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MMU and Education
The Future of Knowledge
We Don’t Do It Alone.
We are very keen to hear from potential partners who are
interested in working with us to share expertise and knowledge.
If you would like to know more about any of the initiatives
showcased in this brochure then we will be happy to help.
Please call MMU’s External Relations team on 0161 247 2184.
Manchester Metropolitan University
Bellhouse Building, Lower Ormond Street, Manchester M15 6BX
Tel 0161 247 2184
Fax 0161 247 3424
Email academicenterprise@mmu.ac.uk
Visit www.mmu.ac.uk/academicenterprise
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“Education: the best
economic policy preparing
Britain for the future”
Rt. Hon Tony Blair MP, Trimdon Labour Club, Sedgfield, Apr 2005
MMU and Education MMU is:
• One of the largest teacher
MMU has built its reputation on the This work is complemented by training providers in
training and education of professionals extensive commercial and international Europe with 6000 students
in Manchester and the Northwest. MMU’s research collaborations.The University is
dynamic and enterprising approach to committed to delivering opportunities • An internationally
professional education reflects and achievement to all by promoting recognised centre for
Manchester’s status as the UK’s ‘creative a better understanding of how society
capital’ and supports strategic initiatives can overcome educational and
educational and
such as Manchester: Knowledge Capital social challenges. social research
and Manchester: Science City.
“In collaboration with our partners from • Home to the Science
With 6000 students, MMU is not only one local and central government and schools, Learning Centre North
of the UK’s largest providers of primary and MMU seeks to overcome the challenges in
West, part of a national
secondary teacher education, but also education today. The research undertaken
plays a significant role in developing the ensures practical benefit back into the DfES £51 million drive
wider workforce for children’s services communities and strategic benefit into to revolutionise
and helping improve young people’s life future policy formation” science teaching
chances. MMU has close partnerships with Professor Michael Totterdell, Director,
over 5000 of the region’s schools. Home to MMU Institute of Education • Raising the aspiration and
leading educational institutes and centres, attainment of inner city
MMU produces research with direct social MMU works with business, industry and
teachers and learners with
impact.The University works alongside the the professions at a regional and national
level and has a culture which seeks to the world-leading Centre
UK government on studies that shape
national policy in areas such as early maximise ‘academic enterprise’ – the for Urban Education
years education, the development of transfer of knowledge from university
classroom-based information technology to these sectors. • Boosting the quality of
and raising the professional standards leaders in Britain’s schools
of educators. through the Centre for
The University’s extensive CPD provision
Educational Leadership
reinforces MMU’s close relationship with
the professions and industry. With nearly
• Delivering Gordon Brown’s
60 different CPD routes available; flexibility vision for an enterprising
and diversity coupled with vitality and a Britain with the Enterprise
practical approach means that MMU is in Education programme
shaping the development of the 21st
century educational professional.
...Over 60% of MMU graduates live and work in the Northwest and directly impact on the social and economic wellbeing of the region...
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“MMU is one of the leading centres
for applied educational research
and evaluation in the UK”
Professor Harry Torrance, Director,
MMU Education and Social Research Institute
Educational Research
World Class Research Portfolio The framework comprises an introductory
booklet, video and CD Rom containing
A centre of excellence for applied
information on child development and
educational research, MMU achieved a four
guidance on resourcing and effective
rating in the Research Assessment Exercise.
practice.The pack was distributed
This thriving research community has
nationally to 300,000 educators and carers
extensive links to practitioners,
who are using the material to inform their
professionals and policy makers.
working practices and professional
In its contracted relationship with the
development.The Chair of the
region’s schools MMU is ideally placed to
government’s Education Select Committee
offer research partners access to an
praised the “outstanding contribution”
unrivalled piloting and testing facility
that the study had made.
across the Northwest. Recent research has
been funded by organisations such as the International Research Partnerships
DfES, the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation,
MMU has international research alliances
the ESRC, the European Union, Microsoft,
with global perspectives. Relationships
the Scottish Executive and Siemens.
with institutions in Australia, the US,
Birth to Three Matters South Africa, Taiwan and China strengthen
the exploration of professional and
The early experiences of children have a
cultural differences in education issues
critical effect on their subsequent
and practice.
development. MMU’s Early Years, Language
and Literacy Group working at
Government Select Committee level was
commissioned by the DfES to develop a
framework to support practitioners
working on the Birth to Three agenda.
…MMU is pursuing innovative approaches to the teaching and learning of mathematics in two projects funded by the ESRC and the Gatsby Foundation…
05
“Science City…a concerted
mission to invest long-term
and establish world leadership
in Science Education”
Rt. Hon Gordon Brown MP, speaking at the launch of the
National Science City Programme, Dec 2004
Science Education
Science Learning and the inspirational workshops and refresher
Knowledge Economy courses run in partnership with leading
science institutions such as Nowgen,
Chancellor Gordon Brown has set out an
AstraZeneca and the Museum of Science
ambitious plan to transform the UK from a
and Industry.
service to a knowledge economy by 2015.
