highlights including:

• Internationally acclaimed Keynotes and speakers from around the World
• “Question Time” style plenary panel – ask the burning questions of the speakers that you have always wanted to ask
• Social event – eat, drink and be merry at the World famous Trent Bridge Cricket Ground – home of Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club, Stuart Broad, Graeme Swann and James Taylor to name but a few and home of the World famous Ashes Test Series.
• Visit the beautiful and historic University Park (Green Flag Award Winning site) and surrounding grounds and gardens including the Highfields Boating Lake.
• Take a tram ride into Nottingham City Centre and experience some of the best restaurants and evening entertainment the East Midlands has to offer.

For further details, please download the Conference flyer.

The ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ students reps represent the interests of early career researchers on the Executive Committee and participate in decision making about the association. They have special responsibility for organising the annual ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ student conference and 1-2 smaller events for students;and sustaining and expanding our student membership.

This is an exciting, interesting challenge and an excellent networking opportunity for anyone involved in international and/or comparative education.

Applicants should send a brief CV outlining their research interests together with a covering letter explaining what they think ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ could do for students and how their experience could support ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ activities. This should be maximum two pages in total. You must either be a member of ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ or be willing to join the association.Ìý

Please email your application to Ìýku.ca.eciabobfsctd-5fdece@yraterces.

Closing date for applications isÌý30th October 2015.Ìý

For more information, please contact Yuwei and Arif, the current student reps throughÌýku.ca.eciabobfsctd-6917ef@stneduts.

This capacity-building workshop is intended to support institutions to develop spaces and opportunities for research writing and publishing within their institutions. The workshop builds on the interest created by our previous writing workshops in Addis Ababa and Mumbai, which targeted individual writers. The key element in this new initiative is the training of ‘writing champions’ who, for a small honorarium, will return to their institutions and set up writing groups, thereby fostering a research writing ‘culture’ in which peer feedback and mentoring will be key elements.

Applicants

We invite applications from previous participants in the Writing for Compare programme or institutions may already have someone who is institutionally well-placed to develop this role.

The workshop

The training will be devised and delivered by Anna Robinson-Pant, Anna Magyar and Nitya Rao, drawing on their collective experience of capacity building, academic literacies and writing development activities. The workshop will be experiential in that the ‘writing champions’ will participate in small writing groups. Some simple tools and techniques for facilitating discussions and giving and receiving peer feedback will be introduced.

The ‘writing champions’ will be supported by the Compare workshop facilitator for one year.

The rationale behind this initiative

The initial impetus for the ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½/Compare programme was to address inequalities in academic publishing and participation through increasing individual participation and contribution of writers from under represented countries in the South. The workshops held in the UK only succeeded in drawing in our intended audience to a limited extent, because of economic inequalities. In our 2012 report to ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ we proposed finding ways of running the initial workshops in the South through linking with local institutions. This was achieved in Addis Ababa in 2014 and then in Mumbai in 2015. From the feedback participants gave, it is clear that for individual writers, whether or not they get to the point of submitting a research paper to Compare, and whether or not that paper is then published, the benefits are significant. We now propose expanding these capacity building benefits in a sustainable way by focusing on institutional and not just individual capacity building.

Contact

ku.ca.eciabobfsctd-86a9a6@erapmoc

Flyer

Compare Writers Programme Phil 2016

• promote research, policy and development in all aspects of international and comparative education;and
• encourage the growth and development of international and comparative studies in education.

Two types of research funding are available:

• Building Research Capacity and Networks
• Seedcorn

A further call will be made Spring 2016 with a deadline ofÌý1st May 2016. For further details visit the funding page.

The ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ students reps represent the interests of early career researchers on the Executive Committee and participate in decision making about the association. They have special responsibility for organising the annual ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ student conference and 1-2 smaller events for students;and sustaining and expanding our student membership.

This is an exciting, interesting challenge and an excellent networking opportunity for anyone involved in international and/or comparative education.

Applicants should send a brief CV outlining their research interests together with a covering letter explaining what they think ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ could do for students and how their experience could support ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ activities. This should be maximum two pages in total. You must either be a member of ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ or be willing to join the association.Ìý

Please email your application to Ìýku.ca.eciabobfsctd-6d273b@yraterces.

Closing date for applications isÌý30th October 2015.Ìý

For more information, please contact Yuwei and Arif, the current student reps throughÌýku.ca.eciabobfsctd-3a08c1@stneduts.

The ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ students reps represent the interests of early career researchers on the Executive Committee and participate in decision making about the association. They have special responsibility for organising the annual ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ student conference and 1-2 smaller events for students;and sustaining and expanding our student membership.

This is an exciting, interesting challenge and an excellent networking opportunity for anyone involved in international and/or comparative education.

Applicants should send a brief CV outlining their research interests together with a covering letter explaining what they think ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ could do for students and how their experience could support ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ activities. This should be maximum two pages in total. You must either be a member of ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ or be willing to join the association.Ìý

Please email your application to Ìýku.ca.eciabobfsctd-7e2b31@yraterces.

Closing date for applications isÌý30th October 2015.Ìý

For more information, please contact Yuwei and Arif, the current student reps throughÌýku.ca.eciabobfsctd-93a5bb@stneduts.

