The Stirling Institute of Education
Knowledge Transfer
The Stirling Institute of Education has high standing within professional organisations, networks, and partnerships through which it seeks to promote understandings at the forefront of research and policy agendas as part of its commitment to knowledge transfer. These understandings are focused upon:
- school education through the Applied Educational Research Scheme (AERS);
- promoting the teaching of modern languages through the Scottish Centre for Information on Language Teaching;
- the development and management of learning regions, through an international reseach and policy alliance between The Stirling Institute of Education and RMIT University in Australia, and natoinal and local governments in the UK and Australia. This is the PASCAL project.
- participation, inclusion and equity issues in social policy, through the PIER Network;
- the production and dissemination of resources for staff and students in Higher Education and Further Education involved in Education Studies, Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning and Initial Teacher Education, in partnership with the universities of Bristol and St Martin's College (ESCalate partnership);
- extending professional knowledge and practice through a Professional Enquiry Partnership consisting of local authority CPD co-ordinators, Chartered Teachers, graduates of professional programmes and staff of The Stirling Institute of Education.
