WELCOME

We are very excited to release the second, edition of Leadership Connections, UCL Centre for Educational Leadership’s (UCL CEL) annual magazine.

The publication fits within UCL’s connected learning mission, centred around our shared passion for educational leadership. This is an exciting year for the IOE, which is celebrating 120 years since its foundation. As part of this I wrote a blog about one decade within this period called A leader of leaders in a time of recognition and pressure, 2002-12. This charts important educational leadership issues through this decade and the role, and present day for UCL CEL.

In this second edition we have an exciting range of content created by our team of staff, students and alumni aimed at connecting students with each other, students with the Centre, Department, and UCL IOE.

Below you will see a short leadership article written by one of our MA alumni, looking at the potential for school-to-school collaboration in the Armenian context.

Following that we have two interviews of CEL staff conducted by present MA students, one of Hilary Adli and another of Dr Rupert Higham. These discuss the early career framework (ECF and ethical leadership respectively. We also have two country profiles, one about school improvement in Bahrain and a further one looking at the post-covid challenges for education in Chile.

Following this we have three pieces looking at where our past MA students have got to since they graduated and some reflections on their experiences studying with us. We then have news from UCL IOE, the Department and the Centre, including some exciting (free) webinars at the IOE that will be of interest to many and open to all. Look out for the description of our present Educational Leadership programmes too – places still available for 2023!

We hope you enjoy this second edition.

Dr David Godfrey

Centre Academic Programmes Leader David.Godfrey@ucl.ac.uk