UK science education has been in decline “I believe that the Centre will become
in recent years with both students and a vital hub for many science-related
teachers opting out of science routes and activities in the region and will
investment levels falling. In order to realise thrive within Manchester
the government’s ambitious targets it is Metropolitan University”
now imperative that the UK engages young Professor Sir Gareth Roberts, Chair,
people in science and secures the future of The Science Council
hi-tech knowledge-based industries.
The state-of-the-art £2.2 million hub,
Inspiring Tomorrow’s Scientists funded by the Wellcome Trust and the
MMU’s Science Learning Centre North West DfES, provides over 1,500 training days
is doing this. Part of a national drive to a year to help teachers to inspire their
boost science teaching in Britain’s schools students with the awe and wonder
and increase the number of young people of science.
entering science-related careers, the Centre “I was able to go back into the classroom
offers unique courses such as ‘Running a feeling really up to date and itching to put
Space Camp at your School’ and ‘Teaching some of my new approaches and
Primary Science Using Shadow Puppetry’. experiments into practice”
The Centre is revolutionising approaches to
Kathy Griffin, Science Teacher,
the science curriculum. Science teachers
Castlebrook High
across the region are benefiting from
…Manchester is one of the UK’s ‘Science Cities’– an ambitious programme unveiled by Gordon Brown to unlock new opportunities and tackle ‘real world’issues...
“Effective school leadership 07
is at the heart of improved
performance by schools”
Ruth Kelly MP, Secretary of State for Education and Skills, NCSL, Dec 2004
Developing Tomorrow’s
Leaders in Education
MMU is helping improve school programme, over 2500 bursars have been
performance by developing current and transformed into School Business
future leaders in education.The Centre for Managers, with Certificate and Diploma
Educational Leadership (CEL) at MMU accreditation from the Institute of
Cheshire provides leadership and Administrative Management. Recent
management training for educational research indicates this training has
professionals of all levels of seniority. Over significant impact in schools, with average
2000 regional participants have benefited savings of £50,000 per school and extra
from attending training. revenue generated – in one school alone
this reached £1.4 million.
CEL manages the Bursar Development
Programme for the DfES.Through this
Urban Education
“Doing well in The Centre for Urban Education is an
innovative partnership between MMU and
provision includes networking sessions
and events that bring teachers together
Manchester City Council established to to share best practice and valuable
education is respond to the difficulties facing teachers
and learners in challenging inner city
experiences.The networking provides
a valuable support mechanism to teachers
the most environments. Urban schools face a
particular set of social and economic
in difficult inner city schools.
The Centre for Urban Education also
effective route problems.The Centre’s aim is to tackle the
high turnover of urban teachers and pupils
partners with the region’s schools on
projects that address the needs of
and improve attainment rates amongst the
for young most disadvantaged children in poorer
urban areas.
disadvantaged youngsters.The Schools
2 Uni programme showcases the benefits
people out of Boosting Aspiration Levels
of university to children from some of
the region’s most deprived areas and
aims to increase the confidence of
poverty and The Centre for Urban Education is there
to help ensure that Manchester’s young
underprivileged learners.
disaffection” people receive the highest possible
standard of education.The Centre
International Agenda
Urban education is an international
supports inner city teachers by running
Every Child Matters: Change for challenge and the Centre brings together
an innovative MA course in urban
Children in Schools, DfES 2004 a community of world cities to pool
education at the newly formed Manchester
knowledge on these issues. A network
Teacher Learning Academy.The Academy
exists with institutions in Boston, Hong
offers a distinctive programme of
Kong, Kaohsiung, Melbourne and
study and research for teachers in a
Philadelphia.The network was launched by
multi-professional context centred in the
the Centre for Urban Education in
urban environment. Part of the Centre’s
Manchester in 2005.
…MMU’s Centre for Urban Education hosted the first-ever world conference on inner city education, sharing knowledge and expertise with partners from across the globe…
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“It is human creativity,
resilience and enterprise that
shapes our quality of life and
fuels the economy. The next
generation needs to learn how
to succeed, not merely survive,
in a world of opportunity
and dramatic change”
Developing Enterprise Talent Through Education,
The Enterprise Report 2005, Enterprise Insight
An Enterprising Britain
Government sees the promotion and Leaders in the field, the Enterprise
support of entrepreneurial learning as an Education team has recruited over 550
economic and educational imperative.The scholars onto the Continuing Professional
Enterprise in Education project at MMU, Development programme, accrediting
supported by the Northwest Regional teachers and ‘mainstreaming’
Development Agency, works to inspire and entrepreneurship into the curriculum.
help people to be more enterprising, The programme is currently being
become entrepreneurs and to promote pioneered in 80 of the region’s schools that
innovation and creativity. It does this by use the experience in ventures such as a
supporting and advising teachers in Market Garden Project, an Enterprise Circus
primary schools, secondary schools and and a School Choir CD project.The project
FE colleges.This work helps to realise team has developed the world’s first
Gordon Brown’s vision for a more enterprise education curriculum
enterprising Britain by developing the framework as featured in The Times.
business executives and public sector A series of books is underway and the
leaders of tomorrow.The programme also initiative continues to break new ground
shares valuable skills amongst teachers and in this exciting policy area.
pupils; skills that encourage creativity
and more effective learning.
...MMU’s team pioneered the UK’s first practical enterprise education framework...
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