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Cambridge and India

Education

The Faculty of Education at Cambridge is the foremost in the UK, training teachers and carrying out research into the way people learn: this research informs educational policy around the world.

The Centre for Commonwealth Education (CCE) is a collaboration between the national Commonwealth Institute and the University set up to serve educational needs right across the Commonwealth.

The Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes and Poverty (RECOUP) examines the cycle of deprivation evident in some of the world's poorest communities. Institutions within four Commonwealth countries currently partner Cambridge: Ghana, Kenya, India and Pakistan.

Professor Robin Alexander
Faculty of Education

Robin Alexander is Director of the Cambridge Primary Review, Fellow of Wolfson College at the University of Cambridge and Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Warwick. Educated at the universities of Cambridge, Durham, London and Manchester, he has taught in schools, colleges and universities, has served on government advisory bodies and national enquiries in the UK, and has undertaken research, evaluation and consultancy in several other countries. India is one of the five countries in Robin Alexander's Culture and Pedagogy research programme and he has worked there for a part of almost every year since 1994. Alongside this research Alexander has provided technical consultancy in support of the Government of India's District Primary Education Programme (DPEP) and Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) reform initiatives, which have aimed to universalise primary (5-11) and currently upper primary (11-14) education.

India links: has visited and worked in schools and NGOs in Delhi and the states of Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh. Has been a regular visitor to India's apex educational research and development institute, the National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) in Delhi.
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Professor Christopher Colclough
Centre for Education and International Development, Faculty of Education

Christopher Colclough is Commonwealth Professor of Education and Development at Cambridge University and Director of the newly established Centre for Education and International Development within the Faculty of Education. A development economist, he has published extensively on problems of human resources and development in low and middle-income countries. His research has been concentrated in the economics of education in developing countries; education planning and reform in Africa and Asia; gender and schooling in Africa; development theory and adjustment strategy.

Expertise: economics and education policy; advised UNICEF, UNESCO, Rockefeller Foundation, World Bank, DFID and other agencies.

India links: Director of RECOUP, research partnership looking at role of education in reducing poverty in India and other countries.
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Dr Shailaja Fennell
Department of Land Economy

Shailaja Fennell is a University Lecturer in Development Studies attached to the Department of Land Economy and a Fellow of Jesus College. Shailaja's research interests include institutional economics, agricultural reform, gender and household dynamics, kinship and ethnicity, comparative economic development, educational provision and partnerships.

India links: contributing to RECOUP by looking at the extent and types of private-public partnerships to understand influence of new education providers.
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Dr Nidhi Singal
Faculty of Education

Dr Singal is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Education and Fellow of Hughes Hall. Nidhi's research interests are in the areas of inclusive education and special education needs, focusing particularly on issues of disabilities, poverty and teacher development.
She is the international team leader for the Disability, Education and Poverty Project (DEPP) which is part of the Research Consortium on Educational Outcomes and Poverty (RECOUP) based at the Centre for Education and International Development, Cambridge.

India links: has links to the University of Delhi and the National University of Educational Planning and Administration (Delhi), and is a Research consultant for the National Council of Educational Research and Training (Delhi) and World Vision (India).
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