Professor Leon Tikly

Research summary

• Director of Research Programme Consortium on Implementing Education Quality in Low Income Countries (DfID)
• Director of Evaluation of Aiming High: Raising African Caribbean Achievement Project (DfES)
• Globalisation and Skills for Development in Rwanda and Tanzania (DfID)
• Understanding the Needs of Mixed Heritage Pupils (DfES)
• State of the Art Literature Review on Globalisation and Education (DfID)
• Leadership and Change in Township and Rural Schools in South Africa (NRF)

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Biography

I am UNESCO Chair in Inclusive, Good Quality Education and Global Chair in Education at the University of Bristol. I also co-direct the Centre for International and Comparative Education (CIRE) in the School of Education. A key focus of my work is education in low income countries and in particular counries of sub-Saharan Africa. I am currently PI on a Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Network Plus entitled Transforming Education for Sustainable Futures (TESF) (ESRC £4.75 million; 2019-22). This includes partners in Rwanda, South Africa, India and Somalia/Somaliland as well as in the UK and the Netherlands ...

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Selected publications

• Sriprakash, A, Tikly, L & Walker, S, 2019, ‘The erasures of racism in education and international development: re-reading the ‘global learning crisis’’. Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education.
• Tikly, L, 2019, ‘Education for sustainable development in Africa: a critique of regional agendas’. Asia Pacific Education Review, vol 20., pp. 223-237

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