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UKFIET Conference 2013
12th UKFIET International Conference on Education and Development
Education and Development Post 2015
Reflecting, Reviewing, Re-visioning
10-12 September, 2013
University of Oxford, UK
Conference website
www.ukfiet.org/conference
Key Dates:
Online conference registration opens: Early January 2013
Conference Convenor
Terra Sprague
The hidden crisis: Armed conflict and education
Global monitoring report
The 2011 Education for All Global Monitoring Report warns that armed conflict is robbing 28 million children of an education by exposing them to widespread sexual violence, targeted attacks on schools and other abuses.
Management
UKFIET is managed by trustees, elected officers and an executive committee of representatives from member organisations. The annual general meeting takes place in September.
Members of the Executive Committee met on 14th March 2012 with the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development - Stephen O'Brien MP to seek the minister's advice and support. Download the summary of the meeting.
Board of Trustees
| Desmond Bermingham (Chair of Trustees) | Director, Global Education Initiative, Save the Children International. Senior consultant to Results for Development Institute, Washington DC. Member of World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Education. Visiting Research Fellow, Oxford University; Former Head of the Secretariat for the Education for All, Fast Track Initiative, World Bank; Former Head of Profession, Education, UK Department for International Development (DFID). |
| Peter Williams OBE (Deputy Chair) | Hon Sec Commonwealth Consortium for Education. Former Director, Human Resource Development Division, Commonwealth Secretariat; Professor of Education in Developing Countries, Institute of Education, London; has served on national education commissions in Africa; co-founder of UKFIET. |
| David Theobald, OBE (Hon Treasurer) | Independent consultant. Former Senior Specialist with the British Council, with experience in consultancy and project management in India and Sub-Saharan Africa. Former Chair of UKFIET. |
| Professor Angela Little, AcSS | Professor of Education and International Development at the Institute of Education, University of London and a member of the Academy of Social Sciences. |
| Professor Kenneth King | Professor of International and Comparative Education, Centre of African Studies School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh. Previous Chair and Deputy Chair of UKFIET. Former Chair of UKFIET. |
| Professor Christopher Colclough |
Commonwealth Professor of Education and Development and Director, Centre for Education and International Development, University of Cambridge. Former Chair of UKFIET. |
| Professor Michael Crossley, AcSS | Professor of International and Comparative Education at the University of Bristol. Former Chair of BAICE. Current editor of Comparative Education. |
| Janet Greenland | Chair of Jeremy Greenland Bursary Trust. |
Executive Committee
| Professor Hugh Lauder (Chair) | Professor of Education and Political Economy, University of Bath; former Dean of Education at Victoria University of Wellington. Has led major research projects and published widely on education and the economy. Editor of the Journal of Education and Work. |
| Steve Packer (Deputy Chair) | Independent consultant for education sector planning and analysis and evaluation of education aid programmes. Former posts include: Deputy Director of UNESCO's EFA Global Monitoring Report, Head of Education Policy at DFID and education adviser to the Commonwealth Secretariat . |
| David Theobald (Treasurer) | Independent consultant. Former Senior Specialist with the British Council, with experience in consultancy and project management in India and Sub-Saharan Africa. Former Chair of UKFIET. |
| Dr Karen Edge | Dr. Karen Edge is a Senior Lecturer of Education Leadership at the Institute of Education-London. Karen¹s research, teaching and consulting explore issues of leadership, educational change, knowledge management, partnership, innovation, organizational improvement and international development. Karen is an editorial board member of School Leadership and Management and Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability. |
| Dr Lore Arthur (GMR Colloquium) | Formerly chair of the British Association of International and Comparative Education (BAICE). Former senior lecturer at the Open University’s Centre for Educational Policy, Leadership and Lifelong Learning. |
| Professor Simon McGarth | Simon McGrath is Professor of International Education and Development at the University of Nottingham and the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Educational Development. He researches into the relationship between education and development, particularly in the area of skills development and aid policy, and in the Southern Africa region. |
| Freda Wolfenden | Freda is Senior Lecturer in Education and Development in the Faculty of Education and Language Studies at the Open University, UK where she currently holds the post of Associate Dean for Curriculum. Her specialist area is international teacher education and since 2008 Freda has directed the Teacher Education in Sub Saharan Africa (TESSA) programme of activities. TESSA is a Research and Development programme, led by the Open University, UK, working closely with a large number of African and international partners to seek to improve teacher quality in ten countries. |
| Dr Tristan McCowan | Dr Tristan McCowan is Senior Lecturer in Education and International Development at the Institute of Education, University of London; his research focuses on higher education, educational rights and citizenship, principally in Latin America. |
| Terra Sprague |
Research Fellow at the University of Bristol's Research Centre for International and Comparative Studies and Education in Small States Research Group. http://bristol.ac.uk/education/people/person/tera-l-sprague/overview.html |
| Claire Drake (Programme Manager) | Currently working as a Research Support Administrator at the University of Bath, and as Editorial Assistant on five Education journals. |
| Rajee Rajagopalan (Secretary) | Currently working as a voluntary teacher's assistant in a local primary school and formerly worked as an administrator of the International Development Unit at the Institute of Education, University of London. |
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Journals
Journal of Comparative and International Education
International Journal of Educational Development
