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Management and Institutional Development
Current Research Projects include:
Under-represented Participation in UK Higher Education
Dr. Huq’s research focuses on the subjective
realities of three under-represented undergraduate student groups to shed
light on non-traditional participants and participation in HE and the
extent to which the traditional and new university sectors have adapted
accordingly (focusing on the University of Manchester, Manchester Metropolitan
University and Bolton Institute).
| Sponsor: |
Leverhulme Trust Fellowship |
| Dates: |
2000-2002 |
| Investigator: |
Dr. Rupa Huq |
Excellence in Cities
Excellence in Cities is a DfES initiative designed
to improve the quality of education provided in urban schools. Using the
opportunities provided by the introduction of the Leadership Incentive
Grant, the Excellence in Cities Leadership Development Unit focuses on
supporting leadership practices that raise and sustain achievement and
standards in the classroom. Dame Jean Else, the Headteacher of Whalley
Range 11–18 High School, Manchester, a school with an outstanding
record of continued improvement in the quality of urban education, directs
the unit. She works closely with Professors Mel Ainscow and Mel West,
who are recognised internationally for their research on school improvement,
and Dr Jacqui Stanford, who assists in managing and researching the unit’s
activities (all based at the University of Manchester).
| Sponsor: |
Department for Education and Skills (DfES) |
| Dates: |
1 April 2002 – 31 March 2005 |
| Investigators: |
Prof. Mel Ainscow, Prof. Mel West, Dr. Jacqui Stanford |
How to motivate 14-16 year olds with special reference
to work-related education and training.
A series of research seminars currently being run
in collaboration with the Centre for Economic Performance at the LSE
| Sponsor: |
ESRC |
| Dates: |
December 2002 – November 2003 |
| Contributors: |
These include Hilary Steedman (LSE), Howard
Gospel (Kings),
Shelia Stoney (NFER), David Hall and Carlo Raffo (Manchester) |
An Evaluation of
Manchester Connexions Trials
This research project examines some of the processes and structures in
the three Connexions trials that appear both to aid and constrain community-based
Connexions Personal Advisors (PAs) in engaging and empowering potentially
"disaffected" young people between 13 and 19 to overcome barriers
and become included through education, training and work provision within
the city
| Sponsor: |
New Deal for East Manchester
and the European Social Fund (ESF) |
| Dates: |
May 2002 - December 2002 |
| Grant: |
£17,000 |
| Investigators: |
Carlo Raffo (Research Director),
Dave Hall, Helen Notman, Phil Frampton, Alan Farrier, Adanna Lazz-Onyenobi |
Evaluation
of the Certificate of School Business Managment (Bursar) Programme, Cohort
1
The prime objective of this project is to identify training practice that
assists the school business manager with supporting evidence of impact
and how this practice has evolved since the two pilot programmes (also
carried out by MID) in-line with suggested changes and recommendations.
| Sponsor: |
The National College of School Leadership |
| Dates: |
May 2003 - January 2004. |
| Investigators: |
Charlotte Woods (Director), with support
from CEL and CFAS. |
Centre for
Educational Leadership (CEL)
The Leading from the Middle Programme
is a leadership development programme for subject leaders in primary,
secondary and special schools. The programme is being developed by a partnership
of the BBC, London Leadership Centre and the Centre for Educational Leadership
(CEL). CEL is leading the design and development of this national programme
and currently manages a pilot programme involving 136 teachers and 59
leadership coaches in 59 schools in London and Manchester.
| Sponsor: |
The National College for School Leadership |
| Dates: |
The pilot programme began in November
2002 and will be completed in July 3003 |
| Grant: |
£800,000 for this stage of the
project |
| Investigators: |
Programme Director is Brendan Murden,
Director of CEL, who is supported by staff from the London and Manchester
Leadership Centres. |
The Centre
for Formative Assessment Studies (CFAS)
CFAS (Director, Bill Boyle) undertakes a range of national and international
research encompassing developments in assessment, monitoring of curriculum
implementation, and organisation and programme evaluation. Current CFAS
projects include:
- 2001-2003 - Longitudinal School Sampling Research Project,
which collects and analyses curriculum information at school and department
levels, and assessment data at pupil and question levels for the Qualifications
and Curriculum Authority (QCA). Grant: £285,000
- 2002 - Evaluation of educational provision for young
people (16-19) with disability in Birmingham and Solihull for the Learning
and Skills Council (LSC). Grant: £35,000
- 2001-2002 - Research (and development of this research)
into the reliability of literacy tests for Qualified Teacher Status
for Teacher Training Agency (TTA).
Grant: £52,000
- 2002 - National survey for the Qualifications and Curriculum
Authority (QCA) into provision for pre-school (Foundation Stage) pupils
in England. Grant: £12,000
- 2002 - Evaluation of the national key stage 1, 2 and
3 tests of English, mathematics and science for QCA. Grant: £26,000
- 2002 - Research into trends in teaching,
provision and resourcing in primary and secondary schools in England
from 1997-2002 for QCA
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