Md. Maksud Ali, M. Obaidul Hamid, Ian Hardy
Although use of high-stakes tests is common across developing societies, very little is known about how these tests are designed, what principles and criteria guide test construction, and what factors influence this process. The present study investigates the development of the English Paper-1 test ...
Rino Wiseman Adhikary, Bob Lingard, Ian Hardy
In this paper, we examine how Teach for Bangladesh (TfB) has utilised Facebook since 2012 in its effort to extend its policy influence and message to young Bangladeshi graduates and local population. We reveal this as an example of how Facebook has become a powerful new platform for policy mediatisa...
Md. Maksud Ali, M. Obaidul Hamid, Ian Hardy
The discourse of English Language Teaching (ELT) development aid for the Global South has undergone significant changes since its introduction in the post-WWII period. Specifically, in the contemporary context of globalisation, both the aim and operation of ELT aid exhibit the influence of neolibera...
Md. Maksud Ali, M. Obaidul Hamid, Ian Hardy, Mutiba Khan
This article draws on a framework based on Bernstein’s three-message systems of schooling and Ball’s notion of policy cycle to examine how the human capital development goal incorporated into the Bangladesh secondary English curriculum has been translated into pedagogy and assessment practices. Data...
Lydia A. Schoenpflug, Aikaterini Chatzipli, Korsuk Sirinukunwattana, Susan D. Richman et al.
Tumour content plays a pivotal role in directing the bioinformatic analysis of molecular profiles such as copy number variation (CNV). In clinical application, tumour purity estimation (TPE) is achieved either through visual pathological review [conventional pathology (CP)] or the deconvolution of m...
Achala Gupta
Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Additional informationNotes on contributorsAchala GuptaDr Achala Gupta is a lecturer at the Southampton Education School, University of Southampton. Her research ...
Vicente Reyes, Louise Gwenneth Phillips, M. Obaidul Hamid, Ian Hardy
We draw upon Appadurai’s ‘scapes’ and Latour’s Actor Network Theory (ANT) to interrogate historical and spatial flows in relation to specific testing technologies. We reveal how testing systems, conceptualised as actor-networks, rearticulate colonial legacies of inequality which are intensified by n...
Ian Hardy, Louise Gwenneth Phillips, Vicente Reyes, M. Obaidul Hamid
In this article, we contest globalised notions of data as ‘universally’ beneficial, necessary and ‘evidence-based’. We do so by drawing upon narrative accounts of the problematic ways data impact educators researching and working in university and schooling settings over time and in varied national ...
Rino Wiseman Adhikary, Ian Hardy, Bob Lingard
This article illustrates how the British Council Bangladesh (BCB) made use of panel discussions and commissioned research as policy vehicles to persuade the government of Bangladesh of the value of social enterprises for public service delivery, including in education. Drawing upon Appadurai’s notio...
Claire S. Teitelbaum, Diann J. Prosser, Joshua T. Ackerman, Sakib Ahmed et al.
Animal movements contribute to the spread of infectious diseases and are driven in part by environmental conditions. We investigated the links among the environment, animal movement, and infectious disease dynamics in waterfowl, which are among the primary wildlife hosts of avian influenza viruses. ...
Ian Hardy, M. Obaidul Hamid, Vicente Reyes, Louise Gwenneth Phillips
Inadequate attention has been given to the nature and effects of testing on schooling in Bangladesh in research literature to date. In particular, there has been insufficient regard for the emotional or ‘affective’ impact of testing practices on students, educators and parents. We illustrate how the...
Md. Maksud Ali, Ian Hardy, M. Obaidul Hamid, Bob Lingard
English language education (ELE) in the Global South has experienced substantial policy reforms for human capital development to take advantage of the opportunities and address the challenges associated with economic globalization.However, ELE research has paid little attention to how global policy ...
Rino Wiseman Adhikary, Bob Lingard, Ian Hardy
<JATS1:p>Set against the backdrop of globalization and global philanthropy, this book offers new perspectives on the sociological dynamics and governance implications of ‘social entrepreneurial’ policy in education. It examines the spatialities, relationships and culture that powerfully mediated the...
M. Maksud Ali, M. Obaidul Hamid, Ian Hardy
Although contemporary language-in-education policy (LEP) in developing societies often represents English as a panacea for poverty and a key tool for empowering people from socioeconomic disadvantage, not much is known about how this development potential unfolds for disenfranchised people. Motivate...
Taylor Delhagen, Madhu Narayanan
Global-national networks in education policy: primary education, social enterprises and ‘Teach for Bangladesh’ by Rino Wiseman Adhikary, Bob Lingard and Ian Hardy, London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2023, 220 pp., £95.00 (hardback), ISBN 9781350169180
Susann Power, Weir Jonny, Stephen Mcgilloway, Bronagh Millar et al.
About<br/>Green Transition Ecosystems (GTEs) are major initiatives funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in collaboration with the Design Museum’s Future Observatory. These projects focus on translating design-led research into practical, real-world applications. GTEs integrate...
Ali, Maksud; id_orcid 0000-0002-4449-8061, Hardy, Ian
In this post, Maksud Ali, Obaidul Hamid & Ian Hardy from the University of Queensland, discuss their recent paper ‘Ritualisation of testing: problematising high-stakes English-language testing in Bangladesh‘, published in COMPARE, 2020 (vol 50, Issue 4).
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