United Kingdom Forum for International Education and Training
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United Kingdom Forum for International Education and Training
 
UKFIET
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Forthcoming Event:

11th UKFIET International Conference on Education and Development

13th-15thSeptember 2011

 
Management and Contacts
 
UKFIET is managed by trustees, elected officers and an executive committee of representatives from member organisations. The annual general meeting takes place in September.
 

Board of Trustees

 

Dr Rosemary Preston, AcSS (Chair of Board of Trustees) Former Director, International Centre for Education in Development, University of Warwick; Honorary Life Member, BAICE; Trustee, Council for Education in the Commonwealth; former editor of Gender and Education and Compare.
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.
Dr Felicity Binns (Hon. Secretary) Operations Manager at Cambridge Education and Honorary Fellow of the Commonwealth of Learning. Education and consultancy experience, particularly in Africa.
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 Professor and Director of the Centre for Commonwealth Education at the University of Cambridge. Previous Chair and Deputy Chair of UKFIET. 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.
Dr Moses Oketch Senior Lecturer in Educational Planning and International Development, Institute of Education, University of London.

 

Executive Officers

 

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 .
Jo Heslop (Membership Secretary) Research Officer at the Institute of Education, University of London, working on international research projects on girls' education in Africa.
Jawaad Vohra (Finance Officer) Education Adviser at Cambridge Education, specialising in Education Finance and Economics of Education. Has worked with several aid donors, providing technical assistance to central and local governments.
 
For more information please contact UKFIET Secretary Jo Heslop (j.heslop@ioe.ac.uk).