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Centre for International Education and Research (CIER)‎

The Centre for International Education and Research (CIER) is based at the ‎University of Birmingham, UK. It emerged in the 1960s, training teachers ‎and ministry staff from the British Commonwealth, and British educationists ‎with international interests. While collaborating with the British Council, it ‎became known as the International Unit. Since then, it has attracted ‎students from most parts of the world, in particular East Asia, Middle East, ‎Europe, Africa and South America. To reflect the broadening scope of its ‎work, the name was changed in 1996. ‎

The Centre now runs an ‘International Studies in Education’ programme, at ‎masters and PhD levels. Around the theme of ‘Educating for Global Justice’, ‎its research and teaching interests include: Human security, conflict and ‎emergencies; Global citizenship; International development; Democracy; ‎Marginalised groups, inclusion and SEN, and university internationalisation.‎

CIER is part of the UNESCO Associated Schools Network. It helped to set up ‎the British University in Dubai (BUID), and has formal links with Ontario ‎Institute of Education (OISE), University of Toronto; Deshkal Society, Delhi; ‎the Gambia Youth Movement for Peace and Unity in Africa; and the UNESCO ‎Asia-Pacific Centre of Education for International Understanding (APCIEU) in ‎Seoul. ‎