Cognition Features at Leading Internatl Conference

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Cognition Consulting to Feature at Leading International Conference

NEW ZEALAND, Tuesday, 29 May 2007: Cognition Consulting Limited is set to take its place alongside other leading international educational consultancies and academic institutions at the British Educational Research (BERA) Conference, held at the Institute of Education (IoE), University of London, 3 to 8 September, 2007.

Cognition Consultant, Dr. Lorrae Ward, will present a research paper on ‘The impact of Teacher Leadership on Professional Practice and Schools’ at the conference and will address attendees at the conference about the implications of Cognition Consulting’s work. This is testimony to the reputation Cognition Consulting has created on the global stage since launching last year and Dr. Lorrae is one of only a handful of New Zealand consultants presenting at the conference, which will attract thousands of delegates.

“In New Zealand teachers are given leadership roles to initiate change but it’s an area fraught with difficulty because they often don’t like being seen as leaders over their peers and have issues securing the necessary authority to get things done,” she says.

“The paper I’ll be presenting will highlight some of the ways this can be addressed and the implications it has for other educational systems around the world. It will also reaffirm Cognition Consulting’s strong position as a leader within the education sector,” she adds.

BERA is committed to promoting high quality research and the understanding and improvement of education. Dr. Lorrae Ward will lineup alongside key note speakers such as Herbert W Marsh, from the University of Oxford, who will speak on ‘Self-Concept: Theory, Measurement and Multi-method Quantitative Research into Practice’.
Other keynote speakers include Stephen Ball, from the Institute of Education, University of London, on ‘Privatising Education, Privatizing Education Policy, Privatising Educational Research’ and Susan Groundwater-Smith, from the Universities of Sydney and Liverpool Hope, who will present an address on ‘Practitioner Researchers: Today's Children of Mother Courage’.

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About Cognition Consulting: Cognition Consulting provides education consulting services to meet individual client needs in markets around the world. It was launched in August 2006 as a subsidiary company of Multi Serve Education Trust, which has been in operation since 1989 and functions as a Charitable Trust. The consulting business operations of Multi Serve will be assigned or subcontracted to Cognition Consulting which will become New Zealand’s largest independent supplier of consulting services to the global education community including new school establishment projects, policy development and review, professional development, coaching and mentoring, evaluation and development, executive recruitment and financial consulting. Cognition Consulting’s services assist governments and educators to undertake significant educational reform projects and improve educational outcomes.

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