Research Center for Lifelong Learning and Education at CELE celebrates it 20th anniversary. The anniversary year is opened on 2nd September 2021 with a lecture on Education Gone Global - The Expanding Global Education Industry by a visiting professor Marcelo Parreira do Amaral.
While the policy discourses of internationalisation of higher education at systematic level are relatively recent, there is nothing new about its practices. Internationally acclaimed professor Fazal Rizvi started his two year term (2019-2020) as a visiting professor at the Centre for Research on Lifelong Learning and Education, and spoke about neoliberal rationality and the internationalization of higher education on his opening lecture.
The work of the researchers of CELE is organized by the ongoing research projects.
CELE is home to multidisciplinary and comparative research on lifelong learning and education.
Professor Martin Thrupp spoke at the Department of Education about a New Zealand primary school assessment policy called National Standards which was first announced in 2007 and was expected to improve the achievement of children. According to Thrupp, the policy has been a failure in many ways.
The publication discusses the comparative educational research in the Nordic countries.