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Centre for Education Policy in Practice (EPIP)

The role of the Centre is to research:

• the implications of government policy with particular reference to the previous government’s Every Child Matters agenda
• the impact of the new reforms, not only in the field of education and social care, but more generally in terms of economic and social policy, local governance, the role of the citizen, and working with local communities
• the way in which the university should respond
• the implications for the curriculum
• the types of wider partnerships which would be needed with a range of other organisations
• the impact of the changes on children, young people and families.

Introduction by Richard Parker, Director of EPIP

Key principles:

• challenging inequalities and deprivation
• promoting the participation and involvement of children, young people and learners
• using the research strengths of the university to provide support and development for those actually confronting the realities of implementing policies.

Key areas of interest:

Education and Social Policy – maintaining an overview of developments, ensuring that their implications are swiftly disseminated and evaluated across all partnerships

Partnership working, within the university, between the university and other stakeholders and particularly between schools and other agencies

Research, including securing external funding, to enable a wide range of partners to contribute to developing knowledge

Contributing to teaching and other development programmes

Employability – ensuring that the university offers as wide an access as possible to its programmes, recruits effectively from all sectors of the community, gives a wide range of opportunities within its education courses, especially in Education Studies, provides good support to its students in finding employment within the Children’s Workforce, and maintains links with partners and former students to provide opportunities for further progression and career development.

Governance

EPIP Operational Management Group
Virtual Reference Group

For more information or informal discussion about EPIP please contact:

Richard Parker, Director of EPIP,
School of Education,
Bath Spa University,
Newton Park,
Bath, BA2 9BN.

r.parker@bathspa.ac.uk