Education Media Centre – Enhancing the use of evidence in the media

Liaising with the press

The Coalition for Evidence-based Education (CEBE) is currently piloting an Education Media Centre - a new initiative that aims to make education research more accessible to the media and policy makers and so improve policy development, practice and public understanding of education. It will provide users with authoritative, independent and accessible insights from education research in response to current research and policy developments.

Read more on what the EMC will do....

 

  *Latest Updates*

 

EMC Briefing Event

At the end of last year we held a briefing event in parliament on the proposals for the EMC.

There was widespread and enthusiastic support for the EMC at this event, from many different individuals and organisations – all with a commitment to improving the understanding of education.

 In case you missed it here is a video of the evening's presentations:

 

Education Media Centre - briefing event from Jonathan Sharples on Vimeo.

Individual speeches can be viewed at the following times:

Estelle Morris (EMC Patron) - 0m ; Sue Littlemore (Journalist) - 7m45s;  Fiona Fox (Director, Science Media Centre) - 14m30s; Jonathan Sharples (Institute for Effective Education) - 24m42s; Chris Jones (CEO, City & Guilds) - 32m10s 

Here are some endorsements by patrons of the EMC - Mike Baker (BBC), Lord Willis, Nick Pearce (IPPR) and John Dunford (Whole Education):

Endorsements by patrons of the EMC from Jonathan Sharples on Vimeo.

 

New EMC Business Plan

The development team has produced a full business plan that sets out many of the practical issues for the EMC - with details on initial services, governance, funding models, timeline etc.

We are currently discussing sponsorship with six organisations, but in order to protect the EMC`s independence and impartiality we aim to spread the cost amongst 10 to 20 sponsors.

Please get in touch  with any ideas for individuals and organisations who would be interested in the aims of the EMC and might consider becoming a founding sponsor. There is a team of us who are more than happy to meet with interested parties face-to-face and discuss the EMC plans.