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Westminster Institute of Education,
Harcourt Hill Campus,
Oxford OX2 9AT

The Westminster Institute’s Consultancy and Development Unit (CANDU) leads and manages its knowledge transfer activities alongside the Institute’s accredited CPD programme. It offers support and advice to LEAs, schools, colleges, other educational organisations and government bodies through a range of consultancy and research services, which include:

• Staff development courses and materials
• Presentations, key-notes and workshops
• Policy and guidance materials
• Project and planning support
• Coaching and mentoring
• Research and evaluation projects
• Conferences, seminars, study days

We work with individual schools, groups of schools, LEAs and other organisations to define the services which will best meet their needs.

Expertise
The Westminster Institute of Education has key areas of research and consultancy focus in:

• Gifted and talented education
• Inclusive and special education
• Professional learning
• Communication and language in learning

The Institute of Education also has considerable expertise across a range of curriculum areas and age phases and in those which are a current focus for schools and colleges, such as:

• Coaching and mentoring
• Early years development
• The use of learning technologies
• Leadership and management development
• Thinking and creativity in the curriculum
• The 14-19 curriculum
• Teaching, learning and assessment
• Peer mediation and conflict resolution
• English language training

The Institute hosts a number of major government, LEA and charitable trust funded research and consultancy projects and recent work undertaken by Institute staff has included:

• An evaluation of a school based enrichment programme
• The design and delivery of a national CPD programme for the DFES for Gifted and Talented Co-ordinators
• The delivery of a pre-inspection course to a large FE college
• The preparation of a bid for Leading Edge School status
• The production of a policy and guidance document for an LEA
• The delivery of training on able pupils to Ofsted inspectors
• The development of a programme for Learning Support Assistants
• The development of materials for able young scientists and related CPD for teachers
• The design and dissemination of training materials for the Teacher Training Agency

Further information

For information about consultancy services, please contact:

The Administrator
Consultancy and Development Unit
Westminster Institute of Education
Oxford Brookes University
Harcourt Hill Campus
Oxford OX2 9AT

e- mail: wiecandu@brookes.ac.uk