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

Leon is Director of a DfID funded Research Programme Consortium (RPC) on Implementing Education Quality in Low Income Countries (EdQual) (http://www.edqual.org).  The consortium includes partners based in the UK, Africa, South Asia and Latin America.  He is also currently directing an evaluation of the UK government's Aiming High: Raising African Caribbean Achievement project; is involved in a state of the art literature review on globalisation and education with colleagues in the GSoE; and, on a project looking at leadership and the management of change in rural and township schools in South Africa.

Leon started his career ...

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Selected publications

• Smith, MC, Tikly, LP & Barrett, AM. ‘School effectiveness and education quality in Southern and East African Countries’, 2012
• Tikly, LP & Barrett, AM. ‘Negotiating the Contested Terrain of Education Quality: implications for policy, practice and research’, in Tikly, L. & Barrett, A (Ed.), Education Quality and Social Justice in the Global South: Challenges for Policy, Practice and Research (Education, Poverty and International Development), 2012. ISBN: 0415603544

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Selected conference contributions

• Tikly, LP. ‘Globalisation, Social Justice and the Quality of Education in Africa’, Knowledge 2011 Conference, Pavilion Centre, Cape Town 28-31 March 2011, 2011
• Tikly, LP. ‘Human Capabilities, Social Justice and the Challenges of Researching the Quality of Education in Low Income Countries’, 55th CIES Conference, May 1-5 Montreal, Canada, 2011

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