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15/04/2005
Major new research centre to open in Belfast
An innovative partnership between two leading educational institutions is to bring a major new research centre to Northern Ireland.
The 'NFER at Queen’s Centre for Educational Research', the result of a partnership between the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) and the Graduate School of Education at Queen’s University Belfast, brings together expertise in research, evaluation, teacher education and curriculum development.
The centre will conduct all types of educational research, but will especially focus on meeting the evidence needs of educational policymakers and practitioners in the Province.
The new centre of excellence aims to become the ‘one stop shop’ for high quality applied research and evaluation services for the educational community within Northern Ireland, and also seeks to contribute to the improvement of education and training regionally, nationally and internationally. One area of particular specialisation will be research on diversity and difference in education.
The formal launch of the NFER at Queen’s Centre for Educational Research, will take place at Malone House in Belfast next Tuesday.
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The 'NFER at Queen’s Centre for Educational Research', the result of a partnership between the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) and the Graduate School of Education at Queen’s University Belfast, brings together expertise in research, evaluation, teacher education and curriculum development.
The centre will conduct all types of educational research, but will especially focus on meeting the evidence needs of educational policymakers and practitioners in the Province.
The new centre of excellence aims to become the ‘one stop shop’ for high quality applied research and evaluation services for the educational community within Northern Ireland, and also seeks to contribute to the improvement of education and training regionally, nationally and internationally. One area of particular specialisation will be research on diversity and difference in education.
The formal launch of the NFER at Queen’s Centre for Educational Research, will take place at Malone House in Belfast next Tuesday.
(MB/GB)
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