The FWF project ‘School Quality and Teacher Education’ (SQTE) conducts research on the historico-political, social and pedagogical factors of successful school quality development and school turnaround in England (1990-2020). Which policies and initiatives enabled school development? Which measures contributed to the compensation of social disadvantage in London and other regions of England, which received worldwide attention?
Findings from the study were presented at numerous national and international events.
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More than 30 publications have been published both in an academic context and in the field of school administration.
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The activities of the SQTE project were reported on in daily newspapers (print and online) as well as on television and radio.
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The project is partially located at the University of Oxford, Department of Education in the context of a Visiting Research Fellowship, for which the University of Oxford has generously provided an office and additional infrastructure in 2019 and 2020. Dr Bernhard’s principal collaborators in Oxford are Katharine Burn, Associate Professor in Education, and Pam Sammons, Professor of Education, who specialises in school effectiveness and improvement research. The project complies with the guidelines issued by the University of Oxford’s Central University Research Ethics Committee (CUREC), which has reviewed and approved it.
Until August 2021, the project was based at the School of Education at the University of Salzburg.
The project was led by Roland Bernhard . The main project partners at the University of Salzburg were Ulrike Greiner, then Head of the School of Education, and Burkhard Gniewosz, Professor of Educational Science.
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With the appointment of the project leader to the Chair of School Development & Leadership at the University College of Christian Churches of Teacher Education Vienna/Krems, the project moved to this institution in September 2021. The connection of the project with the KPH favours the dissemination of the project results in the practice of school management, education directorates and politics.