Australia | New Zealand | Singapore

Asia-Pacific (multiple country organisations)

Asia-Pacific Educational Research Association (APERA) is one of the group of national research organizations which are exploring ways of deepening international liaison to promote educational research, TLRP is contributing to this process as part of its commitment to knowledge accumulation across the world.

TLRP is hoping to arrange a joint event with APERA during 2008.

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Australia

The Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) is one of the group of national research organizations which are exploring ways of deepening international liaison to promote educational research, TLRP is contributing to this process as part of its commitment to knowledge accumulation across the world.
http://www.aare.edu.au/index.htm

Andrew Pollard and Mary James represented BERA at the November 2006 conference of the Australian Association for Research in Education. Meeting in Adelaide on the theme of ‘Engaging Pedagogies’, the event brought together researchers from across Australia and the region.

The BERA TLRP session was attended by members of the Australian Research Directors’ Network and there was lively discussion of the Programme’s commitment to research quality and impact – issues which are important in Australia in the context of the Research Quality Framework (RQF) for research assessment and funding, details of which have recently been announced.

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New Zealand

In December 2006 TLRP Directors Professors Andrew Pollard and Mary James met with colleagues from the New Zealand Council for Educational Research (NZER), the Ministry of Education and a number of local universities.

There was particular interest in TLRP because of New Zealand’s own Teaching and Learning Research Initiative (TLRI). Having succeeded in its project-development phase TLRI is considering a new thematic strategy and there are a number of similarities between the programmes. The TLRP Commentary on Teaching and Learning, offering ten synoptic ‘principles’, was considered and the research development strategies used by TLRP were discussed at length both at the seminar and in later detailed talks.

Among the colleagues attending these talks were Robyn Baker, Director of NZCER and TLRI, and Lynne Whitney from the NZ Ministry of Education.

TLRP has particular links to the University of Waikato School of Educational Research where the Dean has encouraged liaison opportunities which it is hoped that TLRP teams will take up in future.

Images provided by The UC Atlas of Global Inequality

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