Further details about each position and the application process can be found in the following document: ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ Executive Committee Call for Interest 2015

Each appointment is for an initial term of three years, which can be extended for a further term by mutual agreement. Both Editors will have general responsibilities for editing and overseeing processes of peer reviewing, outlined below, and specifically:

• Co-Editor (Strategy and Special Issues) will have particular responsibility for promotion of Compare and screening and coordinating proposals for Special Issues.
• Co-Editor (Forum) will have particular responsibility for the Forum section of Compare, including facilitating the development of Forum ideas and proposals and peer review of Forum contributions.

Each Co-Editor will work closely with the Chair of the Editorial Board (Prof Caroline Dyer) and the Editorial Board, and receive administrative support from the editorial assistant. S/he is expected to attend three Board meetings per year and also to contribute to the ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ Executive as an ex-officio member. An honorarium is paid for the Editorship.

Applications close on July 15, 2015. Futher details can be found in the attached document: ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ Compare Editors Call for Interest 2015

International policy borrowing and evidence-based educational policy making: relationships and tensions

Call for Papers: submit by July 1st 2015

ÌýTheme

This special issue will look at how evidence from one jurisdiction or context influences educational policy decision making in another. Policy borrowing (sometimes disparagingly referred to as ‘policy tourism’) is a contentious and difficult area. Much can be learnt from looking at the successes and challenges of education reform in different contexts but it is not always simple to transfer those lessons to new contexts. This issue will investigate how the subtleties of different education systems are understood by policy makers, advisors and academics and how they then apply this knowledge. It will also explore the reasons behind international policy borrowing (both explicit and implicit), the extent to which it is evidence-based, and whether it is used to justify or inform reform.

This call for papers invites reports of original research, critical reviews of recent research and leading-edge discussion articles from colleagues working in the area. Articles must be accessible to the generalist reader and relevant to the journal’s international readership. Contributions from outside the UK are especially welcome. We are particularly interested in articles from a range of contexts and perspectives – international and regional.

Further Details

For more information please see the flyer with submission details and guidance on contributions.

All officers of the Executive Committee work closely together, and are expected to attend meetings held three times per year and contribute actively to our thriving Association. Both the advertised roles offer opportunities to learn about how a professional association runs and contribute to its strategic direction. With this in mind, these opportunities may be of particular interest to early career researchers, but we welcome applications from suitable candidates at any career stage.

Applicants must be current ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ members. To apply, please send a two-page CV with a covering letter of no more than two pages, explaining why you are interested in the role and outlining how your skills match those required (set out below), to ku.ca.eciabobfsctd-6baddc@reciffotroppus by Wednesday 27^th May.

Secretary

The responsibilities of the secretary include:

• Taking minutes of key meetings and maintaining the records of the Association;
• Arranging the Annual General Meeting, including notifying the membership, taking the minutes and sharing these with all members;
• Working closely with the Chair and Vice-Chair to develop agenda and organise Executive Committee meetings;and
• Liaising with the Treasurer and the Communications Officer to keep members up to date about ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ opportunities.

ÌýCommunications officer

The responsibilities of the Communications Manager include:

• The development and implementation of an overall communications strategy to outline the frequency and type of communication to be targeted to ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ members and to the wider community. This includes website content, email messages, social media;
• Being aware of the scope of ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ activity and all its projects events and activities in order to communicate these to the membership;and
• Liaising with members of the executive committee and ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ and UKFIET conference convenors for website and communications content.

The following desired skills are required for both roles:

• Clear written and oral communication skills;
• Proactivity;
• Organisational skills;Ìýand
• Ability to work well independently and as part of the executive committee team.

For the communications officer, some technical skills for managing website content (or the willingness to develop these) and ability to use social media are required. Please note that the Communications officer works closely with the webmaster (who deals with all the technical aspects of the website management).

Please note these are volunteer positions and applicants must be resident in the UK.

Letter of Invitation

Dear colleagues,

On behalf of the Department of Lifelong Learning Education at the University of Greenwich, the Division of Health and Well Being of the University Huddersfield, and the Centre for Work-based Learning of Middlesex University, we warmly extend an invitation to you to join us at the second International Conference on Comparative and Multidisciplinary Studies in Social and Human Sciences. The themes of the Conference continue to encourage the exploration of multi-disciplinarity, indicating that we hope to attract a wide range of interesting and provocative presentations covering all aspects and phases of multidisciplinary and comparative studies across disciplines and regions. You are invited to contribute to this by presenting your own paper and research projects.

Last year’s conference was a huge success and validated our belief that conferences are more fruitful if the number of presentations is limited. Our experience last year confirmed that colleagues were better able to engage with the presentations with a lot more time devoted to discussions and indeed, progressing some of the ideas contained in different presentations. We intend to continue with this strategy this year. As such, we are limiting presentations at this conference to 60 and selection will be on a first come first served basis.

As was the case last year, the conference will be hosted in the idyllic setting of the Maritime Campus of the University of Greenwich, a UN World Heritage Site. In close proximity to the conference venue are excellent hotels and various historical attractions. Please try and join us – and, if I can impose on you further, please forward this invitation to your friends, colleagues and students who may be interested.

All the details are available through the links below.

http://conference.ijmcs-journal.org/

I look forward very much to welcoming you in Greenwich, London!